Sliding Handset from Kyocera

The USA's Verizon Wireless has announced immediate availability of the Kyocera SE47 sliding cell phone. The phone features a unique slide-to-open faceplate, which offers Verizon Wireless' trendsetting customers an alternative and fashionable way to open and close their phones.

The Kyocera SE47 gives customers a sleek new twist on the traditional mobile phone design, as well as a selection of must-have features. The Kyocera SE47 can act as an organizer, offering scheduling tools, calculator, alarm clock and a stopwatch. The SE47 is also equipped with many other desirable features, such as speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, polyphonic ringtones, predictive text and enhanced two-way TXT messaging.

The Kyocera SE47 is Get It Now-enabled for easy download from Verizon Wireless' virtual mall that gives customers a myriad of separately purchased options that include games, ring tones and productivity tools.

The silver handset features silver and chrome navigation keys, which guide users through all phone features. To place a call, customers simply slide the screen up to reveal the numerical keys, then slide the screen down when the call is finished.

"This phone was designed for the discerning fashion-forward crowd that you're equally apt to find on the ski slopes, hitting the links, on campus or in the hottest new clubs," said Don McGuire, vice president of global marketing for Kyocera Wireless Corp. "Wireless devices have become a part of our culture and fashion and the distinctive style of this phone really speaks to that audience. The Kyocera SE47 combines the design, features and price point that trendsetters are looking for with Verizon Wireless' nationwide CDMA network."

The Kyocera SE47 is light and compact, weighing only 3.39 ounces and measuring 3.48" x 1.89" x 0.90" closed and 4.80" x 1.89" x 0.90 open. The dual-band digital cellular handset incorporates assisted-GPS and CDMA2000 1X technology and has TTY and TDD capabilities for the hearing impaired. Predictive text-input software provides rapid text entry in English, Spanish or Portuguese."

Posted to the site on 10th March 2004