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dougm's review of the Pantech Flex
original version, submitted Apr 14, 2014, 2:10 PM:
It had such great potential...
The Pantech Flex is a great piece of hardware. It's too bad that it is hobbled by a shoddy implementation of Android. I find that apps freeze up or malfunction for no reason, or just plain don't work right. For example, the portrait orientation lock doesn't work at all in any apps and it constantly switches back and forth when I move my phone around in my hand. It's a shame that this device probably won't get any future Android updates or fixes. This device had great potential, it's just too bad the software support didn't keep up.
Pros:
Thin and light
Big bright crisp screen (see Cons)
Quad band LTE support (AT&T)
Strong RF performance
Acceptable battery life
Cons:
Screen way too bright even on lowest setting
Some apps just randomly freeze for no reason...Probably more of an android thing... (4.1.2)
Not easy to root/unroot?
Too much AT&T bloatware
USB connector on side
Camera quality
edited Apr 14, 2014, 2:12 PM to read:
It had such great potential...
The Pantech Flex is a great piece of hardware. It's too bad that it is hobbled by a shoddy implementation of Android. I find that apps freeze up or malfunction for no reason, or just plain don't work right. For example, the portrait orientation lock doesn't work at all in any apps and it constantly switches back and forth when I move my phone around in my hand. It's a shame that this device probably won't get any future Android updates or fixes. This device had great potential, it's just too bad the software support didn't keep up.
Pros:
Thin and light
Big bright crisp screen (see Cons)
Quad band LTE support (AT&T)
Fast LTE (up to 50mbps in my tests)
Good RF performance
Acceptable battery life
Cons:
Screen way too bright even on lowest setting
Some apps just randomly freeze for no reason...Probably more of an android thing... (4.1.2)
Not easy to root/unroot?
Too much AT&T bloatware
USB connector on side
Camera quality
edited Apr 23, 2014, 11:37 PM to the current version:
It had such great potential...
The Pantech Flex is a good piece of hardware. It's too bad that it is hobbled by a shoddy implementation of Android and some other hardware quirks. I find that apps freeze up or malfunction for no reason, or just plain don't work right. For example, the portrait orientation lock doesn't work at all in any apps and it constantly switches back and forth when I move my phone around in my hand. It's a shame that this device probably won't get any future Android updates or fixes. This device had great potential, it's just too bad the software support didn't keep up and its screen brightness issue caused me eye strain.
Pros:
-Thin and light
-Big bright crisp screen (see Cons)
-Quad band LTE support (AT&T)
-Fast LTE (up to 50mbps in my tests)
-Good call qualty
-Good RF performance
-Acceptable battery life
Cons:
-Screen way too bright even on lowest setting
-Some apps just randomly freeze for no reason...Probably more of an android thing... (4.1.2)
Not easy to root/unroot?
-Mediocre headphone audio quality/volume
-Too much AT&T bloatware
-USB connector on side
-Camera quality
