Pantech today announced that it has signed a landmark agreement with Orange to supply branded UMTS phones in France. The new product which will be made available through Orange, - the U4000 - features a video telephony function incorporating a 1.3 mega pixel camera and VGA camera, a 1.9 inch 260,000 color TFT and 72 polyphonic ringtones. Other features include Bluetooth, a Micro SD card slot and an MP3 player.

Dennis Cheong, President, Pantech Europe, said: “This major partnership with Orange is an outstanding testament to the quality of Pantech’s advanced mobile handset technologies. More significantly, the agreement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers in Europe.”

U4000 features include:

• Network: Tri-band / UMTS
• Size & weight: 95 x 43 x 16.5 mm, 90g
• Display: 1.9” 260K TFT (size: 176 x 220 pixels)
• Camera: 1.3 Mega pixel + VGA dual camera72 polyphonic & MP3 ringtonesMemory: 30MB of user memory (+ Micro SD card slot provided)
• Video telephony / Bluetooth
• MPEG4, H.263, H.264
• WAP 2.0, JAVA MIDP 2.0, DRM 1.0