Fujitsu Multi-slider concept phone
Fujitsu have shown off two new concept phones featuring a novel four-way slider design called, appropriately (if unimaginatively), the “Multi Slider”. The new concept features a keypad that slides out from underneath the mobile phone in all four directions, revealing a different set of keys each time. Just when you thought every sliding variant had been tried in mobile phone land, it seems Fujitsu decided they could go one better!


Fujitsu concept phones
Fujitsu were also showing off another mobile phone concept called simply the Slider. This concept phone features a full QWERTY-keyboard that slides out (in one direction only this time), and is clearly aimed at web browsing or instant messaging.


Both of these phones are being exhibited not at CTIA 2006, but at the Triennale di Milano exhibition in Milan. Perhaps the bright lights and endless slot machines of Vegas put Fujitsu off, or maybe no-one had told them a full-scale mobile telecoms exhibition was going on!

[Source: The Register]