Pantech Reveal now available at AT&T, $80 on contract
Announced at the same time with Samsung Mythic, Samsung Flight and Pantech Impact, the Pantech Reveal C790 is now available for purchase via AT&T. Previously known as Pantech Aladdin, the Reveal is a slider phone that features an alphanumeric keypad, as well as a full QWERTY one. The keypads are simultaneously active, “providing a truly [...]
Pantech Sky DuPont luxury phone now available
Announced by Pantech a few weeks ago, the Sky DuPont IM-U510LE luxury phone is now available in South Korea via SK Telecom, the country’s largest mobile carrier. The Sky DuPont is a full-touch candybar with golden accents, designed to remind users of the DuPont lighters’ look. The phone, which measures 106.8 x 50.8 x 11.15 [...]
Verizon’s Pantech Razzle TXT8030 in official photos
Verizon is getting ready to release a really weird Pantech phone, called Razzle TXT8030. The bottom of Pantech Razzle TXT8030 has two sides and it can be rotated, transforming the handset in either a full QWERTY phone, or in a device that looks more like a Portable Music Player (with stereo speakers and dedicated controls). [...]
Pantech announces Sky DuPont IM-U510LE luxury phone
Like Prada, Armani and Dolce&Gabbana before it, the French company S.T. DuPont has decided to enter the mobile market by making a cell phone in collaboration with a big manufacturer. The manufacturer is Pantech, South Korea’s third largest handset maker, and the new phone is Pantech Sky DuPont IM-U510LE. The DuPont phone was announced today [...]
Pantech C790 Aladdin confirmed for AT&T
One of AT&T’s upcoming messaging phones is the Pantech C790, also called Pantech Aladdin – perhaps after Disney’s beloved character? The C790 Aladdin has been recently approved by the Bluetooth SIG, so it might not be long until AT&T announces it. Like other Pantech phones released by AT&T (the Matrix Pro, for example), the Pantech [...]
Qualcomm takes equity in South Korea’s Pantech
Pantech, South Korea’s third largest phone maker, announced that Qualcomm would become a minority shareholder in both Pantech Co. Ltd. and Pantech & Curitel Communications Inc., as a result of the Korean company’s plan to convert its “outstanding debt” into equity for its creditors. Qualcomm will become a passive investor, holding no more than 15% [...]
Pantech doublEye IM-U490S slider launched
Continuing its somewhat clever way of naming products (remember the TruEmotion UI?), Pantech has just launched a new phone, dubbed Pantech doublEye IM-U490S. Released under the Sky brand, Pantech doublEye is a slider that has a Picture-in-picture feature and lets you use the photo camera and the video camera at the same time. The phone [...]
O2 Xda Venn launched – a British Pantech Matrix Pro
O2 UK has just launched a new smartphone from its Xda series – the Xda Venn. The Venn is actually a rebranded version of the Pantech Matrix Pro, which is already available in the US, via AT&T. Coming with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard on board, O2 Xda Venn features two sliding keypads: an alphanumeric and [...]
Pantech IM-R470S with unconverted video playback launched
First seen last month, when Pantech announced its new TruEmotion 3D User Interface, the IM-R470S touchscreen phone is now available in South Korea, via SK Telecom. Launched under Pantech’s Sky brand, the IM-R470S seems to be a great multimedia device. It can play unconverted video files (H.264, MPEG4, DivX, XviD) and display them on the [...]
Pantech Love Actually IM-U460K touchscreen phone announced
Pantech has unveiled a new touchscreen phone for the Korean market, the IM-U460K, which will be sold under the unusual name of Pantech Love Actually. The handset has a simple, elegant design, and it comes with pretty-colored changeable back plates. Measuring 104.9 x 54.6 x 12 millimeters, the Pantech Love Actually features a 3 inch [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
$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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]