Korean mobile phone manfacturer Pantech have unveiled the Pantech IM-U110: a new mobile music phone that offers a whopping 1GB of flash memory. Rather than following the likes of Nokia and Samung, who are releasing multi-gigabyte mobile phones this year with hard disk drives built-in (Samsung are even planning to put a 10GB hard disk into its forthcoming SGH-I300 phone), Pantech have gone for the more robust flash memory option. Being Korean, of course, they weren’t satisified with the miserly 512MB of its rivals, such as Sony Ericsson’s Walkman phones. Instead, they felt 1GB would be a far better amount. And who can argue with that?

 

It also comes fully-loaded with a variety of other features as well, including a 2 megapixel camera. Better still, Pantech announced at CES that they intend to push further into US and European markets this year, so although at the moment this is destined only for Korea (courtesy of SK Telecom), it may be on its way to further shores later in the year.

 

Maybe that’s why the phone departs from its Korean predecessors, and looks so damned good? Western markets are notoriously fashion-led, as opposed to Asian markets, which tend to be more feature-led. On first impressions, the new Pantech IM-U110 seems to have both sorted.

 

Read all about the Pantech IM-U110 mobile phone after the jump

 

 

 

With 1GB of storage, the new Pantech IM-U110 is good for over 1024 high resolution pictures (2 megapixel camera, remember), or 200 MP3 tunes, or even 1,800 games, should you be the type who needs overwhelming with choice!

 

Of course, 1GB is good, but not as good as Samsung’s forthcoming 10GB hard-disk based SGH-I300. Where the Pantech scores, though, is that because it uses flash memory, it’s smaller, more robust, produces less heat and vibration, and you don’t need no fancy “gyro sensors” that have to save data should the phone receive a knock.