PANTECH

Pantech is the name and brand of a Korean mobile phone company founded in 1991.

Since its inception, Pantech has produced number callers, wide-area callers, voice callers, FLEX-based high-speed callers, industrial radios, short-term TRSs,
business vehicle radios, FINKEY, FINSIGN, PHS, CT-2 PLUS, PCS, WLL/GSM/PDA, line image transceivers, black-and-white/color surveillance cameras,
CCD camera modules, PC input cameras, video boards, modems, VGA cards, videoconferencing systems, EDUTAINMENT PARK, etc.

Since 1994, it has entered the CDMA-based mobile phone market and introduced 3G WCDMA folder phones,
then for the smartphone business in 2010, introduced Sirius, Izar, Vega and Mirac.
All of them are named after stars in the galaxy.
Among them, the company branded Vega S and Vega X,
and released its mega-hit Vega Racer, which sold 1.5 million units,
overtaking LG Electronics as the No. 2 player in the Korean smartphone market.

Pantech had KDDI, au and a number of non-Korean telecommunication companies as its clients.
In particular, the company has partnered with AT&T, the second-largest U.S. carrier,
to release a number of products, including low budget smartphone ‘Bust’ and waterproof tablet ‘Element’,
at that time they used the brand of ‘Pantech’.