Asymmetry in the Motorola MPx Keyboard Design

MobileBurn has a picture of the upcoming Motorola MPx, a cell phone/PDA running Microsoft's Pocket PC Phone OS. The dual-hinge design allows the user to open the display one way to create a typical phone form factor or another which is more like the Danger Sidekick or Sony UX50 Clie.

This is enabled by the strange wave form design of the keyboard... which you can see is not exactly symmetric for either form factor. You have to give the designers credit for trying to resolve the problem by overloading the keys and creating a hybrid shape, but I hope they did some serious user testing on how people adapt to the asymmetric keyboard design. [via engadget]