LG's new slider phone is as soft as human skin

Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:44PM EDT

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Just yesterday, I told you about Samsung's new G600 Belle phone that includes a bottle of matching nail polish, but if purple nails aren't your thing, maybe LG's new silicone keypad will appeal to you... that is, if you like a phone that feels like human skin.

Aving.net reported about a new LG phone hitting the Korean market today called the LG-SH240. It features an elastic silicone front panel that  spreads throughout the keypad, menu, and directional button. A keypad with stretchy, skin-like texture sounds like an odd selling point to me, not to mention creepy. I was inclined to believe perhaps LG's message was lost in translation until I saw the promotional pictures, which do a good job of illustrating the point with touchy-feely models showing lots of skin.

Apart from having a silicone keypad, the LG-SH240 features a two-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 3G, MP3 player, and video telephony and is available in Korea for about $400. I admit I'm a bit fascinated by the wacky things designers do to phones, and this is definitely one of the wackiest phone features of all time.

 

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