The most interesting peculiarity of the G5500 is its sliding design. The phone thus has two active positions, and in every one you can perfectly handle it.
Quote from the review at Digit-Life:
“The most interesting peculiarity of the G5500 is its sliding design. The phone thus has two active positions, and in every one you can perfectly handle it. Such design is used for the first time. The Nokia 7650 and Siemens SL55 are built on a similar principle, but the aim is different. Nokia and Siemens hide the keypad, while in the G5500 the whole keypad and even the joystick are available in both slider’s positions. There are also Samsung Matrix Phone and Nokia 8850, but the former is from a completely different cohort, while the sliding panel in the latter is just a kind of a flip. The last model with a sliding design is the Nokia 8910/8910i.”
