AT&T’s Pantech Matrix gets viewed and spec’d
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Filed in AT&T, EDGE, Exclusives, GPRS, GSM, HSDPA, Handsets, Pantech, UMTS
Hated the Pantech Duo but loved the form-factor? Well, AT&Tizzle is looking to grab you as a potential customer with the Pantech Matrix. It uses the same dual-slide mechanism as the Duo, but sadly runs Pantech’s run-of-the-mill OS. There are at least some decent features here. Things like dual-band UMTS/HSDPA, a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, Video Share, a QWERTY keyboard and numeric keypad. You even get to choose your own color; red, blue, or black. That seals the deal for us. We’ll be first in line. If you’re ferocious enough, hit the jump for the full product sheet!
you’re going to line up for a phone with a shitty OS?
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is someone not familiar with the concept of sarcasm?
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Just buy a Storm and fageddaboutit….
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@Jimmy - suck ass
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Its going to be a good phone for a 12yr old
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bold bold bold bold, where is the bold??
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i’m glad at&t will be releasing a good form factor without a PDA OS. It’s a hard sell for us sales folks to convince EVERY SINGLE PERSON they need a $30.00 pda feature! Now AT&T(they are my employer so no ‘izzle’) has a phone to compete with the Voyager/ENV/Rumor/Scoop/Sidekick without needing an extra package. Us tech people like our smart phones but average Joe and his daughter wants a ‘textin phone’.
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Amen jeremy
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lets hope the lg xenon sees the light of day too. as well as the new sony slider.
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3 hours talk time?
Am I reading this right?
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I agree w/you Jeremy. I hate selling blackberries to 10 year olds. The duo is stupid expensive also. There really aren’t any decent options for texting phones like you said. I can’t wait to get this thing (to sell it). Hopefully it’s cheap.
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What another peice of garbage handset from our freinds @ pantech
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Looks insteresting enough.. However, i’m not really familiar with Pantechs OS. LOVE the blue though!
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To all the haters out there >>>>>> blahhhhh. This is a great thing for at&t. Its great to see that they are joining the text with no pda party. Pantech ( as a at&t sales person ) has been a rock solid phone builder. The c3 line and the breeze both have had less issues than any Lg, Samsung or Nokia.
I too am WAITING for the Bold!!!! But the parents out there are not wanting to do pda or blackberry packs for their kids in this troubling economic time.
GO PANTECH!
I am excired to see it launch
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The Pantech Duo form factor was great but the phone was TERRIBLE.
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Wow I agree with you, only 3 (Three) hours talk time? IF this IS aiming for the younger text / talk happy teens, that would be aggrivating.
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chris Said:
I agree w/you Jeremy. I hate selling blackberries to 10 year olds. The duo is stupid expensive also. There really aren’t any decent options for texting phones like you said. I can’t wait to get this thing (to sell it). Hopefully it’s cheap.
LOL!
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i agree with jeremy. Everyone txt on their phone then use it for voice calls. Hopefully at&t will sell the phone at a lower price point. And many teenagers and kids should get this phone
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Anyone have any ideas on pricing… maybe one of our friends in at&t land??
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The matrix is coming with a $50 MIR which generally puts the phone cost between $100-$250 before rebate.
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Is the lg xenon a phone for att? and does anyone know the pricing and when it will come out?
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I just called AT&T.. It is in fact coming out , but not today. She says that its not in inventory yet but they do have it. She will call me as soon its released. It may be today, it may be the end of the month.
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Actuallllllyyyy, this ISN’T a bad phone…A much better move from the duo. I work for at&t and my co-worker and I took this out of the box, the first day to play with it and WOW. Once you slide it out, it literally takes a millisecond to change from potrait to landscape. A much improvement from the lag that windows mobile gave it before. They should have never put a WM OS on a pantech crap processor. It really gave pantech phones a bad rap. That is all =]
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Its out now.
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just bought one today. Pretty thick phone i think a bit thicker then the duo but it is fast fast, the camera sucks though but it feels a lot more solid then the duo i returned. Only colors they had were white/blue and black/green. great phone for 80 bucks
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