Google notes in one of the latest patents that "despite the significant advances in hand held electronic devices, the physical form of these devices has seen little evolution. Most are shaped like a more or less smooth brick with increasingly smooth front, back and side surfaces. This configuration can easily slip from the hand of the user, and risk damaging the phone with potential loss of valuable data as well as hardware. Some aftermarket removable covers have been proposed, but such covers add bulk and weight and otherwise fail to provide an elegant solution." Google's invention provides for a new kind of housing for a smartphone having a modified surface with ridges or contours to enhance traction and resist slipping of the housing in a user's hand as noted in the patent figures above. Unfortunately it's awesomely ugly. Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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