The PT-S130: Pantech looks to steal a "world's first"

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 22nd 2006 at 2:09PM

Yes, we know this looks like your garden variety Korea-only swiveling flip phone with DMB, but Pantech is making a very interesting claim about its PT-S130: it's allegedly the first DMB phone with Bluetooth. Of course, Samsung's been trying hard to collect every "world's first" title under the sun, but if this thing beats Sammy's Bluetooth / S-DMB SCH-B450 to market, Pantech's claim might just be legit. Other features include a 2.4-inch QVGA display, stereo speakers, and 2 megapixel autofocus camera -- pretty standard fare in Korea, but as usual, that doesn't stop us yanks from drooling.

Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Pantech

Tags: bluetooth, clamshell, curitel, dmb, flip, korea, pantech, pt-s130, swivel

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-_- @ Jul 22nd 2006 2:40PM

holy crap! somebody alert the news media!
oh, wait, apparently somebody already did. ah, well.
i guess it's nice to see someone other than samsung take a world's first, but the guys at sammy-sung are probably pissed, considering that this phone just took another "first" title right after lg's cu500 beat the zx-20 to the us hsdpa market.

oh, and we'll be drooling about other countries' tech until we finally catch up with them, so that's nothing new. it's the whole "you don't know your pinto sucks until you've met someone with a ferrarri" thing.

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lucidix @ Jul 22nd 2006 7:31PM

some korean company already made one like that lol

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JX @ Jul 23rd 2006 12:50AM

This is the kind of phone that would pull more customers toward Helio- if they can get a DMB network going in the US.

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GlooM @ Jul 23rd 2006 6:51AM

Mobile Phone maker is at it again and announced what they call the world’s first Bluetooth enabled digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) mobile phone (PT-S130).

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South @ Jul 23rd 2006 8:15AM

Interestingly, when we will be able to see this model at the market.

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Mobile Reviewer @ Jul 23rd 2006 10:34PM

and this "korean company" is Samsung:)

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