Pantech Reveal: Dual Keyboards Are Cool

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Feature phones are rarely worth much notice, especially in a season filled with sexy new smartphone releases. That said, the Pantech Reveal has a really cool design that makes it worth talking about. In their quest to create a perfect social feature phone, Pantech has stumbled upon a dual keyboard design that is actually sort of awesome. Basically, a BlackBerry-style QWERTY keyboard slides out from under the numpad, and both remain active.

Aside from the dual-keyboards, there's not much special about the Reveal. It does pack 3G capability, AT&T Navigator, and access to AT&T's new HTML mobile browser. As far as feature phones go, the Reveal is pretty high-end. It looks like a solid buy for the teenage (or younger) cell phone user in your life. That is, assuming they're worth $79.99 (after a $50 mail in rebate) to you.

Posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:15:37 CDT | by Robert Evans

Pantech Reveal, Pantech Impact, Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight Hit AT&T

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AT&T announced four new mobile phones today, two each from Pantech and Samsung that feature full Web browsers as well as physical and virtual keyboards.
The Pantech Reveal and Pantech Impact will join the Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight for the holiday shopping season.

The new phones are the first to come preloaded with AT&T's new richer and faster HTML mobile browser and att.net service, combining the best of full HTML browsing with unique features for personalizing favorite bookmarks and local searches. The new att.net mobile platform utilizes advanced data compression from Opera Software, allowing for much faster delivery of HTML Web pages. Read more

Posted on Mon, 5 Oct 2009 01:32:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AT&T Offers Pantech Breeze in Black

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Pantech makes lots of lower cost handsets for AT&T that are aimed at the mobile messaging and email crowd. I took a look at one of their handsets, the Matrix a while back and it was a nice phone. The company has announced that its Breeze is now available in a new color.

The new black Breeze has silver inside and the case on the exterior is black. The Breeze has large keys, a user-friendly design, a bright display, and a camera built-in. A trio of quick call keys are located right below the screen that can be linked to the most commonly called numbers dialed. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Pantech IM-S410 Phone is Wind-aware

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Pantech officially announced today a mobile phone that can be puffed at to control some functions.
The Pantech IM-S410 is using the microphone to detect your puff commands.
Translating the Korean press-release results in calling this feature Wind-aware. Pantech offers little apps on the phone like a flower you can blow the pedals off of.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech Matrix Mobile Phone Review

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Today we are looking at the Pantech Matrix mobile phone from AT&T. The handset is a dual slider design with a full QWERTY keyboard.

Mobile phone users looking for a low cost handset that is big on text and IM messaging should give the Pantech Matrix a look. The handset is great for messaging. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:56:26 CST | by Shane McGlaun

AT&T Debuts Pantech Slate Handset

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AT&T and Pantech have announced that the Pantech Slate is now available to purchase online and in stores. The Slate is hailed as the world's thinnest QWERTY keyboard handset and supports AT&T's new line of quick messaging devices.

The Slate provides immediate access to a range of messaging services like test, multimedia messaging, and email. The device supports multimedia, Bluetooth, and video recording via the 1.3MP camera. Even users shopping on a budget can afford the slate with a price of $49.99 after a 2-year agreement and $50 mail-in rebate. Read more

Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:12:26 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AT&T launches slim Pantech Slate

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AT&T Wireless launches the Pantech Slate, which is according to Pantech the World’s Thinnest QWERTY Keyboard handset.
The Slate measures less than 10mm in thickness. The texting phone has raised and tactile buttons, a colorful and easy-to-read screen, and a rubberized back panel for comfort gripping.

Other features of the Pantech Slate include 1.3MP camera, Bluetooth, Multimedia functionality including support of AT&T’s MEdia Net and custom content and immediate and simple access to a range of messaging services, including text messaging, multimedia messaging, instant messaging, and email. Read more

Posted on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:06:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Pantech IM-R300 Touchscreen Phone is for Lovers

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Pantech announces the IM-R300 touchscreen mobile phone in Korea.

Pantech aims this touchscreen phone at couples in love. You can draw little scribbles like hearts or little messages during a video conference directly on the screen and the "love graffiti" gets transmitted as well. Read more

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:29:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech Mobile Phone Concept Designs for 2010

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Korean mobile phone maker Pantech invited last December design students to come up with phone concepts for the year 2010.

Pantech now released 5 concept phone designs. The Tower Lily design (photo) is trying to capture the innocence and integrity of the lily in a mobile phone shape. Read more

Posted on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:15:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech Blade IM-S320 HSDPA Phone launches

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Pantech announces the Blade IM-S320 HSDPA Phone in Korea.

The Pantech Blade IM-S320/IM-S320K will be available through KTF this week.
Pantech calls the Blade a luxury slider. Features of the 3G HSDPA IM-S320 include 2.1 inch screen, DMB TV tuner, MP3 player, 1.3MP camera, dictionary, document viewer and multi-tasking OS. Read more

Posted on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:24:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AT&T Gets Pantech Duo in Red

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AT&T announced today that it now has the Pantech Duo dual-sliding phone in red. The Pantech Duo uses a dual-sliding design with the keypad sliding out vertically and the keyboard sliding out horizontally.

The phone uses 3G technology for fast wireless data connection and measures 4.02-inches tall, 1.97-inches wide and 0.83-inches thick. "The new color provides an exciting new option to an already successful product - in response to the needs of our customers," said Patrick Beattie, vice president of sales and marketing, Pantech Wireless, Inc. "The red Pantech duo delivers the perfect match for trendsetters that want their phone to readily match their sense of style." Read more

Posted on Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:02:49 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Pantech W61PT

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Pantech introduces the W61PT fashion phone in Japan.

KDDI will offer the W61PT via its CDMA 1X WIN network.
The 14mm thick phone features diamond shaped keys and a shiny surface in either pink, white, or black. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech Duo available on AT&T

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AT&T and Pantech announced on Monday the Pantech Duo.

This dual slide Windows smartphone supports 3G HSDPA and GRPS/EDGE Quad band connectivity.
Other features of the Pantech Duo include 2.2 inch screen with QVGA resolution, 1.3MP camera, music player, slide-out QWERTY keyboard and stereo Bluetooth. Read more

Posted on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech Dolphin HSDPA IM-U220 Mobile Phone

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Pantech introduces the IM-U220 and IM-U220K, two curved sliders dubbed Dolphin.

The Dolphin name is derived from the curved shape of this white slider.
The new Pantech handsets support 7.2Mbps download speeds. Read more

Posted on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Pantech Shooting Star IM-U200 pioneers a futuristic Design

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Pantech introduces a cool new mobile phone dubbed Shooting Star (IM-U200).

Pantech compares the shape of the IM-U200 with that of an space ship, and they are not that wrong with that. The clamshell phone, does not flip open as others, the cover swivels to the side.

The feature set itself is not that impressive of the IM-U200. The design is very futuristic though. The keypad for instance looks like a membrane of sorts. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:48:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech ultra-slim DMB TV Phone IM-S230

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Pantech announces the IM-S230 DMB TV phone, which is only 9.9mm thin.

The stylish new slider style Pantech IM-S320 features a 2.2 inch screen, 1.3MP camera, document viewer, electronic dictionary and MP3 player.

More technical details have not been released at this point in time. Read more

Posted on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:30:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

More Photos of the Cool Pantech IM-R200 OLED Keyboard Phone

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Korean AVing brings us several close-up photos of the new Pantech touch-screen keypad IM-R200 handset highlighting the user interface.

Pantech announced the innovative IM-R200 on Wednesday. The slider phone uses a touch-sensitive color screen as keypad. Pantech designed the virtual touch keypad with capacitive sensor technology. The screen even vibrates when pressed to give the user tactile feedback. The virtual keypad screen has a size of 1.6 inch and 260k colors. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 May 2007 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Pantech IM-R200 offers an OLED Touch Screen Keypad

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Korean mobile phone manufacturer Pantech announces the IM-R200 handset.

The Pantech IM-R200 is dual-LCD sliding phone equipped with an OLED touch-sensitive screen.

The innovative OLED touch-screen keyboard reminds me on the much hyped Optimus OLED Keyboard. Pantech designed the virtual touch keypad with capacitive sensor technology. The screen even vibrates when pressed to give the user tactile feedback. The virtual keypad screen has a size of 1.6 inch and 260k colors.

Another feature that I did not hear about to be featured in a phone is the face recognition of the 2MP camera in the IM-R200. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 May 2007 02:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech 3G U4000 Coming to French M6 Mobile

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Korean handset manufacturer Pantech announces a deal with M6 Mobile in France.

Pantech will supply their U4000 3G Slider phone to M6 Mobile.
The U4000 must be popular with the French. We already reported that Orange is offering the U4000 in France a while ago.
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Posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:45:18 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech IM-U160 DMB Phone with 2.6 inch Wide Screen

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Pantech announces the IM-U160 DMB mobile phone with a 2.6 inch wide-screen display.

The Pantech IM-U160 features besides DMB TV a 2MP camera, MP3 player, document viewer, multi-tasking and GPS. Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech U4000 3G Mobile Comes from Orange in France

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Korean Pantech landed a deal with Orange in France for the U4000 UMTS mobile phone.

The Pantech U-4000 features a 1.3MP camera, 1.9 inch 260k color screen, microSD slot, mp3 player, Bluetooth, WAP 2.0, and MP3 ring tones. Read more

Posted on Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:48:14 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr