Not only slim for your body is hype. Slim for your phone, well that is the cool hype. After begun with legendary Motorola RAZR, most of handset manufacturers are creating their own. Several big companies also become the followers. Nokia trails with its Nseries clamshell, N76. This phone is so RAZR look alike. Also Sony Ericsson with its beauty candy bar, W880i. On the other hand, Korean and Chinese manufacturers are eager to list new slim handset every month. One of them is Pantech.

Third largest Korean handset maker after Samsung and LG, Pantech has revealed its new very slim sliding phone. It is Pantech IM-S230 with 9.9 mm thick. They said it is SKINY phone, to terminate the SLIM term. The word skinny, like skinny jeans, means to display slender and sexy figure. It is probably the slimmest of any sliding phone ever made.

This IM-S230 main feature is DMB-TV support. With this, you are able to view TV on your 2.2 inch TFT screen display via terrestrial transmission. It is equipped with media player for your mp3 collections, electronic dictionary for your English learning (especially for non-English users), document viewer, and also 1.3 megapixels camera for your snapping convenience. The phone will be available in two solid natural colors, black and white.