BenQ today launched its P30 smart phone. The BenQ P30 is the slimmest smart phone in the world at 17 mm in thickness. BenQ P30's smart applications in combination with the slimmest and stylish outer design received high honors with the iF Design Award 2004 and the Gold National Awards 2004.

"The BenQ P30 was designed around the fact that our work lives and social lives are merging and that each person plays a different role whether it is the business person, the colleague, the travellor, the lover or the parent," said Irwin Chen, BenQ Vice-President and General Manager of Networking & Communications Business Group. "With multimedia capabilities and many licensed software, the BenQ P30 offers various built-in frequently-used applications and can truly fulfill the consumer's needs. And with its award-winning design, you will feel at ease no matter what part of your life you are living."

Featuring Symbian OS, the world's most popular operating system for smart phones, and the easy-to-use handwriting recognition user interface UIQ, the smart and stylish BenQ P30 is equipped with great features such as a 2.66 inch 262k color TFT LCD Touch Screen Panel and Picsel Document Viewer for easy full wide-screen viewing of different image formats and frequently used document formats, such as Word, PowerPoint and PDF.