CDMA and GSM

Pantech Slate C530, first announced by AT&T together with three other new QWERTY phones, is now available for purchase from the largest North American mobile carrier.

Presented as the world’s thinnest handset to feature a full QWERTY keyboard, Pantech Slate can be bought for $49.99, after a $50 mail-in rebate and the signing of a 2-yr contract agreement. Its no commitment price is of $249.99.

The Slate measures 4.2 x 2.5 x 0.39 inches (107 x 63.5 x 9.9 millimeters), so it is, indeed, very slim. Unfortunately, apart from its QWERTY keyboard, the handset doesn’t offer too many features, being an entry-level device.
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Pantech, South Korea’s third largest handset manufacturer, is doing well both in its home country and in the US, especially since it has recently announced two new phones for AT&T.

But we’re not going to talk about AT&T’s phones right now, although I’m sure many of its subscribers would wish to have at least one of the devices presented below.

The Pantech Design Community, comprised of 20 college students, has showcased four new concept phones that Pantech might, someday, build.

The first concept is called Coralliform Water. Obviously inspired by the sea and its life, the phone is a slider that somehow looks like a budding flower, when closed. No tech specs were given, but the Coralliform Water seems to have a touchscreen display and a camera.

This phone would especially look good in a lady’s hands and, to be honest, I wouldn’t mind having one. Not at all. Here it is: Read the rest of this entry »

The Pantech Matrix is a dual-sliding QWERTY phone work on Quad-band GSM and Dual-band UMTS network. It features a 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.2 inches 262k color TFT display with 176?220 pixel resolution, built-in aGPS, Bluetooth with A2DP, instant messaging, Mobile Email, AT&T Navigator, AT&T Mobile Music, CV, AT&T Video Share calling and more.

Pantech Matrix C740 Specification
Date Announced 2008, 4Q
Network Technology GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
UMTS 850/1900MHz
Dimensions (mm) 102 x 50 x 20 mm
Weight (g) 132
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Verizon may have come up with one good looking phone today (Motorola Krave ZN4), but its good old friend AT&T has just announced no less than four new handsets: Pantech Matrix, Samsung Propel, Pantech Slate and AT&T Quickfire.

All of AT&T’s new phones have full QWERTY keyboards, hence they are meant to offer a quick and easy mobile messaging experience to users.

According to a recent Nielsen study, a part of the US mobile phone owners use their handsets more for text messaging and less for talking. Also, AT&T says that text messaging volumes had tripled since 2007, so it’s obvious why the US carrier has decided to bring four new QWERTY-equipped phones.

The only new handset available right away is Pantech Matrix: Sold for $79.99, after a mail-in rebate and the signing of a 2-yr contract, Pantech Matrix has three color versions: navy blue, black & green and red. Similar to the old Pantech Duo, the Matrix comes with an alphanumeric keyboard in addition to the QWERTY one. Read the rest of this entry »

The C610 features an integrated 1.3-megapixel camera with built-in flash to record, send and receive video messages. It has AT&T’s 3G network for Video Share calling.

For music-playing functionality, users can stream music with MobiRadio, identify songs with MusicID and shop for music with Napster and eMusic. It supports microSD cards to store up to 2,000 songs.

With AT&T Mobile Music and CV services, customers can manage, download and play stereo-quality music, watch popular TV show clips and view exclusive content from HBO, MTV and ESPN.

The C610 includes A-GPS technology, giving users turn-by-turn navigation through AT&T Navigator.

“Pantech remains determined to developing unique approaches to everyday products,” said Patrick Beattie, Vice President of Pantech. “The C610 combines a sleek, fashionable design with desirable features like AGPS and an assortment of multi-media capabilities to bring users a product that is attractive and functional in equal parts.”

The Pantech C610 debuts in Metropolitan Red with chrome-polished accents. Read the rest of this entry »

Pantech & Curitel bared to the public a feature-packed cellie known as CanU801EX. The top-drawer mobile phone keeps a ton of working attributes similar to its 5.15 million pixel digital camera, high speed USB 2.0 interface, email and terrestrial DMB. It’s also afforded an electronic dictionary and file viewer. In conclusion, the polished handset boasts a 2.8 wide VGA display to boot. Read the rest of this entry »

Most entry-level phones aren’t too attractive, but the Breeze is an exception. It has a delightfully slim and trim profile, with curved corners and sides. Measuring 3.9 inchs long by 1.97 inches wide by 0.77 inch thick, the Breeze is wrapped in an all-white matte plastic shell and feels nice and light in the hand. The Breeze also comes with a 1.04-inch diagonal external screen, which we like to see on basic phones like this. It supports 65,000 colors and displays information such as date, time, battery, and signal strength, plus photo caller ID. A volume rocker sits on the left spine as does the charger jack. On the back of the phone is the camera lens, but there is no self-portrait mirror. When you open the phone, you’ll find a very bright and vibrant 2.2-inch display with 260,000 color support. Images look simply brilliant, with sharp graphics and colors that pop. There are two menu interface styles–”breEZe” mode, which organizes the options in a simple list, Read the rest of this entry »

The Duo (also known as the C810) is a dual-slider handset that sports both a traditional numeric keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard. In order to accomplish this, a few compromises had to be made. For one, at 102mm x 50mm x 22mm (4.0″ x 2.0″ x .9″), the Duo is not a particularly thin handset. Its 128g (4.5oz) weight isn’t going to set any records either. But all in all, Pantech did a fairly good job of keeping the size and weight of the device under control, which keeps the Duo looking, for the most part, like any other slider smartphone.
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the Pantech Duo boasts an innovative dual-sliding double-keyboard design. As one of the first devices from AT&T to be powered by the Windows Mobile 6 operating system, the UMTS/HSDPA-enabled Duo is capable of average download speeds of 600 Kbps to 1.4 Mbps. The drop-down QWERTY keyboard is useful for writing email and editing Microsoft Word and Excel documents; the numeric keypad is ideal for sending quick texts and dialing on the run. A flip of the wrist brings users into contact with either keyboard and any mobile need. Dynamic AT&T Mobile Music and Video services let customers manage a variety of multimedia libraries, download and play stereo-quality music, watch popular TV shows and view exclusive content from HBO, MTV, and ESPN, among others, on the handset’s 240 x 320 px screen. Also onboard are convenient and widely used features, such as Internet Explorer Mobile, Windows Media Player 10 Mobile and Stereo Read the rest of this entry »

The FCC was kind enough to show off another mobile phone today, this time it was the Pantech UTStarcom TXT8010, which just happens to be going by the code name of Elvis.

Elvis will be a dual band (850/1900Mhz) CDMA handset with a slide out (from the bottom) QWERTY keyboard. Other features are expected to include Bluetooth, 1.3-megapixel camera and a microSD slot. Read the rest of this entry »