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Pantech, South Korea’s third largest handset manufacturer, is doing a very good job, not only in its country, but also on the US market, especially since the company has recently announced two new phones ( the Matrix and the Slate) for AT&T, the most important provider of both local and long distance telephone services, DSL Internet access and wireless service in the United States.

The Pantech Design Community, comprised of 20 college students, has come up with four new concept phones that Pantech might someday build. You must agree with the fact that some companies are prolific at this time of year, and Pantech surely does not make an exception!

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The first concept is called Coralliform Water and it was obviously inspired by the sea and the underwater life. Being a slider, the phone somehow looks like a budding flower when it’s closed. There were no specifications given, but the device seems to have a touchscreen display and a camera. Even if this phone looks like being targeted at the fairer sex and like fitting better in a lady’s hands, I bet that gentlemen won’t mind having one.

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The Easter Moai had been made with a view to articulate the “multifaceted nature of human beings”. It features a “wave” touchscreen LCD, a touch key, a dome key and lots of other keys on its sides, which are put there in order to increase the phone’s functionality. The thing that really looks different is the included support that fits the phone perfectly.



Recy_Q is a full touchscreen phone that features a sliding QWERTY keyboard and touch keys which are embedded in the metal frame, for an easier control over its User Interface. Recyclable material should be used for the case and the keypad. I’m not sure about how those tiny “wings” of the phone would feel in hand, but on the whole the device looks good.



Softy Lofty is the fourth new Pantech concept, and maybe the wackiest of them all, because we just can’t figure out where the display of this phone is. All we’re said about this strange design is that it’s supposed to “offer as much visual and emotional comfort as possible” and to emit a vague light when re-charged.



To conclude, all the four Pantech phones look really inviting, but it would really be interesting to see those concepts turning into reality.

(Source concept-phones.com)

Yesterday Pantech and AT&T announced the Korean company’s latest flip phone, C610, which will become one of AT&T’s best equipped budget phones. Usually, thinking about high-end feature phones, Pantech doesn’t normally come to mind, because most Pantech handsets are of the lower-end variety. Nevertheless, the new C610 it’s a bit of a surprise. If at first glance, you can easily mistake it for some other flip phone, underneath its outer outfit there’s a fine device, a high-speed multimedia handset, equipped with advanced technologies such as HSDPA and GPS.

At the present, every phone manufacturer is caught in the middle of the fight for the next best smartphone. In the meantime, AT&T decided to improve the lower end of its phone offerings, so it introduced the Pantech C610, a phone boasting a wide variety of features that one can usually find on expensive phones.

The minimalist phone has a vibrant red hue and shiny chrome accents, and therefore a pretty minimalist design. It measures 3.67 x 1.81 x 0.72 and weighs 3.25 ounces, so it feels very lightweight when carrying it in your pocket. On the front, you can easily see the camera lens, placed at the top, and the 1-inch external display which supports 65,000 colors, which can be used for photo caller ID. The camera can’t be activated when the phone is closed, so if you’re the narcissist type of guy, you’ll have to open the phone for self-portraits.

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When you open the phone, you’ll find a 2.0-inches display with a resolution of 1280 x 1040 pixels. There is an option for you to adjust the backlight timer, the brightness, the font style (Gothic or Free style), the color theme and the menu type (List or Grid), but one thing that can’t be modified is the font size.

The navigation array is quite annoying because the keys are completely flat and certain buttons (take the Clear key or the arrow keys for examples) are a little too small. A great disadvantage is the fact that the keys are not very visible, as there’s no delineation, while the keypad itself is crowded. And you know how irritating it is for one to not be able to properly dial and text.



The Pantech C610 has a 500-entry address book and for each entry there is enough room for five different numbers, two e-mail addresses, a Web URL, a street address and a memo. If you want, you can arrange contacts by groups and pair them with a photo or one of the 10 polyphonic ring tones especially designed for caller ID. In addition, the phone features text and multimedia messaging, a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, a calendar, an alarm clock, a notepad, a calculator, a tasks list, a stop watch and a unit converter. But these are usual features for phones nowadays, so you might get excited about the voice-command support, the voice-memo recording, a mobile Web browser, e-mail support (for Yahoo, AOL, AIM, Windows Live, AT&T Yahoo and BellSouth accounts), instant messaging (AIM, Windows Live and Yahoo Messenger), stereo Bluetooth and GPS support (via AT&T Navigator).



The most important feature of the Pantech C610 is that it has 3G/HSDPA, which facilitates the the access to AT&T’s 3G services. Therefore, you can enjoy AT&T Mobile Music (letting you stream and download music from Napster and eMusic), AT&T streaming video and AT&T Video Share. The AT&T Video Share is a live video-sharing service that lets you stream one-way video to another Video Share-compatible phone.

As far as the music is concerned, the C610 has an integrated music player and supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, MMF and WAV audio formats. The phone comes with an internal memory of only 12MB, but there’s a microSD-card slot to additional storage (of up to 4GB).

The pictures can be taken by the 1.3 megapixel camera in six different resolutions (1280 x 1024, 1024 x 768, 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 176 x 220 and 176 x 144); there are four white-balance settings, four color effects and three quality settings, while other camera features consist of a self-timer, a timer-sound toggle and a shutter-sound toggle.

The Pantech C610 provides of up to 3 hours of talk time and up to 10 days of standby time and it’s immediately available from AT&T for $49 with a two-year contract, making it one of the most affordable 3G phones around.

(Source news.cnet.com)

Looking for a simple cell phone? After reading its presentation I can describe it as a mid-level mobile phone with features dedicated to those of you that don’t need complicated technology in the pocket. The clamshell here is available in Japan only and can be used by anyone who hasn’t much experience with these handsets. Included in this category are children who need just to call their parents from school and older people who will rely on an emergency companion.
Features strengthening this idea are the font size, lamp, keys, strap hole, icons on the screen, incoming communication tones, ringtones and the clock.



Maybe you are not in the mood to type or you have some problems with the finger. In such cases, Pantech's new simple cell phones will read for you all the information need, while another helpful tool for using these handsets is the pre-loaded manual.
To make the use even simpler, Pantech added a special capability meant to indicate the next key you have to press by lighting it on the keypad using the backlight technology and light manipulation. For example, after you took a picture the handset lights up the Ok button.

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Pantech-au W62PT is the fifth cell phone released by KDDI with smart functionalities as well as a stylish look, coming in pink, gold and silver colors.
Its 3G capability enables high-speed data rates thanks to the CDMA 1X EV-DO WIN technology.
Using a complex frequency calibration technology, the Simple Phone adjusts the incoming sound for people with hearing disabilities.

The phone’s menu has 2 modes, a simple mode and a common mode with a Simple Manual featuring clear illustrations and easy to read text descriptions.
For emergencies or just as a shortcut to your needs, you can assign specific numbers to 3 hotkeys, while the GPS Connected Security Buzzer will send emails automatically to specific contacts set by you previously.

Pantech C600 is a new 3G cell phone launched by Pantech in Mexico at TELCEL communication operator. It is a flip phone model optimized for multimedia support with MP3 music player, video player, video calling, Bluetooth wireless transfers, and expandable memory.
It comes in Blue and Red, in combination with white and black, being the first Pantech’s 3G model available in Mexico. These colors were chosen after surveying Mexicans about their tastes.

“Pantech Group has surveyed the taste and life style of local customers and reflected them in planning and development of the product. C600 is designed as primary colors to meet the needs fully in the Mexican market where demand of 3G is increasing. Pantech Group is making effort to take leadership in Mexican 3G handset market,” declared Pantech.



The previous model released at the end of 2007 was promoted using the image of the popular RBD group, and was a success. The C510 is a music phone available in 4 colors, and was the base model for the C600 3G cell phone.

The latest cell phone works on UMTS dual-band 850/1900MHz frequencies, supporting quad-band GPRS/EDGE, and measures 90.3 x 44.8 x 18.7 mm at 77.4 grams. It features a main 1.8-inch TFT display of 260K colors and with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels, while the external CSTN display of 96 x96 pixels is a 65K-color.

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The built-in camera is a 1.3MP and the one for video calls is a 0.3MP VGA type, while the handset also comes with support for MP3, AAC and AAC+ audio formats, MPEG4/H.263/WMA/WMV videos, allowing the user to add more storage via a microSD card.
It has stereo Bluetooth and USB connectivity.

Pantech C600 is an entry-level cell phone to be used for basic applications, and integrates a 930mAh Li-Ion battery lasting up to 3 hours of talk time and 250 hours of standby. The built-in camera has LED flash and self-timer for taking pictures on the go, stored in the 25MB internal memory. Mexicans can use it to access the Internet via WAP, set picture IDs and specific ringtones for the 800 contacts in the phone book, send emails, play with applications like alarm, calendar, calculator, stopwatch, world clock, converter and memo, or talk on the phone using the speaker capability.

There are three days more until the Valentine’s Day and you still have plenty of time to search all the stores for a great gift for your lover.
Pantech duo has just debuted in red at AT&T for this occasion and it features 3G and a cool dual-slide double-keyboard design, with a 240 x 320 pixels display, and Windows Mobile 6 with its specific Office Mobile applications.

You can browse the Internet via Internet Explorer and play your music using Windows Mobile 10 Mobile.
The Smartphone supports stereo Bluetooth technology, has Push Personal/enterprise e-mail services, Mobile Music via AT&T, XM Radio, CV video service, multimedia messaging, Instant Messaging, and you can find it at $200 in AT&T retail stores.

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"The new color provides an exciting new option to an already successful product - in response to the needs of our customers," declared Patrick Beattie, vice president of sales and marketing, Pantech Wireless. "The red Pantech duo delivers the perfect match for trendsetters that want their phone to readily match their sense of style."