Samsung Files Patent for Double-sided Tablet

[wing2010]

One hand for the front screen, one hand for the back, and you need a third one to hold the device, IMO...

 

[feeddagoat]

I would worry about damaging the bottom screen when I set it down. Novel Idea but I can see this being a pain with mistaken gestures since most people hold the table at the bottom.

 

[AndrewMD]

I love the narrow minded comments for this device... well I guess if Apple were to patent this, everyone would be saying that is the coolest thing ever!

 

[tayb]

I seem to remember reading this exact same article months ago except Apple was the company filing the patent, not Samsung. I thought it was a stupid idea then and I still think it's a stupid idea. What kind of gestures am I possibly going to be able to perform while I'm trying to physically hold a device? I can't see any practical applications for this and it would probably drain the battery powering the damn thing.

 

[dimar]

I'd like a 10" or 11" screen with one side e-ink and other side AMOLED, multiple microSD cards, wi-fi, bluetooth, 3G, 1080p video/camera and whatever else they can come up with. Vertical/horizontal scroll pads would be really nice.
Give it 3GB of RAM, let us run Android and Win7. Give it one of those new Atoms with integrated gfx. 16GB/32 super fast SSD should be fine.

 

[crossbow82]

I still can't figure out how you would hold it when using both hands. You'd need a sturdy stand that doesn't move around.

 

[Cyex]

If they also put a camera on both sides, you could do a video call with someone standing on the other side of it. Kind of like talking through a transparent piece of glass, only even more pointless.

 

[m-manla]

Not sure about it, but it does seems like a cool idea.

 

[guanyu210379]

This will put an all new type of application such as a game with control buttons on the main screen and the game's screen on the other screen.
It is fun to push something without looking at the game or looking at the game without seeing what you push.
....näääääh...I am just kidding...

At thismoment I don't know the good side of having a double sided screen tablet. I kinda like the dual screen concept, the one you like a book, but double sided? It could be a good idea.

 

[rohitbaran]

So, you have to hold it even more carefully than iPhone 4 so as to not cause an unintended input! 😛

 

[swamprat]

[citation][nom]jerreece[/nom]LMAO So how exactly do you HOLD the thing without actually causing an input?!?[/citation]
Look again at the pictures - it floats by itself letting you just poke it randomly.

 

[Silmarunya]

If one side would be an E-ink display and the other an LCD one, it'd be great. All the extra features of a tablet, but still the ability to read books comfortably.

If both sides are LCD's, it's just... meh.

 

[spartanii]

I dont see the point of having another screen unless you wanted to play a game of battleship or somthing. but i could see the point of having another touch sensitve control on the back to maybe eliminate unintended input to where you have to touch both sides to active controls or to maybe "grab" items on the screen and move them around. or just put the imput on the back and have a transparent screen so you can manipulate items with out blocking view.

 

[digiex]

Not to be out-done, Apple files a patent for hex faced iCube...

 

[kio54]

well, considering that samsung is one of the only companies that have glasses less 3d screens, they might try to use the back screen to make the thing 3d.
just a thought...

 

[hardwarekid9756]

would be WAY more awesome if it were the transparent OLED's like they were showing off at Computex. But it is still pretty nifty.

 

[tburns1]

I better not use it to watch porn. There might be accidental input.

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]tburns1[/nom]I better not use it to watch porn. There might be accidental input.[/citation]
What? You fear the device may squirt on the watcher's face?

 

[MxM]

[citation][nom]jomofro39[/nom]I am pretty sure Tom's had a very similar article, maybe a year ago, about a very similar filed patent, definitely NOT samsung, that also used the other side as another means to control the device...could have been a different site though, my short term memory is....hindered.[/citation]
It was Apple.

 

[MxM]

[citation][nom]joytech22[/nom]Wait.. but when you hold it.. wouldn't touching the bottom screw up whatever you were working on? for example, while you pick it up, your hand may touch the bottom screen, this in return would make the tablet do something accidentally.[/citation]
In all examples given, you need to touch top and bottom sides at the same time. If this is a general rule, then you can't mess up anything, not more than on normal tablet.