Pantech’s High-End Android – the Vega IM-A650S – Leads Pack of 16 Phones
We haven’t heard from Pantech in a while, and that’s probably because they’ve been cooking up their latest Android handset. The Vega IM-A650S is sporting a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB of ROM (no word on RAM), 8GB of “external” storage (microSD card?) and more.
It’ll be running Android 2.1 with Pantech’s custom interface running on top of it (it looks similar to TouchWiz 3.0, from where I’m standing). It’ll also be featured in four colors: white, black, pink, and gold-brown (we’re thinking bronze, here). Sky will be offering the phone over in South Korea, but judging from the press shots, SK Telecom might also be carrying this device (though we can’t confirm any date or pricing just yet). This is one of many revelations we’ll be seeing as Pantech’s gearing up to launch 16 new phones (most of them running Android, in some form) over the next year.
On a side note, why can’t US device marketing firms see that we’d love to see beautiful Korean women holding our favorite gadgetry? There’s just something about that smile that whispers “buy”.
[Akihabara via Oled-Display]