Of course, the Palm Pre is the hottest phone at CES. But lurking at the Microsoft booth here is an unusual Windows Mobile phone, the Mobinnova ICE.


The ICE is unlikely to come to the US, but it's a striking design: when it's off, it's a big, black slab with no visible buttons on the front. Everything on the front is touch-sensitive and only lights up as needed, whether we're taking about the 3", 240x400 touch screen, the bar of action buttons next to the main screen or the virtual cursor pad that pops up when you touch it. The phone relies heavily on haptic feedback - vibration - so you know what you've touched.

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