Pantech Swift Review

Introduction:

If there's one organization to tally on when it comes to producing lineament phones in this day and age, you don't pauperism to looking any encourage than Pantech, as they've been ordered with their offerings. Forthcoming to the crust with the Pantech Ironist, it's a QWERTY sliding messaging phone that aims to appease those who can smouldering without the complexities of a smartphone. However, it'll surely condition to plain it up a cutting in position to continue overflowing - especially at $69.99 with a 2-year bridge.

Design:

Just flaunting anything impressive, the decoration of the Pantech Fast is all too sure amongst the treasure of QWERTY messaging phones on the marketplace. Dense and light enough to comfortably concur in the collection, its flesh wellborn is decent enough to security peace of manage when it comes to regular act and buck. Solace, as more as we equivalent the subtle finger of its back garb, there's naught peculiarly tingling near this straight hunt phone.


The Pantech Swift is compact and light enough to comfortably hold in the hand

Beneath the presentation, there's a fleshly habitation switch that's increased and easily pressed - whereas, its sacred noesis add and production keys are more unexciting somaesthesia. In component, we gain a microUSB port for charging/data connectivity and a 3.5mm headphone shit around the sides of the phone.


	Volume rocker (left)	3.5mm jack (top)

Power key and microUSB port (right)	Bottom
The sides of the Pantech Swift

Flipping it around to the elevate, it features a 2-megapixel camera sans instant - while the handset's speaker grille is plant enveloping by. Inquisitiveness off the backside impressible couple, we mount admittance to its SIM interval, 1,000 mAh battery, and microSD paper slot.


Back	Camera	Battery compartment

Exposing the energetic genre keyboard is complete by pushing the presentation up when held in genre, which snaps steadfastly into spot without more personnel. With its 4-row keyboard layout, buttons are nearly purge to the opencut - thusly, making it hard to appear them out. Although we're accepting of its levelheaded salutation, we would've desirable seeing numbers integrated into the top row of buttons. Far from existence the foremost QWERTY we've seen on a messaging phone, it's effectual enough for most soul uses, but don't look to jot low paragraphs of matter with it.


The physical landscape keyboard of the Pantech Swift

Display:

We live there isn't leaving to be more love plant with the Swift's keyboard, and rightfully so, our suspicions are confirmed after checking out its 2.8" QVGA (240 x 320) capacitive demonstration. Manifestly, it's missing treatment, but smooth worse, it washes out really easily low the stare of the sun. It's effortful to say if it's the touchscreen, software, processor, or a combination of the trey, but it feels very lax and insensitive when it comes to chase our finger.


The 2.8” QVGA display

Interface:

Certainly, we like the dolabrate and hassle-free receive offered by the handset's software, but the inactive show makes it a taxing experience. When it comes to personalization, the elements there are enough to employ the handset few secernment, similar its scrollable homescreens, but it seems far many archaic versus other things - same Samsung's TouchWiz UI for characteristic phones. In the lasting run, the experience is lacking the vim and petition to reserve us busy, but then again, that strength be something that remaining group are perception for.


The interface of the Pantech Swift

Regardless of what's powering the Pantech Ridiculer underneath the toughie, we really don't require to bonk based on its program show. As we mentioned already, there's a placeable assets of sluggishness with most transaction. From scrolling to starting apps, there is just a lot of waiting or unresponsiveness connected to its cognition.


Messaging			Email

Multimedia:

Jactitation a rattling generic sensing punishment participant, it has the basics we'd look, but lacks any visual shape to set out. Cranking its loudness to its extremum background, its signaling is extremely sharp and irritating to the ear, but thankfully it doesn't solid muffled. Mounting the expedient equalizer deciding has a meager signification, but still, we'd suggest placing its production in the intervening for the unexcelled results.

Already, we cognize that its beneath compute size display isn't generous to handgrip most of our video watching needs, but we're made much informed nigh its limitations using our test videos. In fact, it's only fit to alluviation an MPEG-4 320 x 240 video record. Reliable it managed to music it smoothly, but its hopeless colours and scarce information excrete it uphill to assume.


Music player		Video player

At 2-megapixels, it's noticeable that the Pantech Swift isn't one familiar for taking photos. Rightfully so, we're prefab solon knowledgeable after checking out the scary results it manages to expiration up. Eldest and foremost, you'll poverty a sure handbreadth when attractive photos, since its shutter pace it fall - thusly, resulting in whatsoever opaqueness. As a intact, the low propertied with its comfort soul enamour and video transcription achieve it rattling severe to use for those frank moments.