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Review: Pantech Marauder for Verizon Wireless

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Pantech really did a good job with the Marauder. Perhaps its only real weakness is the camera. The hardware is some of the best I've seen from Pantech, which squeezed a lot of functionality into a slim and pocketable smartphone.

It's also one of the best-performing phones I've seen from Pantech in a long time. It's an excellent voice phone, showed strong network performance, and aside from the slightly-less-than-awesome battery life, is a great communicator.

That's what makes the camera and video camera such a bummer. It's not so bad as to nix the Marauder from your list, but if photography is your primary use for a smartphone, you might want to consider something else.

In sum, it's not every day that you come across a sideways slider that gets this many features right.

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Pantech Marauder

3.8" display 480 x 800 pixels
Snapdragon S4 MSM8960-Lite processor 1 GB RAM
1,680 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Hardware Text Keyboard, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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