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Samsung Electronics HK. Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider introduced the Samsung Galaxy S, a smartphone that makes users' lives more intelligent, immersive, and integrated.

The Galaxy S is designed to provide immersive, intelligent and integrated experiences, with the power to enrich people's lives through best-in-class services and technologies. The Galaxy S will allow users around the world to experience the "Smart Life," which Samsung anticipates will shift the way that consumers view smartphones and how they interact with them in their daily lives. With the strong line-up of hardware and features on this device, it is indeed the flagship model of the smartphone range Samsung will introduce this year.

The Samsung Galaxy S has been extremely well received by retailers and operators around the world; in fact over 100 mobile operators across the globe have selected the Galaxy S as their key smartphone market driver.

"The Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S will set a new standard for smartphones, and the excitement we've seen from operators and retailers for this device is testament to that," said Billy Chen, Director, Telecommunications Team, Hong Kong. "The Samsung Galaxy S is the perfect device for those who want more out of their mobile life; to be more effective, productive, better connected, and in tune with life – both personal and professional – all this can be achieved in a very easy and simple way. We're extremely confident that this device is going to be very successful in Hong Kong."

Samsung Galaxy S Key Features Include:
• 4.0" SUPER AMOLED: Ultra Brilliant Display on an oversized screen for enhanced viewing pleasure.
• Sleek and Smooth design: 9.9mm ultra slim body, tempered glass and anti-smudge screen technology.
• 1GHz Fast Processor: Multi-tasking has never been smoother sailing.
• eBook: Provides best-in-class reading experience on the phone. Customizable fonts, easy text search, and intuitive book list management offers convenient and customized reading experience.
• HD Video recording and Playback: Super fast 1 GHz processor enhances HD video recording and playback features on dazzling SUPER AMOLED screen.
• Daily Briefing: Offers instant access to weather, news, stocks, and the scheduler.
• AllShare via DLNA: Enables inter-device connectivity via DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance).
• Layar Reality Browser: Shows users' surroundings and displays information on camera-view. Tele Atlas POI provides richer information than ever.
• Swype: Text at hyperspeed with Swype text input method. Provides a fast and easy way to input text on screen while on-the-move (English only).
• Write & Go: Jot down an idea first and later decide to send on SMS/ MMS, email, calendar, memo or publish on your selected social networking sites.
• ThinkFree Office: Apps to view and edit Microsoft Office 2007 documents.
• Smart Alarm: Wakes up with a natural alarm sound and automatically turned-on display light.

Courtesy: Samsung

AT&T and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S., today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Captivate, a Galaxy S smartphone. The Android 2.1-powered Samsung Captivate will bring users a fully integrated entertainment, messaging and social networking experience packaged in an alluring, streamlined design surrounding a stunning 4-inch display.

The Captivate's powerful set of Web-based features is maximized with the addition of AT&T's High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 Mbps technology, which provides a considerable speed boost to the nation's fastest 3G network when paired with expanded backhaul. Speed plus AT&T's dedicated focus to mobilize everything – including video content, social networking, music and messaging – is reflected in Captivate's strong feature set.

The Captivate represents a new breed of smartphones powered by the open and innovative Android platform, with full support of Google Mobile Services including Android Market, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk and more. Users can also access the Android Market and customize their experience with more than 60,000 exciting and useful applications. The Captivate also features Samsung's Super AMOLED display screen technology, a 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird Application Processor and Samsung Social Hub, a feature that integrates the user's social networking services, messages, personal and business email, calendars and contacts.

"Add up Captivate's amazing screen, huge amounts of onboard storage, a super-fast processor, all fueled by the nation's fastest 3G network and a nationwide Wi-Fi network and you get a smartphone we know our customers will crave," said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president, Devices, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.

"With the launch of the Captivate, AT&T customers will experience a groundbreaking handset with world class features that are unique to Samsung's Galaxy S class of devices, including Samsung’s Super AMOLED screen technology and 1GHz Hummingbird Application Processor," said Omar Khan, chief strategy officer for Samsung Mobile. "The Captivate represents a new breed of smartphone that will truly change and enrich the way consumers interact with their device on an everyday basis."

Courtesy: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

The all new Samsung Fizz is the popular name of the Samsung C5212, one of the latest entrants in Indian Dual SIM Mobile Market. Samsung C5212 is one of the best and most affordable Dual SIM Mobile phones launched by Samsung in India.



The Samsung Fizz or C5212 Features & Overview are:

* Mobile simultaneously holds 2 SIM Cards.
* Inbuilt dual SIM Stand by, that allows usability of either SIM.
* WAP/MMS/email supported by Dual SIM
* Inbuilt 1.3MP camera
* Supports MP3, AAC and AAC+ music files
* External speaker
* FM Radio
* Record Radio Broadcast
* Dedicated SIM switching key for easy manual switching between SIM cards with one simple touch
* Allows phonebook sharing between SIM cards
* Distinctive ringtones and user themes for each SIM card
* Comparatively large 5.59cm or 2.2 inch QCIF TFT display with 262K color

The Samsung C5212 offers effortless Dual Standby with a convenience of two different phones in one handset. It allows users to pick and choose between economic calling plans and service carriers. It will come priced at Rs. 7,099 /- and it allows users to enjoy improved usability and full multimedia features available in the phone's sleek and stylish frame.

Samsung Electronics, a leading mobile phone provider, today announced the launch of SAMSUNG Anycall Diva S7070C, a style-conscious phone that marks the start of a new product family of female oriented style-driven phones in the SAMSUNG Anycall portfolio.

Diva design takes technology into luxurious fashion
The SAMSUNG Anycall Diva S7070C is designed for ladies with exquisite taste, sophistication and an amazing personality. From the elegant embossed peralized back cover to the ergonomically designed diamond-shaped function button on the front, the Diva S7070C is the embodiment of glamour and sophistication, and a perfect extension of impeccable design sense. Diva will look right in place with modern ladies’ fashion wardrobe and diva attitude.
"The launch of the Diva S7070C marks Samsung’s commitment to delivering stylish, fashionable and feature-rich phones for female mobile users." said Billy Chen, director of the Telecommunications Team, Samsung Electronics Hong Kong. "Every detail of the Diva S7070C is crafted with the fashionable females in mind. Its chic embossed back cover and tech-friendly features with the softer and feminine touches take technology into luxurious fashion."

Beauty editing features offers feminine fascinations
Capture the Diva in you with the SAMSUNG Anycall Diva S7070C 3.2 megapixel camera featuring 'Beauty Effect' and 'Lomo Effect,' These female centric photo retouching tools amongst a host of other Diva worthy photo editing tools makes capturing the Diva in you effortless. Smile, because a Diva always looks her best.

A feminine touch of beauty
Expressing your feminine personality has never been easier. The SAMSUNG Anycall Diva S7070C has female-centric themes and fonts which you can utilize to dress up your phone user interface. No matter if you’re feeling cursive or cutesy, there is a user interface design that will express that for you. The phone also comes with a specially designed real leather casing in a luxurious pearlized finishing and a delicate pink lining to complete the Diva experience.

A-Z Smart Unlock function to protect privacy and save precious Diva time
The innovative Smart Unlock function of SAMSUNG Anycall Diva S7070C allows customers to unlock the phone and access functions or perform actions, such as speed dial, directly by drawing a preset alphabet from A to Z on the locked screen. Because we know that to a Diva, every minute counts.

Wish List and Shopping Bag are girls best friends
The SAMSUNG Anycall Diva S7070C has been obviously designed with modern ladies in mind. The "Wish List" and "Shopping Bag" function helps users enjoy their shopping experience, categorise and prioritize all the things they want to buy in a Wish List. Not that a Diva would forget to work on her wish list, but we got it covered with a custom alarm for shopping reminders.

Keeping easy tabs on social circles with advanced communicator
The SAMSUNG Anycall Diva S7070C comes with upgraded social networking widgets for staying tuned in social circles. The Pop-up SNS (Social Networking Service) instantly notifies users as soon as updates to your Facebook status is received. Share instantly by uploading photos to favourite social networking sites with one click, thanks to the Communities functions. Palringo is also pre-installed in the Diva S7070 to allow you to use a single portal to chat to friends from multi-instant messenger services. Now that’s Diva worthy.

Acoustic enjoyment enhances personal lifestyle
Other than being equipped with both music player and FM radio, the Shark S5350 is more than your average music jukebox on the go. The Find Music function helps users identify unknown songs. In addition, SoundAlive reproduces the most natural sounding acoustics with 3D effect, even from a tiny mobile.

Courtesy: Samsung

Samsung mobiles are known for their wide array of affordable touchscreen phones. Samsung has recently announced a very affordable 3G Phone; Monte S5620. With the launch of the Monte S 5620 3G, Samsung India has expanded the touchscreen mobile line-up.

Samsung Electronics, one of the world's foremost makers of mobile phones, today announced a sleek, tactile new mobile phone, the powerful Samsung Shark range. The first devices in the range, the candy bar Shark (S5350) and slider phones, devices Shark 2 (S5550) and Shark 3 (S3550), will be available from January.

Samsung today launched a new multimedia phone in India, which surprisingly is not from the Corby series & the first of the Metro series. They've launched the Samsung Metro 5200 multimediaphone in the Indian market.

The new handset is a 10.9mm slim slider phone and is available in dual tone colours. Multimedia features include 3D sound experience and music recognition, 3 MP camera with Smile shot Panorama shot and Face detection technology, Video Recording and Editing features and Preloaded GMail/Google Search, Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0.

The Samsung Metro 5200 is a 10.9mm slim slider phone and has a TFT display that can display 16m colors. This multimedia phone is available in dual tone colours. The Samsung Metro 5200 also has a music player, a music recognition application and a 3 Megapixel camera with Smile shot, Panorama shot & Face detection technology. Some of the other outstanding features of the Metro 5200 include preloaded GMail & Google search options, video editor and Bluetooth 2.1 & USB 2.0 for quick and easy file transfers.

A press release quotes Ranjit Yadav, Director IT & Telecom of Samsung Electronics India "The launch of Metro 5200 in the Indian market reinforces Samsung’s commitment to bring true value products to the market , that are rich both in style and functionality. This stylish multimedia phone comes with a 3 Megapixel Camera and powerful Flash ; Video Recording & Editing features and Preloaded Google mail / Google Search , all at a very affordable price point."

The Metro 5200 comes with a free 1GB Card and is priced at Rs. 7439/-

Samsung has announced a new world's slimmest watch phone, the S9110. While the LG GD910 watch phone is coming to some europe countries next month, Samsung has further slimming the watch phone with its S9110 which features a 11.98mm thickness compare to 13.9mm thickness on LG GD910.

The Samsung S9110 is a direct competitor to arch rival LG's GD910 watch phone that the world came to know about not long ago. Samsung seems to have pipped LG to announce and launch this phone before the LG GD910 is seen in stores.

The Samsung S9110 has it all to make you drool over it. Compatible with GSM dualband (900/1900 MHZ) network, the Samsung S9110 has a 1.76-inch touch screen for touch input, bluetooth and speakerphone.The Samsung S9110 also features -

* a 1.76-inch touchscreen, scratch resistant (obviously) display (176 x 220 pixel resolution)
* speech recognition technology
* Bluetooth with A2DP
* Music player
* Outlook Syncing
* Stainless steel metal body with a leather strap
* supports 900/1800MHz
* 40MB internal memory
* 630mAh battery

From the looks of it the Samsung S9110 is a classy piece of technology. There's a bit surprising is that, there's no mention of 3G connectivity like LG's GD910.

The Samsung S9110 will be released in France for about Price Rs. 31,000 /- (450 Euros) ($639). Dick Tracy must be smiling his head off somewhere!

Samsung has strengthened its touch screen portfolio by announcing the launch of Samsung Star Samsung Star 3G full touch screen phones in the Indian market. Boasting compact designs and intuitive usability, the products are aimed at customers looking for full touch phones at more affordable price points. Samsung Star represents the first touch screen phone that the company is manufacturing at its manufacturing facility at Noida. Samsung also announced the launch of its innovative, music phone with touch screen functionality, Samsung BEAT DJ.

With the launch of the three new touch screen phones, Samsung now has a portfolio of seven touch screen phones, ranging from Star to its flagship touch screen phone, Ultra Touch launched last month.

"Samsung Star and Samsung Star 3G are significant additions to our full-touch screen mobile portfolio, featuring all the essential functions in one single device. At Samsung, our effort is to deliver various full touch products for every consumer lifestyle," said Sunil Dutt, Country Head, Samsung Mobile Division.

Samsung Star (S5233)
Samsung Star comes with the latest multimedia features in a slim and compact body that measures a mere 11.9mm. It also comes with a stylus for convenience. Other features include -

* a 3.0-inch WQVGA full-touch screen and Samsung’s TouchWiz User Interface with Mobile Widgets and an accelerometer sensor
* “Photo Contact,” to call a contact by touching an appointed image.
* a 3.2 mega-pixel camera with smile recognition
* multi-format playback and Samsung’s DNSe sound engine
* recognition using Shazam’s “Find Music” service
* 50MB Internal memory, expandable up to 8GB via microSD cards
* Google applications like Google Search, Gmail, Google maps; online widgets and photo blogging

Gesture Control is a new feature added that allows the user to unlock the touch screen or run an application by just giving a gesture command. For example - to call a friend, you don’t need to search his/her number in the contacts list, just give a gesture command (A, B or C as per your preference and setting) - the phone will recognize the command and dial the number. In addition, the user can also customize various applications like C- Call, M – Music, I – Internet etc.The phone also supports a virtual QWERTY keyboard for messaging and handwriting features.

Samsung Star 3G (S5603)
The second handset, the Samsung Star 3G comes with full Internet browsing support with an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotation and, as the name suggests, is a 3G enabled phone. It’s equipped with the same features as the S5233 including Gesture Control. It also has a 3.2 mega-pixel camera with Power LED Flash and 80MB Internal memory expandable up to 8GB.

BEAT DJ
Samsung's BEAT DJ handset was announced at MWC earlier this year and has finally made it to our shores. Running Samsung’s intuitive DISC User Interface, the BEAT DJ comes fully loaded with Bang & Olufsen audio technology.

"Samsung BEAT DJ is designed to take music on mobile phones to a whole new level of quality and exciting user experience. With amazing sound quality and advanced music application, the BEAT DJ J will appeal to a growing base of consumers who want to consolidate their music playing devices without compromising on style, function and experience", said Dutt.

With the BEAT DJ application & DISC UI, users will be able to add preloaded voice samples and sound effects to their favorite songs and record it. Users can also ‘scratch’ the records by swiping their fingers across the display. The handset comes with the following feature set -

* 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (240 x 400 pixels with 16 million colors), accelerometer
* 50MB internal microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
* 3MP AF camera, Geo-tagging, Smile Shot, Face Detection
* HSDPA, EDGE
* Bluetooth v 2.1, USB 2.0 (micro)
* GPS with A-GPS
* DivX, XviD, WMV, MP4 playback support
* 3.5mm AV socket, DNSe, SRS Virtual Surround
* FM radio with recording
* 50MB internal memory, expandable to 8GB with the micro SD card

The Samsung BEATDJ is also equipped with built-in real stereo speakers - powered by B&O's ICEpower amplifier.

The Samsung Star S5233, S5603 and Beat DJ are priced at Rs. 11,100, Rs. 14,499 and Rs. 18,990 respectively.

Source: tech2.in.com

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500 mobile, its first Google Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of Samsung I7500 mobile phone, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.

"Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most innovative Google Android mobile phone," said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics. "With Samsung's accumulated technology leadership in mobile phone industry and our consistent strategy to support every existing operating system, I believe that Samsung provides the better choices and benefits to our consumers" he added.

The Samsung I7500 mobile is a cutting-edge smartphone, featuring a 3.2" AMOLED full touch screen and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, giving users access to Google Mobile services and full web browsing at blazing speeds.

The Samsung I7500 mobile offers users access to the full suite of Google services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. The integrated GPS receiver enables the comprehensive use of Google Maps features, such as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, local search and detailed route description. Hundreds of other applications are available in Android Market. For example, the application Wikitude, a mobile travel guide, allows consumers to access details of unknown sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.

Based on Samsung's proven product leadership, Samsung I7500 mobile comes with latest multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2"AMOLED display ensures the brilliant representation of multimedia content and enjoyable full touch mobile experience. Along with supporting a 5-megapixel camera and various multimedia codec formats, the Samsung I7500 mobile also provides a long enough battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity up to 40GB (Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB) to enjoy all the applications and multimedia content. Samsung I7500 mobile phone also boasts its slim and compact design with mere 11.9mm thickness.

Samsung I7500 Mobile Features:
Network: HSDPA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps (900 / 1700/ 2100MHz)
EDGE / GPRS (850/ 900/1800/1900)
OS: Android
Display: 3.2” HVGA(320x480) AMOLED
Camera: 5 MP Camera (Auto Focus), Power LED
Video: Video: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV
Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, RA
Value Added Features: Full Web Browser Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Android Market
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, MicroUSB, 3.5mm ear jack
Memory:
Internal memory: 8GB
memory: Micro SD (Up to 32GB)
Battery: 1500 mAh
Size: 115 x 56 x 11.9mm

The Samsung I7500 Android Mobile will be available in major European countries from June, 2009.

Courtsey: press.samsungmobile.com