Verizon Drops Low-End Clamshell Windows Mobile Smartphone

If you’re a Verizon Wireless customer, and you want a smartphone without all the clutter that goes along with a QWERTY keypad, then the Pantech PV-820 is here to answer your prayers. Running Windows Mobile 5, the average-looking flip phone has access to your Exchange server, the ability to read Office documents from your corporate network, and all the other (hard-to-use) goodness of WinMo: Smartphone Edition.

Besides rocking the MS OS, the VZN clamshell features a 1.3-Megapixel cam with flash (nice!), Bluetooth, and EV-DO. In addition, you get a microSD card slot for music. Since the WinMo comes with a micro version of the Windows Media Player, this phone is in line with the rumors that VZN is switching its music strategy from its V-Cast service to Microsoft’s PlaysForSure, meaning music you download from any PlaysForSure store should play nice with this $149 Pantech.

PN-820 [Product Page, you'll need your ZIP]

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Sascha (Who am I?)

Hmmm… does not look as nice as the HTC Windows Mobile clamshell that is sold as the Cingular 3125.

 
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Kat (Who am I?)

You guys need to quit saying “drops.” Every time I see that in a headline, I think that someone has discontinued a product, not released it.

 
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Matt Hickey (Who am I?)

@ Kat: yah, it does sound like that a bit. It’s blogspeak, I promise we didn’t make it up. We’ll start using the word “trickle”, yah? :-D

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