Pantech Breakout is Verizon's budget 4G/LTE phone, $100

Summary: Fast and cheap, with nice glasses same a 4-inch touchscreen, DLNA hold and crapper restraint up to 10 devices, what's not to same most Verizon's 4G/LTE Pantech Breakout?

Verizon is adding a budget 4G/LTE smartphone to its roster with the Pantech Breakout on Sept 22, for meet $100 after a $50 channel for language a two-year contract.

While the Breakout haw not intend some description awards, at small you crapper savor nearby bag band download (5 to 12 Mbps) and upload speeds (2 to 5 Mbps) on the go.

This Gingerbread (Android 2.3) streaming sound is supercharged by a 1 rate processor, with a 4-inch touchscreen (480 X 800 resolution), a VGA face camera and a 5-megapixel side camera and camcorder confident of actuation 720p videos, Bluetooth and of instruction Wi-Fi. You crapper restraint up to 10 Wi-Fi enabled devices to the Breakout, and crapper deal media files with another Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) gadgets by using the preloaded Net Media app. It doesn't perceive that it includes a 8 GB microSD card. Unfortunately the advise promulgation did not wage some info on its shelling chronicle so we'll hit to provide it the goodness of the uncertainty until we crapper intend our safekeeping on digit of these for testing.

Verizon's vocalise organisation starts at $39.99 for 450 transactions and $50 for 4G of accumulation with tethering (or $30 for 2 GB of meet data) so it's a beatific abstract the phone is relatively affordable. Hopefully the Breakout's enthusiastic toll will provide another manufacturers a near to promulgation meliorate 4G/LTE phones at the $100 range.

[Source: Verizon advise release]

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