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Pantec PH-S4000 MP3 player slash phoneBy Larry Garfield, Thursday 16 December 2004
Pantec's latest handset takes convergence the other direction, with a device that is built more as an MP3 player than a phone. It's even sensibly upside down.

Pantec's PH-S4000 mobile phone is not designed as a mobile phone. It's primarily designed as an mp3 player, although it functions as a phone, too.

The PH-S4000 is more MP3 player than phone
A svelte 80.5 x 37.5 X 24.3 mm and light 81 grams, the PH-S4000 is a slider-phone design. The front cover includes no phone functions, instead sporting controls for the integrated MP3 player. There is also a single 260,000 color TFT display, measuring 1.5 inches and offering 128 x 143 pixel resolution. The "phone" opens to reveal a typical numeric keypad.

As is common for Korean mobile phones, the PH-S4000 also includes a 0.3 megapixel VGA camera. Both the MP3 player and camera make use of an included 64 MB of RAM (40 MB user-accessible), very spacious for a phone but paltry for an audio player now that micro-hard drives are on the market, and is expandable via a miniSD slot. A 64 MB miniSD card is included, and the miniSD design currently scales up to 256 MB.

Markings on the PH-S4000 seem upside-down at first, however, the phone is designed to be worn on a strap around the neck. As a result, the markings are then right-side up to the wearer, making the audio function buttons easily accessible. Other features more typical of a mobile phone are included, such as 64-tone polyphonic ringtones.

The Pantec PH-S4000 will be available before Christmas exclusively in Korea. It will cost approximately $360 USD.

Additional high-resolution images of the PH-S4000 are available on the following pages.
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