Pantech Duo for AT&T Available Now

The Pantech Duo is now available online and in your local AT&T stores. The Pantech Duo is a Windows Mobile 6 double slider phone. It features a 12-key numeric keypad and a QWERTY keyboard inside one impressively compact design. List price is $299 and you get $50 rebate that makes it $249 with two-year contract.
3G broadband speed is the big plus when you try to download music and video over AT&T’s network. However, tt still looks fat when you compare with Blackberry Curve. Hey, if you want to sliding keyboard, that’s the way it is. If it gets too thin, it will make the sliding keyboard even thinner and difficult to type.

Samsung Blackjack 2 Available Soon at AT&T

Samsung Blackjack 2 is coming to your local AT&T stores soon. Just in time for the holiday shopping season. The original Blackjack was introduced less than a year a ago to take on the Motorola Q. Now the new moto Q9h is facing the new challenge from Blackjack II. Need to pick a winner? The Blackjack2 now has a larger and brighter screen. Most importantly, it has the latest Windows Mobile 6. This time, it comes with 2 colors - black and wine red. Tri-band HSDPA/quad-band world phone — work from virtually anywhere at 3G speeds. Mobile Word, Excel, PowerPoint are preinstalled. Forget about your laptop, you can do so much on your this new smartphone. The price is not yet released. But expect it to be around the same as current Blackjack.

Verizon XV6800 HTC Titan Available on November 16th

4 months after sprint release the Mogul, Verizon is finally getting it. Official release date is rumored to be November 16th. HTC Verizon fans have been waiting impatiently for the new XV6800 ever since Sprint’s official launch of Mogul in July. The xv6800 basically has the same feature as Mogul, with cusomized applications/software for Verizon’s vcast service. 256 mb of RAM is standard, wi-fi is a big plus. So, get ready for it.

Blackberry Pearl 2 for Sprint PCS

Sprint rarely falls behind Verizon Wireless when it comes to cool new phones announcement. Blackberry’s lastest and greatest CDMA Pearl, the 8130, also called Pearl 2 is coming to Sprint PCs in November, just in time for the holiday. One noticalbe feature both Sprint and Verizon offer is the integrated GPS, which provide real-time routing and traffic alerts. Other features include  3.5mm headphone jack, stereo Bluetooth support, 2 megapixel camera, and externally accessible microSDHC slot. Folks, if you’ve been waiting for a super fast Pearl, your wait is almost over. The only choice you  have to make is Verizon or Sprint. Let’s see whose shelf the Pearl 2 will show up on first.

Blackberry Pearl2 Coming to Verizon Wireless

Verizon beats Sprint to annouce the first EVDO Pearl. It comes with a microSD slot for up to 8GB of expansion. The onboard camera looks like a better deal - 2 mega pix camera vs. 1.3 mega pix for all other Pearls on AT&T and T-Mobile, let alone they are still running on a snail like EDGE network. Oh, did I mention VCAST is also available on the Pearl, so you can watch your favorite TV show on a tiny screen.

Samsung Beat for T-Mobile Price

Samsung Beat for T-Mobile is now available online for $99 after instant and mail-in rebates. It’s a midrange music flip phone bundled with a 1GB microSD card, two preloaded songs, and 1.3 Megapixel camera. The Beat costs $50 more than the Nokia 5300 and that’s only because of the Nokia 5300 gets $100 instant rebate. Both are nice phone, if you prefer a slider, go with Nokia 5300, otherwise the Samsung Beat will be a very good choice if you don’t want to put an iPod and a phone in your pocket. You can’t beat that, right?