Pantech's Sky IM-S400L slider with "Glide Sensor" keypad debuted in Korea

Pantech's SKY division has just released the quite handsome, Korea-only IM-S400L. The CDMA slider boasts a 2.6-inch LCD, and a keypad using the company's new "Glide Sensor" technology which it says operates like a laptop trackpad. We don't have much else in the way of specs for this puppy, but we do know that it's available in white, pink, blue and green for ?500,000 -- about $395. Crème brulée is, sadly, not included.

[Via Akihabara News]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:38PM]

Heart-shaped crème brulée is the best idea ever. Now that's something I'd like to see a USB gadget do for me!

[Maxwell Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:39PM]

I think thats coffee, not creme brulee.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:55PM]

Yeah, crème brulée bowls don't typically have handles.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:01PM]

You beat me to it!

[Laura June Posted Dec 29th 2008 6:41PM]

I think you're right!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:46PM]

I feel sad saying this but... Am I the only one that when I see mention of Crème brulée I immediately think of High School Musical?

'Some day, I want to make the perfect Crème brulée' - Stick to the status quo.

[joperron Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:58PM]

Funny, I think of restaurants who can't come up with anything better for dessert :(

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:04PM]

Apple, you have made me seriously question the age of the typical engadget comment contributor.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 30th 2008 1:14PM]

Um... Are you 12 by any chance?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:51PM]

I'm somewhat surprised by how many vulgar jokes my mind is racing to create out of "Glide Sensor". They are numerous and hilarious but for the sake of all humanity I will restrain myself from posting them. Hehe, Glide Sensor, hehehe.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:50PM]

awesome, keep those dirty fingers off the screen and on the pad where they belong.

[Coffee Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:59PM]

so it's like the Zunepad, or a few dozen other "touchpad" type mp3 players that have been out for years? Would be good for most other functions, not great for inputting a phone number, though.

Sometimes buttons are really the best solution.

[CJ Posted Dec 31st 2008 7:22PM]

Er... Yeah, that's why it has a numberpad as well.

[PhoenixFox Posted Dec 30th 2008 5:49AM]

That "numpad" IS the touch-sensitive pad they're talking about.

RTFA.

[Arkenklo Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:58PM]

Obvious Iphone rippoff.

*1 Its white (apple's patented colour)
*2 It has a glossy edge (so does the iphone)
*3It has an lcd (so does the iphone)
*4 it says "sky" on the front (I havent figured out how that's apple-related yet, but just you wait)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:01PM]

Sky - Typically the location where the heads of Apple users are found.

[tavisjohn Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:03PM]

BlurMagic, I thought that was butt!

[Arkenklo Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:06PM]

Now I've got it,

Sky -- The limit of apple's genius

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:09PM]

@ Arlenko


While you limit your self to atmospheric conditions,

I'm the Moon. And I'm a PC.

[Arkenklo Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:14PM]

It's arKenkLo.

If Windows is the moon then the sun is definatley Linux. Without it, the world as we know it (Internet) would die in a matter of days.


Oh, I mean Mac.

[3rdman Posted Dec 29th 2008 6:49PM]

So Apple's genius is limited by the stratosphere?

Or w/e -sphere is should be, my middle school science class was not exactly fun

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 10:01PM]

@Arkenklo
"Obvious Iphone rippoff."

*1 Its white (apple's patented colour) THE iPHONE IS BLACK. APPLE DID NOT PATENT THE COLOR WHITE

*2 It has a glossy edge (so does the iphone) MOST HIGH TECH DEVICES ARE GLOSSY NOW, AND CERTAINLY BEEN THAT WAY LONG BEFORE THE iPHONE CAME OUT

*3It has an lcd (so does the iphone) 99% OF PHONES NOW USE LCD SCREENS

*4 it says "sky" on the front (I havent figured out how that's apple-related yet, but just you wait) THIS IS POSSIBLY THE ONLY THING THE IPHONE, AND THIS CELL PHONE HAVE IN COMMON... THEY BOTH HAVE LAME NAMES.

Douche... /wrist moron

[PhoenixFox Posted Dec 30th 2008 5:50AM]

Dude, your sarcasm detector is SERIOUSLY broken!

I'd get that checked, douche!

[PhoenixFox Posted Dec 30th 2008 5:54AM]

Someone's sarcasm detector is SERIOUSLY broken.

get it fixed, douche.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:05PM]

Unless a cellphone is going to come stateside I really don't care. This kind of thing should be on Engadget Mobile.

[Arkenklo Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:09PM]

I don't care either way, I live in Sweden.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:13PM]

I am so sorry for you. But I still think that it should be on Engadget Mobile. The news there is basically just a cellphone only version of the news on regular Engadget. Someone new should decide where these stories should go.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:22PM]

I need one with an astroglide sensor. I've ruined three phones that way.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 4:23PM]

Mitch Mitch Bo... Banana Fanna fo ...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 6:02PM]

I like to see all phones worldwide,japan Asia euros etc,. They've all been impacted somehow by the revolutionary iPhone ,the one by which all touchscreen phones are measured. Has set the bar very high,2 years later n still nothing that can beat it

[insky Posted Dec 29th 2008 6:42PM]

So I take it you REALLY like the iPhone then?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2008 11:10PM]

Is it just me, or does the third shot show the LG icon below the coffee?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 31st 2008 12:24AM]

Right. That's LG icon.
But that's not LG Electronics. This phone is for LG Telecom.
LG(Lucky-Goldstar) is a huge company group in South Korea includes chemical, oil, construction, communication, food, bio tech, electronics, etc...