Pantech Ease now official on AT&T

AT&T's latest from longtime partner Pantech has now gone from rumor to reality, bringing another full-touch dumbphone into the fold -- but there's an interesting twist on this one. The so-called Ease is clearly geared toward the older set, packing unique features like a pill reminder and built-in pedometer alongside more common goodies like text-to-speech and voice command. It's got a 2 megapixel camera, slide-out landscape keyboard, 3G, and a 3.2-inch WQVGA display paired with a $69.99 launch price (on contract after rebate, of course) that should make it fairly appealing to the penny-pinching types Pantech's clearly trying to appeal to with this one. It's available today.

[Thanks, Sedat T.]

[neoaddict Posted Jun 20th 2010 10:50PM]

The nice thing about this phone is that you don't have to use it in ease mode. You can switch to "advanced mode" which is the not-dumbed-down mode. Then it's actually a decent slider touch phone that most people could get used to using.

[Frogboy Posted Jun 20th 2010 11:04PM]

Pantech has been coming out with some pretty good feature phones. Spent some time with the Link and the keyboard was amazingly good. Glad to see them turning things around there. AT&T needs a good landscape slider that doesn't require a data plan.

[neoaddict Posted Jun 21st 2010 7:38AM]

@Frogboy Too bad this one needs the data/text plan.

[zephxiii Posted Jun 21st 2010 2:09PM]

@neoaddict I'm not sure why you would need a QWERTY feature phone if you aren't texting on it....

[Frogboy Posted Jun 22nd 2010 11:45PM]

@neoaddict

Most family plans have unlimited family texting already so not really. That counts for what you are talking about.

[minceyfresh Posted Jun 21st 2010 12:53AM]

I'd like to see Pantech come out with an Android-powered Matrix dual-slider...

[croquembouche11 Posted Jun 21st 2010 1:02AM]

Wow! This would've been the best Father's Day gift, had I known a day before. I guess the Home Depot gift card will have to suffice this year.

[GeneralThade Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:01PM]

Should have called it the Pantech Geri.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 17th 2010 5:53PM]

I live in Canada and am with Telus Mobility. I want to know if I can bring a Pantech Pursuit from AT&T up to Canada and have it work on the network here. I am afraid to spend the money and not be able to use the phone. I have a Blackberry Pearl Flip which apparently is to much phone for me as I hate it (with a capital H). I want an easy to use user friendly phone for calls, texting and receiving my emails. Period. I want to be able to get around in my phone easily.