BenQ-Siemens have announced the new BenQ-Siemens E71 mobile phone.

The key feature of this phone is, apparently, it's non-stick coating. No fancy gadgets, super-megapixels or mobile TV for the E71 - just a non-stick coating that prevents fingerprints from sticking to it.

Er, wow.

You know a phone's aimed at the low-end market when 'non-stick' is its best feature!

From the press release:

Slim, rounded and brilliantly beautiful – the BenQ-Siemens E71 is a true eye-catcher you will also want to touch.

Thanks to an innovative non-stick coating (color variant “Dark Silver”) fingerprints will be next to invisible on the high-gloss metallic surface modeled on the aesthetics of fluid, floating metal. No matter how often you touch this mobile, the surface will retain its shine.
For acoustic pleasure, the E71 offers an MP3 player and an integrated FM stereo radio. A slot for interchangeable Micro-SD cards is also at hand so there is ample storage space for many hours of music and many great snapshots. Thanks to EDGE (depending on operator), data can be downloaded in no time. Pictures taken with the integrated 1.3 megapixel camera with 5x zoom can be viewed on the outstandingly brilliant and large QVGA display with over 260,000 colors. Multimedia content can be transferred from your PC onto the mobile in no time via the stylish SyncStation. As a special feature, the station also doubles as a charger.

This slim design mobile takes center stage at every party as your mobile music box, thanks to the music cable which connects the E71 to any stereo system.

The BenQ-Siemens offers mobile fun for all age groups with the preinstalled games Sudoku and “Ice Age 2”.

The BenQ-Siemens E71 will be available in the color variants “Dark Silver” and “Onyx Black” from September 2006 in Europe and Latin America, from November 2006 in Asia . Prices will be determined locally.