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For Android users and those who are ready to jump ship (or jump into) the Google mobile operating system at 4G speeds, there’s a relatively low-cost smartphone coming your way: the under-$100 Pantech Breakout. Coming out Thursday (Sept.22), it’ll be available through Verizon Wireless for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. As is common practice with so many companies now, the rebate will come in the form of a debit card to be used anywhere you’d normally use one. In contrast, the recently released dual-core Motorola Droid Bionic retails for $299.99.  The phone is being promoted as a 4G/Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)/one gigahertz processor-powered (non-Droid) device with download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in 4G mobile broadband coverage areas. If you have one of these, you may very well be the life of the online party when others can’t get a fix on the free Wi-Fi: the Breakout can also serve as a 4G LTE mobile hotspot that can support up to 10 Wi-Fi devices.  It also comes with a sizable, 4-inch touchscreen and pre-loaded with YouTube, Google Maps and a host of other Google products. Apps and other downloads should be able to fit on its 8 GB pre-installed microSD card. Its on-screen QWERTY keyboard also incorporate Swype, so you can write your texts in fluid lines vs. tapping. It may not be for everyone, but if you get the hang of it, it can prove addictive. Like any good smartphone, the Breakout comes with a camera — two, in fact. The rear-facing 5-megapixel one can capture HD video (up to 720p), while the front-facing camera can do still shots and be used for on-the-go video chats.  Safer, hands-free talking will also be easy with Bluetooth 3.0.  Customers who buy a Pantech Breakout smartphone will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan beginning at $39.99 for monthly access and a smartphone data package starting at $30 monthly access for 2 GB of data.

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Pantech has produced its second Android smartphone, the IM-A630K “Crystal de Izar”, which comes not long after the Sirius IM-A600S – which is the company’s first mobile devise 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 crystal, and it can light up in different colors, apparently depending on what functions of the handset you’re using.

The phone’s other features include a 3.2 inch WVGA touchscreen display, Bluetooth, T-DMB TV tuner, a 5MP camera and a 4GB memory card preinstalled.

The Pantech A630K should be available in South Korea  from July. Like the Sirius, the new smartphone will receive an Android 2.2 Froyo update later this year.

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Pantech Wireless said that the Pantech Link is available to AT&T users in stores and online immediately. Link is Pantech’s latest gadjet to AT&T’s portfolio of quick messaging phones (QMPs), a fast-growing category of handsets popular for full keyboards, advanced services and full browsers. By featuring the full keyboard under an ultra thin (under 10 mm) frame, and a suite of AT&T services including AT&T Social Net and the new AT&T Mobile Share, Pantech Link proves that it is the slimmest way to stay connected to your social life.

Pantech Link handset: Pantech Link’s specialty is messaging, and just like the name implies, its contemporary design is ideal for keeping people connected to the most important parts of their personal life. An extra-large LCD screen complements Pantech Link’s slim casing, and a full keyboard helps kick out messages in a snap – sending full texts, multimedia messages, email, and instant messages. Pantech Link brings you into contact with your online world at 3G speeds, allowing for profiles to be effortlessly updated with pictures and videos, and Web pages to be swiftly surfed. Black and blue accenting combines with a high gloss finish to make the most of its sleek shape.

Pantech Link features

• Ultra Thin Design – Measuring under 10mm, Link slides discreetly into the pocket of a favorite pair of jeans or summer button-down.

• Quick Access to Messages – A full QWERTY keyboard helps send a wide range of messages in seconds – stay in touch with friends via text, email, picture mail, video messages, email, and IMs.

• Easy Contact Management – AT&T Address Book is a service that allows users to manage and backup contacts via the Web at no additional cost.

• Web and Social Media @ 3G – Browse the Web at the speed of 3G, while using AT&T Mobile Share to view and upload photos to any number of social networking sites in one place.

• Music: Manage it – Use the onboard song equalizer to adjust the levels of music files, make and manage playlists using Napster and eMusic through AT&T Music.

• Video and Camera – An integrated 1.3MP CMoS camera incorporates a range of customizable resolutions and picture taking controls.

Pantech Link available via AT&T: Quick messaging phone users more frequently look to their mobile phone for advanced services and apps and Pantech Link has some of the best. AT&T Social Net can be used to quickly view and update online profiles with one hub. AT&T Mobile Share makes it easy to store, view, and share pictures and video. Whenever on the move, running errands or hanging with friends, AT&T Navigator is there to guide you with turn-by-turn directions.

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Two years have passed since AT&T and Pantech launched the first Breeze mobile phones and now here’s finally a follow-up for the handset. We’re talking about the Pantech breEZe II, pictured below and detailed after the break. Though all eyes were likely on the Palm Pre Plus dummy units that shipped in the same box, the Pantech Breeze II clamshell phone is worth a look – and as of today, it’s available at AT&T.

The new phone comes with an external display, 3G, Stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera and a microSD card slot(up to 32GB), 80MB of internal memory. On the outside of the device you’ll find external LED “notifiers”, plus 3 EZ One-Touch Quick-Call keys and a large keypad. Pantech breEZe II also incorporates GPS, a 2.2-inch 320 x 240 QVGA internal display and and supports GSM/GPRS (850/900/1800/900 MHz) connectivity. It’s meant to be popular among senior users.

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Pantech, owner of brand SKY, has introduced its latest mobile device in South Korea, called Pantech SKY Check Mate IM-S610K. While inches and megapixels get superseded pretty fast in the upgrade-crazy technologically advanced world of today, Korean handset 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.

The Pantech SKY Check Mate IM-S610K is a clamshell phone, which features a 2.6-inch display with a resolution of 240×320 pixels (QVGA), 2 megapixel camera, secondary camera for video calls, Bluetooth, e-dictionary, subway maps, T-DMB, 36MB internal memory and a microSD card slot.

The Pantech SKY Check Mate IM-S610K clamshell handset is equipped with an external display with standard clock, date, display emoticons, biorhythms charts, and other useful information.

The Pantech SKY Check Mate IM-S610K clamshell phone will be available in South Korea market through KT mobile operator. Pantech SKY Check Mate IM-S610K will be offered in three color options, white, titanium and silver (all versions have a black color insert).

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South Korean company Pantech, under the brand SKY, released in his homeland a new smartphone model SKY IM-U590S Pandora. Novelty got its name in honor of the Greek goddess and symbol of hope, which according to legend was left at the bottom of Pandora’s box. This phone uses an original design and a thin case, that’s only 9.1mm thick.

What makes this Pantech mobile phone be different from the rest is that it helps users relax thanks to the different colored lights that show up below the 3-inch touchscreen. Maybe this amasing “feature” won’t work with everyone but I guess it might work with a few…

The Smart Phone’s technical specifications include: support for networks of standards GSM / GPRS and UMTS / HSDPA, 3-dyumovy touchscreen display with a resolution of 240×400 pixels, 3-megapixel camera with autofocus, front camera for video calls, module Wi-Fi, Module Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, Infrared, TV tuner that works in the standard T-DMB, as well as 206 MB of internal memory, which can increase the volume using the memory card format microSD. Dimensions SKY IM-U590S Pandora equal 121,8 x51, 8×9, 1 mm, and weight is 102 g.

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The South Korea’s third-biggest handset manufacture, Pantech has announced its latest Android device, named Pantech Sirius IM-A600S. This mobile phone is boasts 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, which is provides ability to processing of 3D and 720p HD video.This smartphone has brings a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display with resolution of 800×480 pixels, a 5MP autofocus camera, T-DMB, and Wi-Fi. The Sirius is equipped with 500MB of internal memory, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), and HDMI. Size of Pantech Sirius IM-A600S is 123.5 x 63.5 x 11.5 mm and weight 128g. It is running on Android 2.1 OS.

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South Korean phone maker Pantech recently introduced a mobile phone dubbed Webholic and also known as Pantech IM-U570K. The device will be available via local carrier KT and it comes with a widescreen touch display and a digital TV tuner with T-DMB support.
On board of the handset you’ll find Bluetooth support, WLAN, WCDMA and GSM connectivity and a 3 megapixel camera, plus a microSD card slot and VoIP support.

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Joining the fast-filling host of fascinating mobile gadgets, Pantech Wireless has freshly resolute to bring Impact to AT&T consumers. The second Pantech phone to smack shelves this holiday season comes in ravishing vivid blue and squashy pink blush and offers an innovative shape factor to AT&T’s row of rapid messaging phones.

Aiming to carry out as its name, Impact cuddles a high-gloss faceplate with a haptic answer touchpad, two screens and a complete hidden keyboard. There is a beaming huddle of social and multimedia alternatives also to formulate managing the whole mobile life exhilarating and stirring.

“Our customers expect the very latest in trendsetting mobile phones from Pantech, and Impact really delivers,” commented Jim Berridge, executive of Sales and Marketing, Pantech Wireless, Inc. “By combing everyone’s favorite social and multimedia options, along with a new form factor which features an interactive touchpad, Impact is a first for both Pantech and AT&T.”

Furthermore, the Impact features a complete QWERTY keyboard, a great color screen and speakers beside shortcut keys to IM, text, email and multitasking features. The eminently rapid 3G network creates surfing the Web, checking newsfeeds and streaming music and video quick and unforced.

Its included AT&T Navigator proposes voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions at the same time. At present, take and share fascinating photographs and video snips using multimedia messaging and AT&T Mobile Email. It even comes pre-loaded with AT&T’s newest HTML mobile browser and net service, which mingles the perceptible complete and fast HTML browsing with norm features for personalizing preferred bookmarks and local explores

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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 also comes with a 2.6-inch QVGA display, animated Flash menu, widgets support, HSPDA (7.2Mbps), DMB-TV tuner, music player, 3MP camera, 130MB of internal memory and MicroSD card support.

The price of Pantech doublEye is of 400,000 South Korean won (about $328). The phone is sold via SK Telecom and it probably won’t be released outside Korea.

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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 a full QWERTY one.

The smartphone is a bit bulky, measuring 21mm in thickness, but at least it looks pretty good:

Its main specs include

* GSM and HSDPA connectivity
* 2.4 inch QVGA display
* GPS
* Wi-Fi
* Bluetooth
* 2MP camera

The price of Xda Venn is not known, but it looks like you can buy one from O2 UK’s website.

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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 3.2 inch WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) Sharp LCD screen, which has a 160 degree viewing angle.

The phone also features the already-mentioned TruEmotion 3D Cube UI, accelerometer, proximity sensor, DMB TV tuner, Back Ground Play, Picture in Picture, GPS, Bluetooth, a 3MP autofocus camera, and 4GB of internal memory.

The IM-R470S is a Korea-only handset, but let’s hope that Pantech will launch similar phones (with the TrueEmotion UI) outside its home country soon.

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