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mic Pearlman here for TechnoBuffalo reviewing the $50 with two-year contract pantech pursuit - this is an AT&T phone follow me in my hot pursuit of the pantech pursuit - after a considerable amount of time spent with the pantech pursuit - I can tell you one thing it's a phone that really does not offer much the pursuit - has a 230 megahertz processor so operating speed was at a base level now this phone also has a touch screen LCD 2.8 inch diagonal and it has a Motorola Droid 3 like keyboard that slides out this phone is also rather portable and stylish I got the Green model but it also comes in several other colors you'll find in any standard rainbow connectivity is also fairly limited we just have a USB terminal and there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack we do have a camera button a lock button and we have physical call back and end buttons on the phone's facade the phone has a 2 megapixel camera and back but it's devoid of a flash and image quality was subpar also video quality resolution way too small for any serious purposes one of the most important aspects of the Pentek pursuit twos existence was its ability to make quality calls especially on the 3G network so if you're looking for just a basic messaging calling phone the pantech pursuit - will do you just right when it came to battery life standby time on the pantech pursuit - was fantastic it's slated up to 250 hours however talktime as soon as you start talking on this bad boy you have up to 3 hours of talktime so it's really not an Everlasting Gobstopper when it comes to call longevity I also found the pursuit to to be exceedingly light on memory it doesn't even ship with a microSD card in the back and I think we have something like 217 megabytes of on-board storage but of course one of the most important things about the pantech pursuit - was its operating system it runs on a brew MP operating system which is code for proprietary pantech last-minute throw in an operating system operating system for the most part I found this operating system to be fairly clunky especially when combined with the 230 megahertz processor basically you have three home screens and on one of the home screens you have the ability to add widgets and programs and applications but the scrolling you get this giant scrolling panel and it's very it's not intuitive at all when it comes to adding widgets to the screen this is not an intuitive phone it's not a phone that you could pick up and instantly take advantage of iOS or Android or any of the easy shortcuts or anything like that and I also download it I paid for Shazam okay and Shazam cannot even recognize song the internet browser on this phone is anything but quick anything but intuitive it reminded me of the molasses swamp from candy land for me it's difficult to justify the purchase of the pantech pursuit - especially when the iPhone 3GS is $50 for AT&T as well it just when you stack them up together it's it's a huge monumental difference the pantech pursuit - maybe too little too late for a TechnoBuffalo I'm Mike Pearlman stay tuned for more reviews at TechnoBuffalo calm