Pantech C120 heads to Cingular prepaid

In case you haven't heard, Cingular has an official corporate policy of not talking to us (no, seriously) so forgive us in taking a few days to gather all the requisite details of Pantech's new C120 for Cingular's GoPhone prepaid service. The diminutive candybar serves as Pantech's followup to the crazy-small C300 clamshell; like the C300, it's initially available exclusively through GoPhone, but we wouldn't be surprised to see it head over to postpaid before terribly long. Considering the handset moves for $140 contract-free, the C120 holds its own with a 128 x 128 color display, speakerphone, and VGA cam, but with a mere 2.5MB of memory on board, don't expect to fill 'er up with your favorite tunes.

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[(Unverified) Posted Oct 2nd 2006 1:23PM]

Wow!

I should start telling you guys when we get the dummy phones in, we got this one in 3 weeks ago at the Cingular Store...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 2nd 2006 1:35PM]

Hey Baldwin, maybe you can enlighten us with the lowdown on the 8525. I'm sure most of us would like to know.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 2nd 2006 2:47PM]

i sure would like to know, i would also love to know whycingular is such a pain in the *** when you want to buy a new phone.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 2nd 2006 9:38PM]

This popped up for a short period of time on Cingular's website a few weeks ago too -- about the same time the star trek went on sale. I remembered seeing it breifly but not thinking much of it, and then I checked back the same day and it was gone. Looks pretty cool though for a goPhone.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 2nd 2006 11:27PM]

I couldn't find a review for the C120 anywhere, so I'll give you the DL. My Razr died, so I got the C120 as a Cingular GO phone and replaced the sim with my regular sim. This phone is very light, small, solid and slick (it almost feels too small at times). I've had it for 3 days now and it's great. Signal strenght is better than Razr and calls are clear. Call volume is adequate, but I would have liked the max vol to be higher and speaker phone is only loud if you turn the phone over. Screen is bright but small and Pantech really makes menu icons and digits/letters LARGE...um great for the semi-blind. Animations are smooth as hell but the C120 has a crappy game and ringtone bundle. Camera was suprisingly good, no bluetooth or mp3 player, but who cares when you just want a phone to be a phone. I am tempted to keep this phone, but I'll have to use it for a few more days to gain perspective since I am used to my Razr that was LARGE compared to this phone, when open. I find that I don't even know when I have it in my pocket (seriously). Even though I haven't needed it yet, I would like someone to let me know if there is a key-lock function. For $90 it was definitely worth it.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2006 12:19AM]

Martin, the Cingular 8525 is scheduled to release on October 24th. I will have one as soon as the UPS guy drops them off at my store.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2006 11:52AM]

^Even though I haven't needed it yet, I would like someone to let me know if there is a key-lock function.

Operation and key reference is vague at times and
I see no Unlock soft key unless thats what the Menu
soft key becomes after key-lock. No password or
unlock number as with some phones.

LOCK: Page 23 on manual, press Menu soft key then
asterisk for 3 seconds.
(Top left key,Bottom left key... shown in hard to
see key graphic)

UNLOCK: This is unclear to me, so I would not lock:
press Unlock soft key( can't really say what
that is) then asterisk within 5 seconds.