This morning, Verizon announced a new 4G LTE phone to their growing family, the Pantech Perception. As one would expect from anything released by Pantech, this phone should be considered mid-range when compared to today’s smartphone standards. It sports a 4.8″ HD (720p) Super AMOLED display, 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, and 16GB of storage. 

Pantech is trying to be somewhat innovative on the software front though, by tossing in Motion Sense, which allows you to gesture or wave over your device to answer calls, scroll through contacts, change songs being played, or flip between pictures in the gallery. Galaxy S4, anyone? Seriously, these were all features mentioned at some point after Samsung announced their new flagship phone that has yet to be released.

The Perception runs Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), but will “soon” be upgraded to Jelly Bean.

The Perception can be had for $99.99 on 2-year contract with a $50 mail-in rebate. It will arrive in stores beginning April 25.

Via:  Verizon

Verizon Announces the Pantech Perception at $99, With a Handful of Features From the Galaxy S4 is a post from: Droid Life

Verizon’s next highly anticipated super phone just stopped by the FCC for some closeups. I’m hoping you might have caught a whiff of sarcasm from me and that the Pantech Perception will be more of a mid-range device for those looking to pick up a more “budget-friendly” phone. These are the first actual photos we have seen of the device, if you don’t count the press render we saw back in early January. 

The Perception will reportedly sport a 720p display, 4G LTE connectivity, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, and an 8MP back-facing shooter. These specs don’t sound too bad at all, but given Pantech’s history of less than desirable hardware, I can’t imagine seeing a line outside Verizon for this one.

Via: Unwired View | FCC

Pantech Perception Headed to Verizon, Detained by FCC and Mugshotted is a post from: Droid Life

Pantech is looking to make a bigger dent in the US market this year with the recently announced Discover headed for AT&T and the Perception that we believe is headed for Verizon. Start off with a HD 720p screen that’s powered by a Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5 GHz and this device is looking fairly decent already.

Unfortunately there isn’t much more information other than that. The Discover is set to launch on AT&T for only $50 however, so if that price is close to the same when it lands on Verizon this could be a very powerful mid-range device.

Via: Unwired View

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