Seeking to boost usage of its new high-speed, long-term evolution data 
network , Verizon Wireless will begin selling its first low-cost 4G smartphone , the Pantech Breakout, on Thursday.
At $99, after a $50 mail-in debit-card rebate and with a two-year voice and data plan, the candy-bar-form Breakout lives up to its name in distinguishing itself from its four LTE Verizon siblings: Samsung's Droid Charge ($299), Motorola's Droid Bionic ($299), LG's Revolution ($199) and HTC's Thunderbolt ($249.)
Loaded With Features
But the Android -powered Breakout is no slouch, with a 1GHz processor, 4-inch capacitive 480x800 touch display, LTE mobile hotspot for tethering as many as 10 Wi-Fi -enabled devices, a virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype technology for quick and easy typing, a 5-megapixel auto-focus rear-facing camera with HD video capture up to 720p and an 8-gigabyte, pre-installed micro-SD card. It ships with version 2.3 of Google's Android operating system.
Verizon did not disclose the phone's memory capacity, but Phone Arena listed it as 512 megabytes, less than the Thunderbolt's 768 MB or the Droid Bionic's one gigabyte.
"At face value, the device looks relatively loaded," said wireless analyst Kirk Parsons of J.D. Power and Associates, who sees premium prices for other 4G devices as temporary. "It's just a matter of time [until] LTE enabled devices will come down in price. With a 4G-type device, the big test will be battery life -- that's where performance is being judged by users relative to previous non-smartphone devices."
The Breakout's 1500 mAh battery is good for 347 Minutes (5.7 hours) of usage time, or 300 hours of standby, Verizon said. By comparison, the 3G HTC Droid Incredible 2 has a 1450 mAh battery that promises 6.5 hours of talk time and 361 hours of standby, according to Phone Arena. (continued...)
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