Pantech Discover comes to AT&T Friday to confirm that last year's top-shelf specs are this year's $50 Android

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Intriguing design? Check. Nice specs? Check. Low price? Check. What else can an Android phone want from life, and the new Pantech Discover delivers it fully, at least on paper.

Coming to AT&T Friday, January 11, the Discover sports that curvy shape that is all the rage amongst industrial smartphone designers when they want to appear trendy, and talk about "ergonomic interaction" at announcements. It will also feature Pantech's Easy Experience mode for prioritizing your most used apps, and, for the first time, AT&T will preload it with its DriveMode service, which aims to prevent texting while driving by shooting out auto-reply messages.

The specs are nothing to sneeze at, too, with the Pantech Discover mirroring your world on a 4.8" HD screen, powered by a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro, and backed by a 2,100 mAh battery. The 13 MP rear camera, 2 MP front-facer and dual speakers round up the goods, and we even get a microSD slot for storage expansion in addition to the 16 GB of internal memory, so all is well with the world.

The price? That will be $50 with contract for you, good sir, or, the way Pantech puts it - "high quality smartphones don't need to come with a high price tag" - and the cheapskate in us wholeheartedly agrees. The downside? It ships with Android 4.0 for now.


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