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Verizon Wireless has formally announced the availability of the Samsung Alias 2, a dual-hinge mobile handset that is the first in the United States to feature a mutable E Ink keypad that can change its configuration to match an particular application or a users’ actions. Opened vertically, the Alias 2 is a flip phone with a standard numeric keypad, but in landscape the phone presents a QWERTY keypad for users’ email and messaging needs.
Quote from the review:
“Make no bones about it: the SK65 is a large phone. It weighs nearly as much as a Sony Ericsson P910, coming in at 147g. It is long and thick, too: 123mm x 47mm x 22mm. But it still fits the normal candybar form factor, and as such, is very pocketable. The gloss black and matte silver finish is very attractive, but the black surfaces are very prone to smudging. The front of the handset is home of the large, bright 132×176 pixel 64K color display, the metal screen inlay speaker grille, and the keypad and controls. The keypad, though low on the SK65’s body, is quite usable, has no odd quirks to it, and is lit with a soft white backlight. The directional controller, or d-pad, also works very well….”
Quote from the review at The Register:
“Dodgy keypad layout aside, the SX1 is never going to rival either the Treo 600 or the P900 for entering larger volumes of text than brief SMS messages. Siemens no doubt considers those phones as rivals, but they’re really battling it out with each other, leaving the SX1 head to head with the 6600. Both are phones that offer a good deal of PDA functionality – the Treo 600 and the S900 are coming at the problem from the other end, as PDAs that have been shaved down to work as mobile phones too.
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