Pantech announces TruEmotion, its own 3D UI
Pantech, the third largest South Korean phone maker, has just announced that it developed its own 3D mobile UI, called TruEmotion – notice the spelling.
According to Pantech, the TruEmotion UI is simple, intuitive and dynamic, featuring three-dimensional transition effects.
It seems that now all the Korean cellphone vendors opted for a pretty similar 3D Cube UI [...]
Verizon to launch the Pantech Escapade WP8990VW world phone
Verizon’s line-up of world phones will soon be expanded with the addition of Pantech Escapade WP8990VW, a new, unannounced clamshell.
Being a world phone, the Pantech Escapade will come with a SIM card, so you’ll be abe to use it overseas on GSM networks.
The handset has mid to low-end features, including a QVGA internal display, a [...]
Pantech launches the WPP-8000 Wi-Fi phone
Today, Pantech has announced the WPP-8000, a device presented as its first Wi-Fi enabled phone.
Launched via LG Dacom, one of South Korea’s largest high-speed Internet, voice and data services providers, the WPP-8000 is not a regular phone (like the GSM or CDMA ones).
It uses LG Dacom’s myLG070 service, allowing users to access the Web via [...]
AT&T’s Pantech Matrix PRO now official
AT&T’s Pantech Duo finally has a successor: Pantech Matrix PRO, a Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone that was officially unveiled today.
Looking sleeker than the old Duo, the brand new Matrix PRO is 22 mm thick, but that’s obviously because it packs two sliding keyboards: a QWERTY and an alphanumeric one.
Apart from that, Pantech Matrix PRO (not [...]
Pantech Sky Wind with Emotion Engine is blow-controlled
Pantech may not be among the world’s major players in the mobile industry, but it’s surely a company that wants to bring innovative products.
The South Korean manufacturer has recently announced a new phone, Pantech Sky Wind IM-S410K, which can be controlled if you simply blow at it. This can be done thanks to the so-called Emotion [...]
Pantech Sky IM-S400L with Glide Sensor officially announced
Pantech has just introduced a sleek-looking phone that’s white as snow in Korea, called the Pantech Sky IM-S400L. It’s got a 2.6-inch LCD screen and features a new sensor technology called Glide that enables a user to navigate through the phone’s menus by using touch on the keypad.
Basically, the Glide Sensor makes the keypad usable [...]
$39 Pantech C630 launched tomorrow by AT&T
Pantech USA has just announced the release of Pantech C630, a phone that will be on sale starting tomorrow, December 12, offered by AT&T.
The C630 costs only $39 (with a 2-yr AT&T contract agreement), so it might be a perfect Christmas gift for all those in need of a new candybar.
Although it’s quite [...]
Pantech Duo 2 clears FCC
The still unannounced follow-up to the original dual keyboard-packing Pantech Duo has just been approved by the FCC. It came black as can be expected from a Pantech Duo phone, and throws a rather small amount of innovation to the table as far as features are concerned.
For what appears to be a small handset, the [...]
AT&T’s Pantech Slate available now – only 9.9mm in thickness
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 [...]
Four new Pantech phone concepts to feed your geeky dreams
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 [...]