Samsung SGH E770 (NET10)

This phone is supposed to be so slim that it will make you look fat. At least that's what its promotional tag says.

I can certainly vouch that the Samsung SGH E770 is one of the 'thinnest' phones that the Korean company has produced so far.

Even with its clamshell cover, it is less than 2cm thick. At only 85g, you can hardly feel its weight in your pocket. I am not sure that the phone will make me look fat though. Rather, it is helping me to burn fat while I work out at the gym.

EXTERNAL SLOT

The reason? The E770 comes with an external slot for micro memory cards - a major convenience for me.

I used to carry both my MP3 player and phone with me during my regular gym sessions.

But with 1GB micro memory cards available in the market now, I have not touched my MP3 player for several weeks.

I no longer need the player because I have transfered all 400 of my favourite songs to the phone.

As the E770 comes with a USB cable, it's really easy to update or transfer new songs to the phone. I just plug it into my laptop and drag the MP3 files to the phone icon. So my phone is also my MP3 player.

As the Play and Forward buttons are conveniently placed on the phone's cover, I can even select my favourite 'running song' - Vangelis' Chariots Of Fire - while I am burning rubber on the treadmill.

The phone comes with a special Vibetonz feature, which makes it vibrate gently even when it is not on silent mode. So if you are somewhere noisy and don't hear the SMS tone, you can still feel the phone vibrate when a message comes in.

Executives who are often away from their desks may be pleased to know that the E770 allows them to view Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files in text, graphic and video formats.

If reading on a small screen is not your cup of tea, how about projecting the data on to a plasma screen?

Like the latest range of phones that are targetted at business users, the E770 also has a TV-output function for you to channel your data to a big screen.