Pantech's SKY IM-R470S succumbs to the 3D UI trend

by Chris Ziegler posted Jun 25th 2009 at 4:11PM

Somewhere in the past year, Samsung and LG spontaneously decided that mobile UIs should rotate in three-space as though each screen is a face on a cube. Other than sheer visual bedazzlement, there's not a lot of practical value to that -- but that's not stopping Pantech from getting into the game. It's coining its 3D interface "TruEmotion," and the first handset to take advantage of it will be the IM-R470S launched by Pantech's SKY division in Korea. The phone features a 3.2-inch VGA touchscreen and -- if we had to guess, anyway -- it probably supports T-DMB reception, but you'll need to be local to pick it up when it launches in July.

Filed under: Handsets, Pantech

Tags: im-r470s, korea, pantech, r470s, sky, south korea, SouthKorea, truemotion

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sbalkwill_design @ Jun 25th 2009 5:05PM

HTC did this for the eariler TouchFlo interfaces...then moved on, as Engadget rightly mentions "visual bedazzlement" followed by frustration that the time it takes to do its thing in changing from Cube side to Cube side.

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Jamar @ Jun 26th 2009 1:07PM

I am still vastly annoyed that Pantech doesn't release anything nice and not WinMo for the US and elsewhere (aka not Korea/sometimes China). It seemed to end with Helio's absorption into Virgin Mobile.