You need an important number, but you don’t have your phone? st send it a text.

The Optimus G o, a premium hset with a 5.5-inch screen unveiled by Electronics in Korea last week, has a feature called “Me Chat” that answers queries sent via SMS from another phone. The company says it is meant for situations when someone accidentally leaves the phone at home or in the office.

is showing the phone at Mobile rld Congress in Barcelona. The Optimus G o will go on sale overseas starting this April.

The feature, which worked well in Korean on a demo phone provided to News Service by in Seoul, supports queries that include details of individuals in its contact list, the location of the phone, missed call information calendar entries.

In tests, it responded to texts like “at is my wife’s phone number?”, “ere are you?”, “Any missed calls?” For location questions, it responds with a physical address.

For security, the phone requires that a user first text a pre-registered ID password to log in. It will then accept queries from the same device for five minutes before it shuts off.

It’s no Siri

The feature is far from a text-based version of Apple’s Siri or similar Android voice control features. In Korean, it offers about 10 to 15 ways of phrasing each inquiry, doesn’t recognize variations.

An spokeswoman could not immediately confirm what languages the feature will support in other markets.

In a hs-on test, though, the feature worked well on the Optimus G in Korean for basic tasks such as looking up contact details for family members. though the possible queries are limited, they could come in hy for users who keep their lives in their phones.