If you like your phones super skinny and encased in metal, Motorola’s RAZR and SLVR have just gotten themselves some serious new competition in the BenQ-Siemens EL71 slider phone, announced today at CeBIT. Brushed aluminum and magnesium! Only 16.mm thick! A keypad that glides out gently! You’d probably be going out on the town more if you had this phone, the better to show it off.
For a phone that’s meant first and foremost to be stylish, the EL71 is no slouch feature-wise—unlike, say, Nokia’s first fashion phones. The camera is 1.3 megapixels with a flash and will do video, it has Bluetooth, takes microSD cards and will play MP3s and AAC files. The Music Cable IHM-100 accessory lets you plug it into any hifi system and play your music over speakers, so maybe you wouldn’t bring your iPod around so much anymore.
https://gizmodo.com/new-nokias-nokia-7280-nokia-7270-nokia-7260-21004
Price for the EL71 is still TBA, but it should hit markets next month in Quartz Anthracite ; Opal Black” is to follow. If BenQ Mobile is serious about taking consumers away from Motorola, perhaps they should consider putting it out in pink, no?
https://gizmodo.com/pink-motorola-slvr-158009
We’ll try and get an EL71 in for review later this month, before it goes on sale. We’ll have more on the other handsets BenQ-Siemens announced at CeBIT as the week progresses.
Finest quality mobile design: The ultra-slim BenQ-Siemens EL71 slider phone with metal casing and QVGA display [BenQ Mobile]
BenQ-Siemens Announces Six New Handsets [Gizmodo]
https://gizmodo.com/benq-siemens-announces-six-new-handsets-159205
