Pantech Pocket – An Interesting Choice for AT&T
Pantech Pocket has an interesting design and considerable benefits such as squarish 4.3 inch display, enhanced messaging, videos and Web browsing, stellar battery life, reliable camera and 4G HSPA+ speeds. With everything you do on your handset, it helps to have a display, which can accommodate it all. The SVGA touchscreen display gets improved rendering and abundant room for viewing all the applications. The Pocket is a perfect handset for family like Taylors, who use it for everything from web browsing and messaging to downloading games and mobile business applications. Its enhanced web browsing features make it easier for everyone to find what you are searching online. It is quite difficult for you to manage busy life while on the go, which is why Pantech has designed the Pocket to help you work more productively and efficiently.
With access to plenty of mobile productivity applications, larger display, powerful messaging features and next level web browsing capabilities, the Pantech Pocket is a small powerful and unique combination of portability and power. It can be challenge to find a handset, which does both well, work and play. Its powerful suite of productivity tools make it a monster in board room, while the social media and messaging features make it easy to have a life outside the office. View multiple browser windows in completely rendered HTML, browse Flash based sites and download attachments with ease. Say goodbye to expensive mounted in-car Global Positioning System units. With the help of AT&T Navigator application from Android Market, you will never have to worry about getting lost.
The Pantech Pocket offers a solid 4G Android Gingerbread experience at an affordable price, while the extra wide frame, lack of camera flash and poor video quality could dissuade some folks. AT&T and Pantech have a history of designing quite a few reliable handsets such as Pantech Laser and Pantech Crossover. The Pocket provides user friendly Android Gingerbread skin, excellent quality five-megapixel camera and HSPA+ 4G speeds, all for an affordable price of $50. The black smartphone with slightly rubberized and textured finish coating its back and rim, the Pocket’s squat, short rounded build immediately stands out. It measures 4.52 inch high, 0.44 inch thick, 3 inch wide and weighs 4.4 ounces.
One of the extensive features found on Pantech Pocket is its 4 inch touchscreen display, which translates SVGA or Super VGA resolution of 600 x 800 pixels with 16 million color support. The display is quite colorful and bright for its size with smooth graphics. Powering the Pocket is an Android Gingerbread 2.3 operating system, which is quite user friendly and intuitive. The lock screen displays a circle surrounded by spokes of icons, each representing application you can open right from lock screen and leads to browser, call log, music player, email, messaging application or home screen.
The custom interface of Pantech Pocket offers 7 customizable home screens; pull down navigation menu with fast access to system settings such as profiles, alarm, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. You will also find stylized onscreen navigation buttons for app tray, dial pad, browser and texting menu. Underneath the screen, there are four physical buttons for search, menu, back and home functions. The microUSB charging port is located on the right hand side of the device, while volume rocker button on the left. The power button and 3.5mm headphone are situated on top of the smartphone, while 5.0-megapixel camera at the back. The microSD memory card slot is beneath the battery cover with 2GB SD card installed to store multimedia and apps.
As an Android Gingerbread smartphone, the Pantech Pocket comes with built in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS. It also gets built in support for plenty of contacts and standards like photo ID, personalized ringtones and calling groups. Multimedia and text messages are also onboard with support for multiple types of email inboxes including corporate work addresses. Some of the essential applications on Pocket include calendar, basic music player, clock, browser and calculator. It also adds compass, measurement converter, document viewer, RSS reader, memo pad and weather application.
Google loads up all its Android smartphones including Pantech Pocket for Google services like maps, YouTube, turn by turn navigation and Places. Also onboard are voice memo, Facebook, stocks app, Twitter, PC connector, Amazon Kindle, sketch pad and City ID. AT&T also adds its own applications, which include Navigator, myAT&T, Family Map, AT&T Code Scanner, U-verse Live TV, AT&T Address Book and Ypmobile. Its five megapixel camera takes clear, crisp outdoor images with excellent color representation. It shoots video in five different resolutions starting from 176 x 144 up to 1280 x 720 high definition video.
Standard features on Pantech Pocket include 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900; 3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100; 4.0 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16 million color support and 600 x 800 pixels; microSD, up to 32GB, 2 GB included; Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi hotspot; 5.0-megapixel camera with 2560?1920 pixels, autofocus and LED flash; Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread); GPS with A-GPS support; SNS integration; MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player; MP4/H.264/H.263 player; Organizer; Voice memo; Predictive text input; Phonebook: Caller groups, Unlimited entries, Search by both first and last name, Multiple numbers per contact, Ring ID and Picture ID; Organizer: Alarm, Calendar, Calculator, Document viewer and Converter.
The Pantech Pocket is also equipped with Messaging: SMS, MMS, Predictive text input; E-mail: IMAP, POP3, SMTP, Microsoft Exchange, Push e-mail; Notifications: Polyphonic ringtones, Music ringtones (MP3), Flight mode, Vibration and Silent mode. The rated battery life of Pocket is 18 days in standby mode and 6 hours in talktime mode. Those who are in the market seeking a less expensive Android phone with some special features thrown in, Pantech Pocket is ideal.
