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Samsung is working on the Galaxy S5, HTC on the successor to its One smartphone, LG – on G3, while Pantech wants to compete with its upcoming Vega Iron 2. This, still rumored device will apparently be a beast-phone, packing the top-notch hardware to make it a viable alternative to competing vendors’ high-end offering. According to ZDNet Korea, the Iron 2 will launch in April, sporting a metal body, fingerprint scanner and a 2K screen (1600 x 2560 pixels). Alas, we may not see it hitting the Western hemisphere at all. Although Pantech managed to bring some of its devices to the U.S. market, most of those were low- and mid-range phones. During last year, the Korean firm unveiled several interesting smartphones and phablets, none of which were sold outside of Korean peninsula. Perhaps things will change with the Vega Iron 2, perhaps not. In any case, we’re looking forward to play with this device during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Stay tuned… [Via: PhoneArena] Dusan has been usi...

Pantech and AT&T have recently officially introduced their latest QWERTY phone for the US customers, the Pantech Renue. This messaging phone is already available for price tag $69.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a 2-year contract. New Pantech Renue rugged phone comes with a sliding QWERTY keyboard and also meeting 810G military standard that resistance to sand, dust, humidity, temperature, vibration, and radiation. According to source, the handset is also green device that its 67 percent case is made out of recyclable materials, and its 95 percent packaging is recycled paper and non-POV soy ink. As specs-wise, the AT&T Pantech Renue has feature a 3.2-inch QVGA touchscreen display, and a 3MP rear camera. Other feature is Bluetooth, HSDPA, full Web browser, and a microSD card slot (up to 32GB). View the original article here

The Pantech Star Q 4G LTE smartphone has appeared online and Verizon is preparing to launch it. Reportedly, the new Pantech LTE Android smartphone would come in cost around $100 on contract at Verizon. The exact release date of the Pantech Star Q is not revealed yet. As seen its name, the ‘Q’ is mean the smartphone has a five-row physical QWERTY keyboard. New Star Q handset has featured a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor and a 4-inch WVGA (854 x 480) display. The Pantech Star Q LTE smartphone packs a 3MP rear-facing camera, and a lower-resolution front camera. There is Bluetooth 4.0, which is allowing it to wireless connections for music and short-range file transfer. The Star Q low-end slider QWERTY phone will run Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. View the original article here