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when you're looking for a really simple messaging phone you're gonna want one like the Pantech Burst for US Cellular I'm Jessica delcor from Cena's comm we're gonna take a look at this phone now it is a very simple messaging device it has a really cute and compact form to it kind of looks like a bubble or some very nice large key so it's very easy to manipulate mostly black has this bright lime green color as accents along the rim on the keyboard and along the navigation toggle also has sort of a no-slip surface on the back so it is pretty groupable there's a 2 megapixel camera on the back it's not very good you're really not going to be using this to replace your camera they're also not going to be using it to get to the Internet too often because it is less than a 3G phone so it's got about 2.5 g speeds but you are going to use this if you are a messaging daemon so there's text and multimedia messaging on here and the slide up QWERTY keyboard it's in portrait mode which I find really convenient because you slide it up and there it is for you to use you don't have to turn the phone to use it the buttons are also very responsive there are a little bit cramped but my fingers are a little on the smaller side so I found it pretty easy to use and very tactile it was an extremely comfortable experience the phone also has fairly good audio quality I was able to make calls on speakerphone and on a standard phone very well there are some additional buttons on the side here because this phone is so focused on the physical so there's a voice prompt button there's also a button for a shortcut to do menu items there's a camera shutter button as well there's a 2.5 millimeter headset jack which is smaller than the standard so that's a little bit unfortunate and there is definitely room here for a micro SD card which is very good and that goes up to 32 gigabytes and external storage screen size is 2.4 inches it does not a touchscreen you have to use the navigation controls to get around a little bit on the small side it's a little bit cramped for reading out so if you do go online it's a little bit more eye strain involved in that but I would say that it is appropriate especially for such a compact device here not super expensive the pantech verse costs $29.99 with a new two-year service agreement and that's after $50 mail-in rebate if you want to get it prepaid you'll just spend $69.99 to get the phone investing adult court for CNET this is your first look at the pantech verse for US Cellular a very simple but very good messaging