RIM just grabbed the most absurd QWERTY keyboard patent. The idea is to convert a half-QWERTY keypad into a full QWERTY keypad by a keypad with wings. 

Of course, as a BlackBerry user, I always wanted to have an ergonomic keypad design, but this one is totally not for me. Not for you also, maybe.

In the original position it looks like a normal alphanumeric keypad and then there are two hinges on the left and right edges that open to reveal four columns of keys (two on each side) that would convert it into a QWERTY keypad! Has anyone stopped to even ponder how uncomfortable it’d be to us the column of keys that are hanging off either edge of the phone? And we’re not yet objecting to the fact that it is a half-QWERTY keyboard with two alphabets for every key!

[CellPassion via Engadget Mobile]