Patent ID: 8489157

Claim:
A clam-shell style handheld electronic device transitionable between open and closed configurations, said device comprising: a display housing pivotally coupled by a dual-hinged interconnector to a keyboard housing, said display housing having a display screen located at an interior surface thereof facing a keyboard on an interior surface of said keyboard housing in the closed configuration of the device and wherein at least one of the display housing and the keyboard housing includes a camera to the exclusion of the dual-hinged interconnector, the dual-hinged interconnector being disposed between a pair of hinge ends for each of the display housing and the keyboard housing; said dual-hinged interconnector having a thickness substantially equal to a combined thickness of said display and keyboard housings in the closed configuration of the device; and said dual-hinged interconnector having a length greater than at least twenty percent of a length of the longer of said display and keyboard housings and wherein lengthwise longitudinal axes of each of said display and keyboard housings and said dual-hinged interconnector are oriented substantially parallel, one to the others, in the closed configuration of the device.