Pantech Duo C810 pops for AT&T retail
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 29th 2007 6:21AM
posted October 29th 2007 6:21AM
We're still waiting for it to grace AT&T's pages, but it looks like the WinMo 6 Standard Pantech Duo C810 is now available in most AT&T retail stores for $249 with two-year contract. Phonescoop has the full spec rundown and video hands-on of AT&T's new quad-band GSM / HSDPA dual-sliding QWERTY. Besides that rough, chubby look the phone also sports more than a few operational oddities including a mysterious "turbo mode" and the fact that sliding the phone open and shut does not answer or hang-up your calls. Fat? Sure, but still trimmer than the Helio Ocean also manufactured by Pantech. Check the video review after the break.[Via Pocketnow]
Fat, Fugly AND Windows shitty Mobile 6 - what a winning combination!
The only other Pantech phone that AT&T offers is dogshit. This shouldn't be any different.
hmmm... looks awesome but a little unwieldy, and that is a turn off for me... no feedback keys? hmm...
I don't mind the design... but that's where it ends. I owned a Hellio Ocean for 5 days before the memory card port died, one of the buttons stopped working, and the slide for the keyboard started sagging on one side.
And what's up with a new dual slide win-mo 6 feature phone that has a 1.3mp camera?!
Pantech makes crap and AT&T is not the best carrier around...
....moving on.
I'm with Prokanda...In less than 30 days I went through 2 Helio Oceans. The first one had a bum MP3 player that wouldn't recognize or play any of the files I loaded onto it...the second one had a problem with the memory card port. Thank God it all happened within the money back guarantee window so I wasn't screwed into having a bulky useless log of Pantech crap for two years.
Now I am back with AT&T and the craphole Blackberry Pearl...but at least it works.
Turbo Mode? I didn't know Windows Mobile 6 ran on a 386.
At&T lists under the services for the duo: Telenav Maps and Navigator(TM) support.
What does that mean? You can use it with a separate GPS antenna? It doesn't mean there's built in GPS, right?
I got this yesterday. After 24 hours of use, these are my initial thoughts.
I installed all my regular windows mobile software and did use it quite a bit.
1st off, it's not very comfortable to hold. It's a little thick but the real trouble is this thing needs a some rubber grips. I feel like it can fall out my hand. Especially since it gets a little hot after some usage.
Call quality could be better. Everything sounds fuzzy. Maybe this is a defective phone. It starts to vibrate now and then for no reason and it last for at least 30 seconds.
The keys are a little tight but it's not that bad if you are used to hunting and pecking. So far I keep thinking keys will be somewhere else. The keys are bright when they are lit, but the 4 way directional navi is not backlit. This seems to be one of the more important buttons. There's also a lock button at the bottom but by pressing it once, you get a menu with power off at as the top choice. Press and hold to lock, or press once for the menu.
Windows Mobile 6 is the main reason I upgraded. Some of the new features should have been there all along and I thought HTML emails would be a big plus but the scrolling makes it awkward and I think I may need to turn it off.
It comes with the 3 major IM clients but after all these years, I can never figure out how to keep these things connected. By the end of the day, they're always offline.
I'm not sure if I'm keeping this thing. I don't really need a keyboard if it adds this much bulk and makes the phone so uncomfortable to hold. Also, for a slider, you cannot answer or hang up by sliding the phone open and closed. I really want a dual hinge flip like the Samsung. It would give the same functionality but it a smaller form factor.