Patent ID: 8665594

Claim:
A portable electronic device, comprising: a display portion having a first front surface; a keypad portion having a second front surface and a back surface opposite the second front surface; and an external slide portion sized and shaped to be held by a user's hand, the slide portion having a third front surface and a back surface opposite the third front surface, the slide portion being slidably coupled to the display and keypad portions; wherein the display portion is linearly movable relative to the keypad portion and slide portion in a first direction parallel to the first front surface and the second front surface between a closed arrangement and an extended arrangement; wherein, in the closed arrangement, the keypad portion and slide portion are disposed such that the third front surface of the slide portion is coplanar with the second front surface of the keypad portion, and the display portion overlies the keypad portion; wherein, in the extended arrangement, the third front surface of the slide portion is coplanar with the second front surface of the keypad portion, and the keypad portion is at least partially exposed; wherein the display portion and the slide portion are movable relative to the keypad portion in a second direction at an acute angle to an axis perpendicular to the first front surface between the extended arrangement and an open arrangement; and wherein, in the open arrangement, the first front surface of the display portion is coplanar with the second front surface of the keypad portion, the third front surface of the slide portion is offset rearwardly relative to second first front surface of the keypad portion, and the back surface of the slide portion is offset rearwardly relative to the back surface of the keypad portion.