A relatively small British mobile phone manufacturer, Onyx, is hoping to get a foothold in the market with the release of its three new handsets. Onyx are soon to be releasing the phones, the Flip, the Slider and the Nero, in an attempt to fill in the gaps in the mobile phone market.

The new phones are dual-sim, meaning you can place two sim cards in them at once. This allows people to have one handset for both business and personal calls and also to make it easier and cheaper to make phone calls and send or receive messages abroad.

The Flip is a simple clam-shell phone that supports dual-sim usage. The Flip is aimed at the style conscious in terms of its design and Onyx hope that it will be useful to those who use multiple tariffs. Because it uses dual-sim it should help multi-tariff phone users to save quite a bit of money and on top of this also save some money while abroad.

The Slider is also dual-sim and comes with the same benefits as the Flip because of it, but is more music oriented. There is also email functionality and a 2 megapixel camera on board. There are the same benefits for being abroad and saving money on tariffs but with more emphasis on entertainment.

The Nero benefits from the dual-sim nature of both the Flip and Slider, and also the email and camera features of the Slider. The additional feature for the Nero is its desirable touchscreen. Onyx also state that they have more handsets in the line up, with an 8 megapixel snapper, a Windows Mobile device, and an Android phone with 5 megapixel camera. They have not given any more official information or release dates for these announced phones just yet though.