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The Pantech Link uses the simplest of mobile Web browsers. It's sluggish, somewhat unresponsive and unable to render many pages in their full desktop mode, resorting to a truncated mobile view instead. You can set the browser to render pages in a non-mobile view, but the layout can be lousy, and some sites, like CNN and the New York Times, flat-out refuse to offer anything but a mobile page. Our own PhoneScoop.com homepage was passable, but the browser does not keep rendered images in memory, and it draws pictures slowly as you pan around a page. There is a zoomed-out mode where you can select a small portion of the page to view, and this was helpful, but it didn't make up for the sluggish navigation.

Text looks good in the mobile browser, and the default font is plenty legible, even for longer stories. Images suffered, even when the browser was set to high quality. Worst of all, though, the browser just seemed slow to load pages. Even over AT&T's 3G network, pages would stall and take longer to load than I expected. There's a progress bar at the bottom of the screen, but it doesn't actual meter your progress, it just tells you when a page is still loading, and this was frustrating. Even setting a page as a bookmark took an extra long time.

For simple mobile browsing, the browser will get the job done. But if you're expecting anything more advanced on this full-QWERTY, Quick Messaging device, it's best to look elsewhere.

Customize

There are very few options to customize the Pantech Link. You can change the basic theme of the device from a mostly white background to a mostly black. You can change the main menu layout from an icon grid to a list format. You can also add or remove shortcuts from the Shortcut menu on the standby screen. That's about it. You can't change the basic menu hierarchy, and there are no themes to offer a new look. There were no widgets or functional tools to be placed and arranged on the standby screen desktop.

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