Pantech has been around with its numerous easy to purchase devices. We haven’t heard a lot about a pantech phone though! So hoping that Pantech Pocket changes the trend and gives GG more opportunity to look forward and publish more of pantech phone reviews, let us start diagnosing the new offering from pantech mobile phone department.
Pantech Pocket has lots of specialties which come as a nice surprise for all the smart phone buyers. The best out of the many eye catching features that the phone has is its price. Priced at the cheapest $50 amongst all the smart phones available in the market, Pantech Pocket offers you with everything that you might have desired from a smart phone.
Probably it can be ranked as one of the smallest smart phones with its length being just about 4.4 inches but don’t get carried away because it offers a decent screen size of 4” because of the slight square like make.
Pros of owning a Pantech Pocket:
- Don’t demean its capacity to connect you with the outer world just because it costs less. The pantech phone supports an HSPA+ and 4G, giving you high speed internet connectivity anytime you desire.
- The 5 MP camera (common among all the smart phones nowadays) works pretty fine while taking pictures. It can also take pictures in HD resolution (720 pixels)
- It glorifies the Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) OS. Gingerbread is a complete android version in its own specific way.
- The screen resolution cannot be compared to a HD device but 600 by 800 pixel ratio is not a bad offering.
- One thing which I personally recommend every user going for this pantech phone is the custom UI setting. It is brilliantly designed and makes the phone easier to use with the keyboard representation.
- The internal memory is not flaunt-able during the era when phones are coming with huge amount of it. Pantech pocket has 600 Mb of internal storage, which seems to be less but don’t you forget the price at which you are purchasing the device. The expandable memory is up to 32 GB which is common for all the smart phones.
- The processor speed is competitive, 1GHz, single core.
- The battery life is decent and probably will seem to be better than others if you aren’t using 4G data connection.
Cons of owning a Pantech Pocket
- Absence of front camera takes you away from making any video calls. Hope they added a $20 more to provide us with this functionality, we wouldn’t have been hurt!
- The call quality is really poor. This should be improved otherwise the pantech phone would be knocked out from the market because of not having the minimum requirement of a phone!
Other than these, I found Pantech pocket to be a decent smart phone with little but major flaws.
An overview of Pantech Pocket’s Specs
| OS | Android 2.3 |
| Network | 2G, 3G, 4G |
| Connectivity | GPRS, EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth |
| Display | Multi Touch Screen with 600 by 800 pixel aspect ratio |
| Interface | USB 2.0 Micro USB |
| Internal Memory | 600 MB |
| Expandable Memory | 32 GB (comes with a 2GB card) |
| Camera | Primary: 5MP (can record videos at HD) Secondary: NO |
GG’s Gadget Rating: *** stars (because of its cheap price)
