Today was rife with iPad rumors which may or may not be true. They will be boiling all night until the Apple announcement tomorrow.
Here's the latest we've found on the iPad 3 aka iPad HD:
iPad 3 Next Gen iPad HD News Pre - Apple Announcement
Pantech
Pantech Breakout (Verizon Wireless) Review of Reviews
Pantech Breakout Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News' Review of Reviews
The Pantech Breakout was called the most affordable 4G LTE smartphone on Verizon Wireless. For $49.99, the Pantech Breakout is packed with many features and if you buy one, you can get on free. Along with the double data deal running, it makes for a very reasonable price for a reasonably good smartphone. Verizon Wireless has sweetened the deal evern further, when you use the exclusive code:PRCODEVZW. and wwitch to Verizon, you can get a FREE 4G Pantech Breakout or $50 off select deevices.
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We've had the pleasure of using a Pantech Breakout over the holidays, it kept its pace with other smartphones, we have tested. The Pantech Breakout is good solid smartphone. Many reviewers called it mid-level. Mid-level today was top of the line a few months ago.
Pantech Burst & Element News: 4G LTE Deal $249.99 4 Dual-Core Smartphone & Waterproof Tablet
AT&T is now offering two more 4 LTE devices: the Pantech Burst dual-core smartphone and 8" Pantech Element tablet. To sweeten the deal, AT&T is offering both the tablet and smartphone for $249.99 with contracts.
For those who like to walk out in the rain or sit by the pool when using their the tablets the Pantech Element is waterproof to incidental exposure to water defined as Waterproof (IP57 rated), submergible for up to 1 meter for 30 minutes (with all ports tightly closed). So if falls into the pool or pond while fishing, make sure you fish out immediately.
AT&T New Releases: LTE 4 Pantech Bursts on Scene with Pantech Element for Free & Samsung Exhilarate
AT&T announced many new products this week at CES. So far we have covered the HTC Titan II, Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD, Nokia Lumia 900 and Samsung Galaxy Note. We will bringing you more later on the Xperia Ion. Let's look at the green smartphone, new Pantech smartphone and new water proof LTE tablet. The Pantech products are aggressively priced. The smartphone is free and the tablet price is reduced when you buy them together.
Pantech Element is called an afforable tablet and will cost $299.99 with a two-year contract, on the January 22 release date. The Element is Pantech's first LTE-connected Android tablet, and is waterproof. The Element runs on Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) and includes a 8"touchscreen, front and rear-facing cameras, and a rich web experience with full HTML and PC-like tabbed browsing.
LTE Outage Tip - How to Get VZW Data Satisfaction for Galaxy Nexus, HTC ThunderBolt, Rezound, Droid RAZR, Bionic, Charge & More
The 4G LTE network of Verizon Wireless experienced problems in some cities, today. There could be data disconnections for devices such as the, Galaxy Nexus Droid Charge, Droid RAZR, Pantech Breakout, Samsung Stratosphere, HTC ThunderBolt, HTC Rezound, 4G tablets, and USB modems. If you are Verizon 4G LTE customer, don't panic. A few setting changes will enable 3G data access.
There are outages reported in New York City, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Toledo, and Portland.
Update 12/39/2011: We've received word from Verizon spokesman Tom Pica, "4G LTE issue resolved overnight. 3G operated normally; calling, texting were unaffected."