New on the list of cell phones US Cellular offers is the Pantech Verse, a green little mobile phone with a good price and decent features.
The fact that its named with a word in the English dictionary instead of a random mix of letters and numbers might suggest this is a smartphone, but it’s not. The Verse is a regular phone with a slide-up QWERTY keyboard. While it’s mostly black, it can probably be characterized as green since the color appears on almost every edge of the phone and along the type of the keyboard. Talk time is about average for a feature phone at up to 4.8 hours.
It has a 2.4-inch display that you’ll have to navigate with the buttons below it. There’s a 2MP camera on the back that can also shoot video, 128MB of internal storage expandable via a memory card slot, a music player, a mobile web browser, email and Bluetooth. The Verse comes preloaded with a few apps, namely Pac-Man, Tone Room Deluxe, City ID, My Contacts Backup, Accuweather.com Premium, mSpot Radio, Daily Perks, Do Not Disturb and Social Scene. Will you ever use the majority of these? Probably not, but they’re there if you do.
The Pantech Verse sells for a reasonable $29.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. A data plan of at least $10 per month for the first three months is required as is a two-year contact with US Cellular. Because of its green and black design, its not exactly Mothers’ Day material, but its still a nice choice for anyone who’d rather use their phone for texting than running from temples.