Pantech today announced a new touchscreen mobile phone, Pantech Presto, in South Korea. The Presto is a one-touch music phone, featuring intuitive and easy access to most-used features and users’ favorite music tracks. This mobile phone allows the users to quickly replay the music by setting gesture and free control of play, stop, next music piece, previous music piece and volume is available even in held state.

Jang, Ho-Yeong, the exclusive duty researcher for the differentiated design of releasing the lock to touch screen when the top cover being pushed up by pop-up sad: “The users unconsciously remember that they should push up the cover each time they are using a handset and, ” “to reduce fatigue of the users due to unconscious act and realize an easily used full-touch handset, the design of pushing up the top cover by pop-up is first applied to the full-touch handset. ”

The Presto phone will be launched in South Korea. Its selling price is 750-800 thousand won. Users will get an external 4GB memory with the Presto phone.