Digital Trends have published a review of the Pantech Matrix smartphone. 'One of the first things we noticed about the Matrix after firing it up was its subpar display quality. Pantech must have scored a great deal on these screens from a surplus shipment left over from 2002, because that’s exactly what they look like. The lack of color range produced choppy gradients, the low resolution made text look choppy and graphics look pixilated, and there was a subtle “screen door effect,” in which the tiny grid between pixels is visible. Superior brightness helps mask some of these flaws, but in general, it’s not a pretty or refined-look display.'