On the site United States Patent Office (USPTO) have been discovered documents owned by Sony Ericsson, which describes one possible form for the future of the phone manufacturer.
«Mobile device with selectable camera position» (mobile device with a camera is selected) - this is this patent. He describes a mobile phone models like Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, in which the camera is at a turning block. The difference between the idea of Sony Ericsson is that it proposes to implement a turning block of smaller size - not the entire keyboard, but only with the lower number of digits.
Company Sony Ericsson believes that such implementation would allow the use of better optics, sensor size and will result in greater levels of magnification.
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