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Pantech Matrix C740 Profile: Unique Dual Slider

Pantech Matrix is affordable cell phone version of Pantech Duo smartphone

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Pantech Matrix C740

Pantech Matrix C740

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While the Pantech Duo has taken the smartphone route, the quick-messaging Pantech Matrix C740 is a cell phone that packs the same dual-sliding, double-keypad design.

AT&T complemented the release of the Matrix at the end of 2008 with three other text-friendly cell phones: the AT&T Quickfire, Pantech Slate C530 and Samsung A767 Propel.

Along with its dual-sliding uniqueness, the perk of being a 3G world phone with high-speed data access and an impressive battery, the Matrix’s top sell is as a quick-messaging phone especially for text messaging-heavy users.
Price

While the Matrix starts out at the not-so-affordable price of $229.99 from AT&T on no-commitment pricing, adding a two-year service contract knocks the price down to $79.99.

You can limbo even lower with a $50 mail-in AT&T rebate card down to $29.99.

Feature List

  • 3G world phone with high-speed data access
  • Predictive text for fast typing
  • Backlit keys
  • 1.3-megapixel camera
  • Live video capture and playback
  • Music player with customizable equalizer
  • XM Satellite Radio for streaming radio
  • MusicID to identify the songs you’re listening to
  • Text messaging and instant messaging
  • Mobile email
  • Web browser
  • Video share to share live streaming video
  • Ringtones, games, graphics and wallpapers
  • Answer tones to have your friends hear your favorite song when they call you
  • Calendar, alarm clock and address book
  • USB connectivity to transfer data through a USB cable
  • Hands-free speakerphone
  • Voice dialing and voice commands
  • Bluetooth for short-range wireless (i.e. a wireless headset)
  • Up to 32 gigabytes of expandable memory storage in microSD format
  • 65,000-color display with 1280x960 pixel resolution

  • Battery

    The Pantech Matrix packs a healthy battery that’s rated at up to 5 hours of talk time and up to 16 days of standby time.
    Pantech Matrix

    Pantech Matrix

    Image © Pantech
    Size, Weight

    The Matrix measures in at 4.02 inches by 1.97 of an inch by 0.78 of an inch. The handset weighs a heavy 4.66 ounces.

    Cell Phone Service Carrier

    The Pantech Maxtrix C740 is sold by AT&T.

    Differentiation in the Marketplace

    This handset’s prime differentiation is its dual-sliding, double-keypad design along with a longer-lasting battery and ability to be a 3G phone for a price that doesn’t break the bank.

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    User Reviews

     2 out of 5
    Wont stand up to a 16 yo, Member sagac1

    Over all a nice phone. Unfortunately, not sturdy enough for a teen. We had the phone for 10 months before it jammed with both keyboards halfway exposed by a figidety teen flipping it back and forth. At over 10k text a month (current record 14,890 in a month) the keypad was comeing up, and buttons stopped working. After being dropped several times, started acting up, reseting for no reason. Had to get a new one.

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