AT&T intros the Pantech Crossover P8000 with Android 2.2
Previously known as Pantech Moon and Pantech Bannik, the P8000 has been officially announced by AT&T under the name of Pantech Crossover. The Crossover is Pantech’s first Android smartphone made for the US market. It runs Android 2.2 Froyo, and features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 3.1 inch touchscreen display of unknown resolution (I’d say [...]
Pantech has the world’s first 1.5 GHz dual-core phone, only available in Korea
If you are interested in dual-core smartphones, you’ll be excited to hear about the latest superphone from an unexpected manufacturer. Pantech may not have a very large presence in the smartphone market in the US, but it does pretty well back at home in Korea. The latest addition to their roster is the Vega Racer, [...]
Pantech Vega X – the first Android phone DDR2 memory?
Pantech has officially unveiled a new Android smartpohne – the Vega X (we first heard of it last week, when the Dell Venue was announced). Slated to be available in South Korea later this week via KT and LG Telecom, the Pantech Vega X runs Android 2.2 Froyo and features a 4 inch WVGA touchscreen [...]
P8000 Moon might be Pantech’s first Android phone for AT&T
AT&T has launched many Pantech phones until now, but none of them is running Android. Well, that’s about to change with the arrival of P8000, an unannounced Android smartphone that was recently approved by the FCC with support for AT&T 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. According to the Bluetooth SIG, the handset is called Pantech Moon [...]
Verizon’s Pantech UML290 4G LTE modem available tomorrow, too
Earlier this week, when Verizon announced that its 4G LTE network would go live on December 5 (i.e. tomorrow), it said that only the LG VL600 modem would be available for the beginning. However, it turns out that there will be two modems launched tomorrow. Apart form the LG one, customers will also be able [...]
Verizon announces new phones: LG Octane VN530 and Pantech Crux
Verizon Wireless has announced the launch of two new feature phones priced at under $100 on contract and available starting tomorrow: LG Octane VN530 and Pantech Crux (both mentioned in Verizon’s fall roadmap leaked in August). The LG Octane is a curious mix between the LG Cosmos and the LG enV Touch. It features a [...]
AT&T announces its first LTE-compatible device and new Pantech Laser QWERTY phone
AT&T has yet to roll out its LTE/4G network, but that doesn’t mean it can’t announce LTE-compatible devices, right? The first AT&T device capable of supporting LTE is the LG Adrenaline USB dongle – which will receive a software upgrade to work on the carrier’s 4G network when this launches (sometime in 2011). Until then, [...]
AT&T roadmap leak: Motorola Flipout on Sunday, Samsung WP7 devices on October 17th?
It’s leak time again. This time, a roadmap for AT&T’s launches for the next month or so has apparently surfaced. These all have rumor status as of now, so have the standard-sized pinch of salt near while you read through. First, there’s the Motorola Flipout, supposedly launching no later than this Sunday. This square-ish device [...]
Verizon fall roadmap leaked: 10 MP Android, BlackBerry Storm 3 and Curve 3, tablets and more
Since the summer is nearing its end, it’s only natural that Verizon’s roadmap for September, October and November would be leaked. After all, we’ve gotten used to knowing all there is about the Big Red’s upcoming launches months before they happen. So here’s what Verizon has in store for us this fall. In September, the [...]
Pantech makes dual SIM phones, too: P4000 and P1000 (video)
Pantech P4000 and Pantech P1000 are two new phones that, surprisingly, feature dual SIM capabilities. I say “surprisingly” because I had no idea Pantech wanted to enter the dual SIM phone market. And yet it did. Pantech Italy’s website presents both the P4000 and P1000, and they seem to be available only in Italy at [...]
AT&T’s Pantech Pursuit. Quick review
Word of the Pantech Pursuit, one of Pantech’s latest touchscreen phones, hit the wires earlier this year in an AT&T press release alongside several other like-minded Quick Messaging Devices (QMD), including the Pantech Link, Samsung Strive, and Samsung Sunburst. The Samsung phones were pictured all over the place, but Pantech was much more shy, only [...]
Pantech Jest, Samsung Haven and N150 stand next to the Droid X in Verizon coming soon list
In case you’re not interested in Verizon’s Motorola Droid X or Samsung Fascinate, you should know that the largest US carrier is also getting ready to launch some cheaper phones: the Pantech Jest and the Samsung Haven u320. PhoneArena has managed to obtain a list of devices that are coming soon to Verizon and, of [...]
Pantech A630K is the first Android phone designed for women
Pantech has announced its second Android smartphone, the IM-A630K “Crystal de Izar”, which comes not long after the Sirius IM-A600S – which, of course, is the company’s first handset based on Google’s OS. The Pantech A630K is designed specifically for women and comes with an interesting bottom – it looks like some sort of a [...]
Pantech Ease QWERTY phone introduced by AT&T
Alongside the Android-based HTC Aria, today AT&T has also announced the Pantech Ease, a touchscreen featurephone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. According to the second-largest US carrier, the new Pantech device is its “first quick messaging phone with menus and features designed for users who seek simplicity in their wireless device” – and that explains [...]
Google Nexus One coming to Korea next month. Android 2.2 Froyo promised for the Pantech Sirius
Google Nexus One will be available in South Korea starting late June, and the carrier to offer it is KT, the country’s second largest mobile operator. The price for the Nexus One in Korea was not disclosed. KT says that the smartphone (the world’s first to get Android 2.2) will be available both online and [...]
Pantech launches SKY Check Mate IM-S610K for Korea Telecom
While inches and megapixels get superseded pretty fast in the upgrade-crazy technologically advanced world of today, Korean mobile phone maker Pantech knows one thing that never gets old: style. That’s what its newest phone, the SKY Check Mate IM-S610K made for Korea Telecom, brings to the table. It may not be oozing in sex appeal [...]
Pantech Sirius with Android 2.1 and Snapdragon processor announced; Verizon and AT&T might get it
Pantech, South Korea’s third-largest phone maker, has just announced its first Android device, the Pantech Sirius IM-A600S. The Sirius is a thin (11.5 mm) full-touch smartphone with features that put it next to the likes of Google Nexus One and HTC Desire. The handset runs Android 2.1 and comes with a 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED [...]
AT&T intros Samsung Strive, Samsung Sunburst, Pantech Link, Pantech Pursuit, new services
AT&T has just announced its 2010 spring portfolio of “quick messaging devices” (which includes two phones made by Samsung and two made by Pantech), as well as new cloud-based services for them. Let’s talk about the new services first. AT&T Mobile Share provides users with their own web-based storage locker called “AT&T Locker”. This enables [...]
Pantech P9020 QWERTY phone for AT&T passes the FCC
Pantech and AT&T have always been good friends, and lately they’ve been pushing out weirdly-designed phones, like the Pantech Reveal and Pantech Impact. Also weird is the Pantech P9020, which has just received FCC’s blessing to be used on the GSM 850/1900 and WCDMA 850/1900 bands. The User Manual of Pantech P9020 includes references to [...]
AT&T launches the Pantech Impact for $99.99 on contract
First announced by AT&T at the beginning of October, the Pantech Impact will be available starting this Sunday (22 November). The Impact is a weird messaging phone, featuring a “high-gloss faceplate” with haptic-enabled keys, and a full QWERTY keyboard. The handset also has two displays: a small external one and a larger internal one. Other [...]