The good: The Pantech Duo has a unique dual-slider design with a slide-out number dialpad plus a QWERTY keyboard. It comes with the Windows Mobile 6 OS as well as a 1.3-megapixel camera, quad-band support, HSDPA, plus access to AT&T’s broadband services.
The bad: The Pantech Duo has a cheap plastic body with a flimsy sliding mechanism. The QWERTY keyboard felt flush to the surface and was tricky to use
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Staff cheered as throngs of excited customers made their way into Apple’s flagship store in London.
A small number of Apple fans keen to get hold of the handset had started queuing at stores overnight and numbers swelled to around 300 for the launch.
First out of the store with the £269 internet enabled device was 20-year-old north London student Tom Jasinski who said “It was worth the wait”.
Research in Motion has decided to stop LG from continue use of their fruity names (black, berry) in its phones. RIM wants LG to ceases naming its phone with fruits or the their phones would be castrated from the market…. This fight is turning interesting, I really don’t see any advantage of RIM over LG’s uses of those names unles LG sells them together… Give me the LG Black and Berry…
(Via mobilemag)
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The hardware is catching up, too. Some of the latest Windows Mobile handsets have double the RAM of prior models, rendering one of the operating system’s major flaws—poor memory management—a moot point. More devices feature 400 MHz processors, which we consider the minimum for a truly smooth Windows Mobile experience. Sure, Windows Mobile still isn’t as quick and easy as Palm …
G Electronics announced the launch of its 2.8-inch full touch screen smart phone ‘LG-KS20′ in seven European countries including France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Starting this, the company hopes to expand to CIS region, some Asian countries like Hong Kong and Taiwan, and to South Africa as well by the end of this year.
Featuring 2.8-inch touch screen and 12.8mm-thick simple design, the LG-K820 offers push email, MS office and full browsing internet at the speed of …
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