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 [...]
QWERTY fiesta from AT&T: Pantech Matrix, Samsung Propel, Pantech Slate and AT&T Quickfire
Verizon may have come up with one nice 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 [...]
Pantech IM-S380K announced – elegant Korean slider
After unveiling the IM-S350, it didn’t took Pantech long to announce its second mobile phone from the 2008 Pantech fall collection (if I may call it this way). The new handset is Pantech IM-S380K and, as the IM-S350, it’s launched under Pantech’s Sky brand, being targeted for the South Korean market. Sky IM-S380K comes in [...]
Hopes still alive for Helio Ocean 2, now as Umbrella
Remember the mobile phone called Helio OZ2, as it was known when the device was spotted on FCC earlier this summer. The Pantech made device was planned by Helio as Helio Ocean 2, but ever since Helio was taken over by Virgin Mobile in June, it disappeared from the news and everybody seems forgotten about [...]
Pantech sneaks dual-sliding Pantech Duo through Telcel in Mexico
Pantech demonstrates their rendition of a phone with a dual-sliding form factor in a handset that they call Pantech Duo. The same has just been launched in Mexico under the largest carrier, Telcel, where it should work mighty fine rocking fast 3G signals. The Pantech Duo features quite an innovative dual-sliding design, with both a [...]
Pantech Sky-branded IM-R300 enters touchscreen smartphone arena
Pantech has launched their very first touchscreen phone in Korea through SK Telecom, and it’s called the IM-R300 or the “Love Canvas”. The IM-R300 features a 2.6-inch, 400 x 240 pixel resolution, WQVGA LCD screen that will support touch gestures. It also packs a DMB TV Tuner, built-in GPS, 2 megapixel camera, music player and [...]
Pantech launches IM-U300K Neon-Sign Phone through KTF
Pantech continues to bring simplicity back to mobile phones with their latest model, called the IM-U300K, a.k.a. the “Neon-Sign Phone.” The selling point of the Neon-Sign Phone isn’t that it has the most advanced mobile Operating System, or that it features outstanding battery life, but the fact that it holds a total of 49 glowing [...]
AT&T now offering low-end Pantech Breeze
Not all disposable phones are created equal. Sometimes, such things come in more believable, although still rock bottom prices. The Pantech Breeze is an example of such a thing, and it is now available from AT&T. While Pantech says that the Breeze is a “breakthrough in intuitive cell phone design,” I think I’d rather stick [...]
Sky launches HSDPA handset fit for a Duke
Today, Korean handset maker Sky released what would be another stab at elegance by the company, in the form of an HSDPA slider phone called the Duke. The Sky Duke will feature no less than a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, built-in music and video players, a 1.3-megapixel camera and is made from glossy material. So in [...]
Pantech Sky IM-U200 phone from the future
Pantech may be on on the verge of bankruptcy, but that does not preclude it’s mobile phones division to churn out innovative and cool looking new phones. Just in the last few months we saw Pantech IM-R200 dual screen touchpad phone and 9.9 mm Pantech IM-R200 thinnest slider with DMB TV. And today comes the [...]
Pantech IM-S230 now the worlds slimmest slider. With DMB TV too
Pantech has launched a DMB TV capable slider – Pantech IM-S230. Coming in two colors – black and white this slider has 2.2″ display, 1.3 mpx camera, mp3 player, DMB TV tuner and electronic dictionary. But the most interesting feature for Pantech IM-S230 is it’s thickness – 9.9 mm. Looks like Samsung U600 Ultra Edition [...]
Pantech Sky IM-R200 With Touchscreen Keypad Gets Official
Few weeks ago Akihabara News have reported about the upcoming dual screen Pantech Sky IM-R200 phone. Today Pantech has made an official announcement about it: Promoted as a Dual LCD Sliding Phone, the most interesting feature about Pantech IM-R200 is its OLED touchscreen keypad, which replaces normal numerical keypad in this slider.