The Pantech Magnus has been no stranger since the end of August but aside from AT&T as the carrier and little information about specs (including an eight-megapixel camera and at that time, Android 4.0 ICS) there was nothing further. The Pantech P9090 has also been rumored to be part of the AT&T line-up for Q4 as the Batsu. Even now, all we have is the above press render to go by. If the camera has been kept at the same eight-megapixel size is unknown; taking a look at the phone we're seeing on-screen buttons and a rather large screen (we wouldn't dare estimate its dimensions in ...

Samsung's success with the Galaxy note continues to reverberate throughout the smartphone ecosystem, and we're seeing more and more phones with plus-sized displays that reach for the five-inch mark. The latest to come to our attention is Pantech's Vega S5, which features what the manufacturer calls the thinnest bezel on any phone in its size class. The Vega S5's five-inch screen is an IPS LCD component, and features a respectable 720p resolution. The ICS handset runs a Snapdragon S4 chip and is powered by a 2100mAh battery. On the rear, we've got a thirteen-megapixel main camera with LED ...

Pantech continues to struggle to make a name for itself on the global scene as a smartphone manufacturer, despite releasing several models that, on paper at least, sound like some pretty high-end smartphones. The latest to be revealed is the follow-up to the Vega Racer we first heard about in May of last year, the Snapdragon S4-powered Vega Racer 2. Besides a powerhouse of a processor, the Vega Racer 2 will feature a quite large 4.8-inch 720p LCD, and like the Vega LTE we heard about last fall, the Racer 2 will include an LTE radio. Other modern touches include a ceramic body, providing ...

Before it was purchased by Sprint, I used to work for an American wireless carrier called Nextel. It differentiated itself from other carriers in several ways, one of them being its stable of durable hardware. Almost every handset was big, bulky, and nigh-indestructible. My favorite phones to sell were those that met the requirements of U.S. MIL-STD 810. Though the standard is somewhat more flexible than is generally admitted, devices certified 810-compliant are broadly said to be capable of withstanding exposure to dust, shock, vibration, temperature extremes, high altitude environments, ...

Over the years Pantech has come out with some innovative cellphone designs, but has failed to impress consumers. Recently though, the Pantech Burst debuted on AT&T with some cutting edge features that surprised the smartphone industry because they aren't things you'll find on a budget device. To get your hands on a snappy processor, a Super AMOLED display, and the capability to access 4G LTE for AT&T, you'd usually have to pitch for a high-end smartphone, but the Burst came to change that. Read on to find out if the Burst is able to redeem the Pantech brand and if it will be your next ...

In this video we demonstrate the hardware of the new AT&T Pantech Burst. Over the years Pantech has not impressed much in terms of hardware but the Pantech Burst has some great specification especially for the budget price tag. The Pantech Burst similar features to high-end Android and is capable of outperforming some of them. The screen of the Burst is a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display (800 x 480) behind a glass capacitive multi-touch digitizer. The dimensions of the Burst are 65.2 x 126.5 x 11.4 mm and weigh 122 grams with the battery included. The internal memory is 16GB and can ...

AT&T's Jeff Bradley, Senior Vice President of Mobile Devices, talked about the carrier's plans for smartphones earlier today, mentioning several upcoming releases we've already heard about, like the HP Veer next week and the Windows Phone 7 HTC HD7S. Bradley also re-confirmed AT&T's commitment to allowing non-Android-Market app installs, like we've seen with the Infuse 4G. One tidbit that's new to us, though, is his revelation that AT&T will have a new Pantech-made Android arriving next month. Details are very sparse at this point; Bradley remarked that the Pantech is a "cool little ...

Earlier this month we got a look at the Pantech Breakout, setting itself up for a home on Verizon LTE. Now a new leak gives us some details about its planned release, which is looking like it could happen on September 22. This notice for retailers informs them that the Breakout will launch in all channels on the twenty-second. It also gives us a spec breakdown on the phone, but there's nothing really new there; we had heard about most of the important ones before, and this information simply confirms them. That means the phone will have a 1GHz single-core processor, four-inch WVGA display, ...