Pantech Discover review: Unlikely hero

Synthetic benchmarks

The Pantech Discover sports a Snapdragon S4 chipset with two Krait CPU cores, clocked at 1.5GHz, to go with an Adreno 225 GPU. The same internals can be found in just about every top shelf Android smartphone launched in the United States last year. Naturally, the smartphone performed in line with similarly equipped devices. Here's how it fared.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

• Pantech Discover
  270
• HTC One X (Snapdragon S4)
  279
• HTC One S
  306
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  338
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  344
• Samsung Galaxy Express
  346
• Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
  351
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus
  408
• Samsung Galaxy S II Plus
  409
• Samsung Galaxy S II
  452
• Sony Xperia S
  536

Quadrant

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S III
  5365
• Pantech Discover
  5328
• HTC One X (Snapdragon S4)
  5146
• HTC One S
  5047
• Samsung Galaxy Express
  4998
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  4842
• Samsung Galaxy S II Plus
  3542
• Samsung Galaxy Note
  3531
• Sony Xperia S
  3173
• Samsung Galaxy S II
  3053
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus
  2316

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• LG Optimus G
  29
• Apple iPhone 5
  27
• Nexus 4
  26
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  17
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  15
• Samsung Galaxy S II
  13
• Pantech Discover
  13
• Samsung Galaxy Express
  12
• HTC One X+
  12
• Samsung Galaxy S II Plus
  11
• HTC One X
  9

AnTuTu

Higher is better

• HTC One
  22678
• Sony Xperia Z
  20794
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  15547
• Oppo Find 5
  15167
• HTC Butterfly
  12631
• Pantech Discover
  9934

SunSpider

Lower is better

• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1447
• Samsung Galaxy S II Plus
  1460
• HTC One S
  1708
• New Apple iPad
  1722
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  1757
• Pantech Discover
  1778
• HTC One X (Snapdragon S4)
  1834
• Samsung Galaxy S II
  1849
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus
  1863
• Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
  1891
• Apple iPhone 4S
  2217
• Sony Xperia S
  2587

As you can probably guess, the smartphone handled every task we threw at it with ease. Its internals also make it future proof too.

A hassle free phonebook

The Pantech Discover phonebook offers the typical for all Android smartphones functionality. There is practically no limit to the amount of detail you can add to a contact.

The phonebook • editing a contact

Telephony

The telephony of the Pantech Discover does offer smart dialing and works like a charm. The call quality was flawless and so was the signal reception.

Telephony doesn't disappoint

The speaker quality is superb too - it benefits greatly from the duo of speakers on board.