Pantech today announced a new touchscreen mobile phone, Pantech Presto, in South Korea. The Presto is a one-touch music phone, featuring intuitive and easy access to most-used features and users’ favorite music tracks. This mobile phone allows the users to quickly replay the music by setting gesture and free control of play, stop, next music piece, previous music piece and volume is available even in held state.

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AT&T together with Pantech officially announced the Pantech Slate mobile phone that comes equipped with a full QWERTY keypad. Pantech is proud to claim that the Pantech Slate is the world’s thinnest QWERTY phone with thickness less than 1cm.

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As cellular phone is getting more complicated, Pantech tries to make its phone as easy to use as possible, launching “Simple Phone” (Pantech-au W62P) in Japan. This 3G phone has a list of special designed easy to use features, including Read “Pantech Launch “Simple Phone” Pantech-au W62P in Japan”

As 3G communication services in Mexico were launched in beginning of this year (2008), Pantech, announced its plan to sells cell phones in the growing Mexican 3G phone market. The first phone that Pantech is going to export to this South America country is Pantech C600 flip-style phone. The C600 features a build-in MP3 digital music player, dual camera, movie player, other multimedia features that are “designed to fit Mexican consumers”.

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Pantech / Sky in Korea is planned to unearth a new HSDPA cellular phone, ‘Neon Sign’, which allows users to create and personalize “My Icons” using 49 LED dots of 7 x 7 at the front. The nickname, “Noen Sign”, means the owners of this phone can personalize My Icons different from other persons. Users can customize “My Icons” up to 15 events such as a call incoming, making a video telephony call, closing the folder, receiving a message, alarm, and etc.

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April 18, 2008- SKY and KTF are introducing a new handset design that has been designed with the classy business professional in mind. This dignified new design is finished with a glossy material that adds elegance to function for this new mobile device. The IM-S330 (SKY)/IM-S330K(KTF), or the Duke, as it is known to its friends, features an ergonomic design and a wide LCD screen to make this mobile device truly the most convenient to use. With M-Commerce, Bluetooth, and Subway Map applications and compatibility, this handset would make a great asset to anyone who is busy with business and do not have time to fall behind the game. This new HSDPA handset is a simple design, yet has also manage to look quite luxurious as well.

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March 27, 2008 - Pantech recently sent out a contest to Korean Universities in which students were invited to come up with new and creative designs for mobile phones. Pantech even offered that winning designs could be manufactured and ready for distribution as early as 2010. After many submissions, Pantech chose five winners that stood apart from all the other amazing designs submitted. We have a few shots of the winning phones for the world to see. Haven’t these students really out done themselves? We have here pictures of the winning designs. Most all of them feature minimalist designs that stays true to the latest trends in mobile phone and cellular device design.

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