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Texting specialists - AT&T introduces 4 dumbphones with physical QWERTY keypads
AT&T's four new "dumbphones" with full QWERTY keyboards. Clockwise from upper left 1) Pantech Slate, 2) Pantech Matrix, 3) AT&T Quickfire, and 4) Samsung Propel.
As evidence of the growth of text messaging in the United States, AT&T introduced yesterday four new "dumbphones", but with full physical QWERTY keyboards. The devices all have distinct designs, but share one thing in common - the foucs on text messaging.
The four devices include:
Pantech Matrix - It slides two ways: a conventional vertical slide to reveal a numeric keypad, and a second side slider for the full QWERTY keyboard.
Samsung Propel - It looks similar to the i620, but does not run Windows Mobile operating system found on the i620 smartphone.
Pantech Slate - Claimed to be the thinnest QWERTY device in the world.
Quickfire - Looks like the Sidekick, it has a touchscreen in addition to a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard.
See EngadgetMobile for more details on these devices and expected launch dates.
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