Sony Ericsson Z588i – flip phone with stylus

The Sony Ericsson Z558i may look like just another flip phone at first glance, but this handset does a trick we haven’t seen much before. It has a touch screen and a stylus, as well as handwriting recognition. Besides that, the phone is much like the Z550, a phone for the Chinese market. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, 18MB of internal memory (which you can boost up to a more useful 1GB via Memory Stick), and EDGE. The touchy-feely Z558i will be available outside of China, but no more details are known yet.