Going all the way in Singapore, MWG which the smartphone arm of O2 in Asia has released a new smarthphone in the Singaporean market: the MWG Zinc II. The MWG Zinc II is a Windows Mobile 6.1 powered smarthphone which boasts of a slide-out keyboard. But the Zinc II’s keyboard has no real keys, instead the keyboard area is flat with raised bevels around the key areas.

The MWG Zinc also features a quick menu and it can be quickly launch using a touch button in the phone’s today screen. The quick menu features four functions/shortcuts which are the Windows Media Player, camera and games, pictures and videos. It also feature a finger swiping feature for accesing contacts and other short cuts. On its network connectivity features, the MWG Zinc II boasts of a 3.6mbps HSDPA speeds, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a GPS antenna. The GPS also features a nifty viewer.

The MWG Zinc II also features a 2-megapixel camera. Other features of the MWG Zinc II include:
* Samsung 500 MHz processor
* semi-automatic sliding mechanism with qwerty keypad
* 2.8-inch TFT QVGA Touch Screen
* WLAN (802.11 b/g) and BT v 2.0
* GPS SirF Star III
* 64MB SDRAM
* 256MB NAND Flash ROM
* MicroSD expandable memory
* speakerphone
* stereo speaker
* playback support: MIDI, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, WVE, AMR, AAC, AAC+
* ringtone Support: MIDI, MP3, WMA.

The MWG Zinc II offers up Standby time of up to (GSM) 200-260 hours and Talk time of up to (GSM) 4-6 hours.