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Pantech Vega Secret Note off to a strong start in South Korea; should Samsung be worried?

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

A little over a month ago, we saw Pantech launch its Vega Secret Note phablet. With a 5.9-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 800 SoC, 13-megapixel camera, and 3GB of RAM – not to mention the name Pantech gave it – the phone seemed destined for comparisons to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3. It’s easy to dismiss the Vega Secret Note as a ripoff, lacking premium features like a stylus that uses an active digitizer panel, as opposed to the capacitive pen Pantech ...

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Hey, OEMs: either do a stylus right, or not at all

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

We’re finally going full-circle on the stylus. Back in the Windows Mobile days, the stylus was king, and if you wanted any kind of precision with that less-than-touch-friendly UI on those tiny screens, you absolutely had to have one. But as capacitive displays rose to prominence, the once-noble stylus fell by the wayside, sticking out like a sore thumb, a banner of a previous era. As the years went on, the stylus seemed to fade away from our collective consciousness, but then a little over two years ago, at the 2011 IFA, Samsung debuted the original Galaxy Note with its S Pen. Since ...

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Pantech launches fingerprint-scanning Vega Secret Note with Snapdragon 800, 3GB RAM, and stylus

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

We are on a bit of a kick when it comes to new phablets this morning; we only just wrapped-up telling you about LG’s new G Pro Lite, the company’s budget-minded 5.5-inch handset, and now Pantech has gone official with a phablet of its own, the 5.9-inch Vega Secret Note. This phone managed to show itself a little early, and though its specs were rumored at the time, both the phone’s name (now adding that “secret” bit) ...

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