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Here is a new weird-looking concept phone from BenQ-Siemens, the SL98 Slider. The handset looks more like a pocket calculator, with the small external display to show caller information and other stuff. Its main screen slides out on the top, just like the keypad on a standard slider. It feels pretty unusual, to be honest. Once the display is out, one can take advantage of a digicam located on the back of the screen.

The popular BenQ-Siemens AL21 mobile phone is now available in white. No specs have been changed, only the color to give the phone a new look.

For those who forgot, BenQ-Siemens AL21 features a colorful 130x130 TFT LCD screen, a USB interface for data exchange, GPRS, and hands free.

After trying for some time to save aspects of the Munich-based BenQ-Siemens handset business manager declared that 1,900 of the firm's 3,000 workers must be laid off.

There is a possibility that the remaining workers could thrive as a handset development and design house for third-party manufacturers. As a result the new business would preserve 1,100 German jobs in case it is profitable.