Pantech's SKY IM-R100 rotating slider

Now here's one we'll forget ever existed before the day's out. We guess we can understand adding a rotating screen to your slider, if it does DMB -- Pantech's SKY IM-R100 doesn't, yet holds on to the impossibly complex form factor. In fact, the form factor is the most interesting thing about the handset, which packs a 2-megapixel camera, media player, microSD slot, and not much else. Sure, you might drop some vids on that memory card that benefit from a landscape display, but might we simply recommend you turn the phone sideways? As you might guess, this one doesn't stand a snowball's chance of making it outside South Korea's borders, and for once, we're just fine with that.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 5th 2006 9:07PM]

y'know, the more i wanna hate it, the more i like the idea. i mean, c'mon, when was the last time you wanted to take a panorama shot with your cell's cam, and you had to turn the thing sideways and thereby reduce yourself to always turning the phone sideways to show off the pic. plus, you can wow people with it:
me- "yeah, it came all the way from korea, and it does this!" *rotates screen*
everyone else- "ooh! cool!"

then, while they're in awe, you sell it to one of them for about twice as much as you bought it, and hurry away before they figure out they can't get it on verizon or sprint. mwa-ha-ha!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 7th 2006 8:49AM]

The first question I had when I saw this, was why is Pantech focusing on the octopus market? -But considering how it opens, it still looks as though it's down with a single throw of the thumb. It's like Legally Blonde, "Lift, and Twist!"