Samsung and Pantech are direct competitors, and, even more, they're from the same country, South Korea, together with LG. According to a press release today, the announcement says that Samsung buys stake in Pantech. 10%, to be more specific, according to the wording. That tenth slice will cost Samsung 53 billion won (about $47.6 million), but, on the long run, it is believed to further strengthen "bilateral cooperation in smartphone and other business areas". With this move Samsung becomes the third largest stake holder in Pantech, after chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. with its 11.96% and the ...

The Pantech Vega Iron sprung up on us out of nowhere earlier this month, and what we heard made it out to be a pretty solid high-end Android, with a "bezel-less" edge-to-edge screen. Rumors suggested that Pantech would announce the phone on April 18, and sure enough, today the Vega Iron goes official. Unfortunately, not all of its specs live up to what was rumored. Take that no-bezel design, for instance. Now, we're willing to give Pantech a pass here since no one really expected absolutely no bezel whatsoever, and instead we've just gotten a fantastically thin one: we're talking 2.4 ...

Last week, we found ourselves intrigued by rumors of a heavyweight new Pantech Android in the works, the Pantech Vega Iron. It was supposed to have a great full HD screen with no noticeable bezel, and hardware specs that would put it on equal footing with the 1080p phones from the major Android players. With a rumored launch date of April 18, it was clear we'd be getting the full story on these claims quite soon, whether all the details ended up confirmed or not. As we close in on that date, some possible images of the Vega Iron have arrived for us to check out. We've got to say – this ...

Overnight we told you about a rumored upcoming Pantech smartphone – we know, it can be hard to care about Pantech, but this model IM-A870, supposedly an essentially bezel-free five-incher, sounded more interesting than most. Today we get some new details on the phone, including info on when it might launch. First up, we now have a name for the flagship, which could arrive as the Vega Iron. Its five-inch screen would unsurprisingly be a 1080p component, and the handset would be powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 600 running at 1.7GHz. It would have 2GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel camera, and ...

Last month, we saw some evidence that Android underdog Pantech was looking to jump on the 1080p bandwagon with everyone else, and that its model IM-A860 could be the phone it used to do so. Today, the company comes through with confirmation of that model, but unlike the five-inch full HD handsets that other manufacturers are releasing, Pantech seems to be going for something a little more like Huawei's Ascend Mate, announcing the 5.9-inch Vega No. 6. As has become the gold standard for full HD phones, the Vega No. 6 runs a quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU and has 2GB of RAM. There's ...

Veni, vidi, vici! We were looking forward to CES 2013, pretty much like we're always looking forward to trade shows where there's a possibility of seeing new and exciting things from and related to the mobile world. Good or bad as it was, this year's Vegas show is just one of many to come and, probably the biggest problem related to CES is the fact that it is followed shortly by MWC, a show related to mobile and only mobile. We're seeing companies slowly moving away from shows to announce their gadgets, following Apple's lead, but even those companies who are show-centric have probably ...

CES is the time of year when we're used to hearing official announcements, and seeing devices confirmed, not hearing new rumors or getting to check out unofficially-leaked info. Nevertheless, tonight we've got a newly-leaked press render from Pantech to show you, featuring what looks like the company's second 720p Android to come to the US. Sure, 1080p is all the rage now, but that just means that Pantech is able to put together some 720p devices with lower price points. We saw AT&T announce the 720p Pantech Discover earlier this week, and now this new leak reveals a similar smartphone ...

Verizon has posted a special section online dedicated for its Holiday deals. You can choose from three Motorola, an HTC, an LG and a Pantech phone, all at reduced prices; additionally, if you buy a Motorola DROID RAZR you get a Cranberry Motorola DROID RAZR for FREE, given that you sign a two-year contract per phone. The prices, as seen above, are below; all are 4G LTE phones: - HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE: $99.99 $49.99 - Motorola Droid RAZR M: $99.99 $49.99 - Motorola Droid RAZR HD: $199.99 $149.99 - Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX HD: $299.99 $249.99 - LG Lucid: $19.99 Free - Pantech ...