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It's hotting up now already with just three days left for CeBIT 2006 held in Hannover, Germany. Little known VK mobile, one of the Korean leading manufacturers of mobile handsets, today announced that it will be exhibiting, not 1, not 2 but 17 models at the CeBIT 2006. Among the four models that were revealed are the VK 2000, a winner of the prestigious Red Dot Design Award from Germany in 2006. In addition to base-band chips for GSM/GPRS mobile handsets produced by VMTS, French R&D's subsidiary, VK will show how it's complete product family is achieved through vertical integration. Including such things as mobile computing technology enabling mobile phone users to access networks and carry on business. The 4 models that were revealed are the VK 2000, Vk 2200, VK 5000 and the VK 700C models. Lets take a look at the four models one-by-one. VK will sit alongside Nokia and Motorola at CeBIT, but with an award winning model in their kitty, it will draw some attention from visitors, but its no secret that they have their work cut out and have a quiet a task on their hands.

VK 2000:
The VK 2000 is basically a GSM 900/1800/1900 phone, which boasts of extremely slim design with measurement of just 8.8mm thick. It is low end phone in a classical form-factor. It is also the world's lightest phone weighing just around 48g, thanks for the metal keypads instead of the conventional ones. It easily fits into your wallet just like any of your credit card does. On the conectivity side it has WAP 1.2.1, GPRS and MMS.

VK 2200 and VK 5000:
Well, this also comes under the category of slim-zone. The phone is powered by a whopping 4 MegaPixel CMOS camera. It includes an MP3 player as well supporting the MPEG4 format. With all these it has a depth of just 12mm, now thats a lot small for a camera phone. The Vk 5000 is a similar phone equipped with the EDGE chip (2.75 G) enhancing data transfer rates.

VK 700C:
The 700C is a CDMA phone with a slim slide design. It features an high-speed data transfer (Maximum: 2.4 Mb/Sec). It comes with an incorporation of MSM 6500 Chipset and boasts of a Main 2.0?262K Color TFT LCD (QVGA). It is powered by a 1.3 MegaPixel CMOS camera and comes with an internal memory of 128MB which can be extended upto 1GB as well. With its slim design that makes use of an intenna, it has all the functions necessary to be a premium quality mobile phone. Other features include MP3 player, VOD services, 64 polyphonic sounds and PC sync capability.