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Review: Pantech Link

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The Pantech Link gets a dedicated camera button on the side, but the camera isn't very good. The interface design is clean, with translucent menus, but some keyboard shortcuts might have been helpful. There are very few settings available. A few white balance options and a couple of basic color modes are all you get with this camera. The self-portrait mirror on the back is laughably small. It's impossible to see yourself clearly in the mirror from any distance, let alone from arm's length.

Once you've snapped a picture, it can be confusing to get back to the live viewfinder again. The three contextual buttons, left, right and center, all lead to more options, either to the camera options, the photo album or the send photo menu, respectively. To take another picture, you have to either press the camera button again or press the "C" clear key. Holding the Pantech Link, it's much easier to shoot a picture by pressing the center of the d-pad, instead of pressing the camera button, so I'd like to simply press the d-pad again to take my next shot.

Image Gallery

The image gallery on the Pantech Link is simple, and it manages all the basic tasks for organizing and sending photos. You can view pics in a grid, or get up close in zoom mode to see fine details. There's a slideshow option, as well. From the gallery, you can send pics as MMS messages or upload them to AT&T's Online Locker. Sending pics to the Online Locker costs $10 monthly, or you can pay $0.35 per picture. I had no trouble transferring the files over Bluetooth from the gallery.

There are no editing options in the gallery. You can sideload pics to an external memory card, but there's nothing fancy about this barebones photo album.

Pictures looked okay in the photo viewer, but the camera is fairly low quality, and that definitely hurts the images. Preloaded pics looked much better than shots I took with the built-in camera.

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Pantech Link / P7040p

2.4" display 320 x 240 pixels
1,300 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Hardware Text Keyboard

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