Samsung Electronics has announced the extension of its Jet series of Smart phones in India with the launch of Samsung Jet 2. The new Samsung Jet 2, while retaining the original features of the Samsung Jet, provides consumers the benefits of advanced features of a smart phone and easy-to-use user interface of a conventional mobile phone.

Samsung Jet 2 features a WVGA AMOLED display (3.1”), 800MHz application processor, Google Push Email and allows media content sharing technology among DLNA certified devices. The phone also comes equipped with an English dictionary and an advanced Media Browser, which allows the users to close several widgets at once through motion control. SNS widgets listed on the phone allows users to easily access various social networking sites.

Announcing the launch of Samsung Jet 2 in the Indian market, Ranjeet Yadav, Director- Mobile & IT, Samsung Electronics said, “Today’s mobile users seek smart features and easy-to –use user interface in their mobiles. Samsung Jet 2 combines both these qualities and gives the user a superior and differentiated experience.”

Samsung’s Dolphin Internet browser is designed to let users surf the net and access popular websites, especially social networking sites, with ease and speed.

The browser enhances the mobile internet experience by allowing users to view up to five web pages simultaneously and bookmark their favourite websites as widgets on the phone’s homepage. A built in ad-blocker, multiple downloading and background downloading feature, and multi-purpose address field, further enhance the experience while Dolfin’s unique one finger zoom enables users to zoom in and out of web pages using only one hand.

Samsung Jet 2’s Multiple applications run both seamlessly and simultaneously through the powerful application processor, enabling users to dip in and out of the features as they wish. With its 3D media gate UI and motion-response UI, users can enjoy a dynamic, content-based experience. The 3D media gate on Samsung Jet II offers easy access to six key multimedia features, such as Photo album, Music player, Video player, FM Radio, Games and internet, all simply accessed by rolling a six sided cube UI on the screen.

Samsung’s latest TouchWiz 2.0 user interface includes new features such as motion UI, smart unlock and customizable widget screen.

Breaking away from multi-touch zoom technology which requires the use of two fingers and two hands, Samsung Jet 2 gives consumers the ultimate in usability, portability and convenience through the brand-new concept – ‘one finger zoom,’ which enables one hand operation to zoom in and out. One finger zoom can be used not only for the Internet browser, but also for Photo browser and file viewer to see TXT, PDF and PPT files in four times bigger size – all just with one finger tip.

Samsung Jet 2 also boasts a host of multimedia features including a 5 mega-pixel camera, built-in GPS, DNSe & SRS Sound Effect technology for superior sound quality, and DivX and XviD video support for hassel-free video downloading and viewing.

The Samsung Jet 2 is priced at Rs. 19, 500.

Smart features with user-friendly interface

Jet’s innovative smartphone-like features take the handset to the realms of being ’smarter than a smartphone’. Opening up a whole new world of web experience, its high performance Dolfin web browser has been developed in-house and allows easy, super fast surfing. Samsung Jet also supports the option of multi-window browsing to surf several web pages simultaneously – up to five pages at any one time. Also, it allows for multi-window web browsing and for book marking widget to save your favourite websites. Samsung Jet features a bespoke multi-tasking manager, making it little bit easier. In addition, the multiple background download, multi-purpose address field and ad-blocker ensure users only need to focus on what they really want to. Samsung Jet is the first feature phone to adopt the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Email system, with a more convenient user interface as a result of more streamlined push-email for business users. Breaking away from multi-touch zoom technology which requires the use of two fingers and two hands, Samsung Jet gives our consumers the ultimate in usability, portability and convenience through the brand-new concept – ‘one finger zoom,’ which enables one hand operation to zoom in and out. One finger zoom can be used not only for the Internet browser, but also for Photo browser and file viewer to see TXT, PDF and PPT files in four times bigger size – all just with one finger tip while you’re on the move.

An Ultra Brilliant Display with AMOLED

The Samsung Jet has a display which offers unrivalled quality and brilliance for its users. The 3.1? Samsung WVGA AMOLED display is four times sharper than a WQVGA screen. Samsung Jet’s screen provides stunning, super bright and vivid images in perfect natural colours, with the very best high resolution display for viewing multimedia on the go. Samsung Jet’s ultra brilliant display has a 180 degree viewing angle, gives a super fast touch response and is also very efficient in its power consumption. Thanks to WVGA AMOLED technology, Samsung Jet consumes 40% less energy than a mobile phone equipped with TFT-LCD display. The remarkable image quality transforms mobile content into amazing visuals. Thanks to the 480dpi brilliance in its WVGA AMOLED display, Samsung Jet provides a high quality multimedia experience, transforming mobile video into pure viewing pleasure.

Speedy Performance with an Accelerated Application Processor

Samsung Jet takes the meaning of performance in full touch mobile phones to another level with its revolutionary speed, which is all thanks to the 800MHz Accelerated Application Processor. This sophisticated high performance processor is Jet’s secret to speed and versatility, integrating multiple applications into one marvelously seamless experience. Instant response from a 3D touch interface matches the speed of touch. The accelerated application processor can integrate various functions such as navigation and viewing, so users can access them all without usual lag time or blurred visuals that can disrupt the pleasure of the experience.

Intuitive Interaction with TouchWiz 2.0

To ensure the most hassle free and pure experience for its user, Samsung Jet features TouchWiz 2.0 user interface (UI), an upgrade from previous TouchWiz user interfaces seen on the F480 (Tocco in UK) and other Samsung full touch mobiles. Building on the strong reputation of the interface of the F480, Samsung Jet houses an advanced TouchWiz 2.0, giving outstanding touch capability in online browsing and a powerful and responsive reaction. Multiple applications run both seamlessly and simultaneously through the use of Jet’s powerful application processor, enabling users to dip in and out of the features as they wish. With its intuitive 3D media gate UI and motion-response UI, users can enjoy a dynamic, content-based experience. The 3D media gate on Samsung Jet offers easy access to six key multimedia features, such as Photo Album, Music player, Video player, FM Radio, Games and internet, all simply accessed by rolling a six sided cube UI on the screen. Samsung Jet features ‘motion gate’, Samsung’s own motion recognition engine which brings you access to your multimedia favorites as well as speed dialing just by tapping, tilting or flipping the handset. To enhance the usability in full touch screen, Samsung introduces ’smart unlock’, a feature which enables users to unlock the phone and execute the menu directly by drawing an alphabet letter on the screen. Users can set up the menu that they want to go to directly according to the alphabet letters from A to Z. The ’smart unlock’ technology allows users to programme their own, customised movements in order to operate the handset, bringing the ultimate in personalisation. Samsung Jet has an online widget function to access useful mobile applications and get live information such as weather, news and search engines by online widget downloading. There are more than 30 widgets already available on Samsung Jet and users can download more from the website. These include a personalisation widget to adapt the screen layout and wallpaper. A three-page main menu and three-page widget screen offer quick and easy application search and reuse.

Powerful, Fun and Easy to use Features

Samsung Jet also has an A-GPS application, to provide navigation services in life-like 3D, to convey real places, information and directions in real-time. This incorporates 3D Map Navigation, GPS on Google maps and location-Based Services. The GPS system features Geo-tagging, enabled through a Geo- magnetic sensor to send location information and updates on traffic conditions by SMS, link location information to navigation, and a compass. Samsung Jet’s GPS application can run on ‘Drive to’ or ‘Walk to’ modes. When it comes to music, Samsung Jet’s unique features give users the option to operate simultaneous playback audio and scroll through the phone’s music library with superb sound quality. For video, the DVD-like video playback recording (with D1 Video Playback and D1 30fps Video Recording) enables seamless playback without residuals and the ability to instantly download and play DivX and Xvid formats without converting, resizing and lateration – all in HD-like quality on its brilliant AMOLED screen.

Samsung Jet Specifications:

• Network: EDGE/GPRS Class 12 (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• HSDPA 3.6Mbps (900, 2100 MHz)
• Display: 3.1? 16M WVGA AMOLED
• TouchWiz 2.0 UI
• Motion UI
• Media Gate 3D
• Multi-tasking Manager
• Camera: 5.0 Megapixel AF camera+ Dual Power LED with Face Detection, Smile Shot, Panorama Shot & Blink Detection
• Photo Editor & Geo-tagging
• Video: D1 Video Playback/D1 30fps Video Recording, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD, Video Editor
• Audio: Music Player with DNSe & SRS WOW Sound Effect, Find Music, 3.5 Ear Jack, FM Radio/Recording, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, MIDI, SP-MIDI, i-melody, WAV, MMF, XMF, OMA DRM v2.1, WMDRM, DivX VOD
• Dolfin Browser
• WAP 2.0
• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
• Share Pix and Mobile Widgets
• A-GPS, On Board Navigation (3D Map)
• Bluetooth v2.1
• microUSB 2.0
• Wi-Fi
• 2GB/8GB internal memory
• MicroSD slot (Up to 16GB)
• Battery: 1,100 mAh – Talk time : 2G/492 minutes, 3G/300 minutes / Standby : 2G/422 hours, 3G/406 hours
• Size: 108.8 x 53.5 x 11.9 mm

The Samsung Jet, which sports a 800 x 480 resolution 3.1? 16M color AMOLED touchscreen display as well as a 5 megapixel camera complete with dual LED flash (offering Face Detection, Smile Shot, Blink Detection), integrated GPS, full featured video and audio player functionality (including DivX and XviD support)

iPhone 3G S is much more than Samsung Jet Smartphone because it has landscape keyboarding which allows the user to text or send-email in a landscape way which the keyboard appears vertically, not horizontally. Both Samsung Jet Smartphone and iPhone 3G S has touch screen ability, in which Samsung Jet SmartPhone uses TouchWiz 2.0 interface with motion UI, while iPhone 3G S also has touch screen but no designated name on it, but more importantly the feature. When it comes to launching apps and web pages, iPhone 3G S has the advantage over Samsung Jet Smartphone, because unlike any other phones existed today, iPhone 3G S launching and browsing speed is twice faster than Samsung Jet Smartphone. In times when we are relying on the digital camera, Samsung Jet Smartphone has the advantage; because it has 5 MP compared to iPhone 3G S’s 3 MP. In terms of internal memory, iPhone has the score over it, because it has two choices, whether you buy 16 GB for $199, or 32 GB for $2.99, and there’s no way Samsung Jet Smartphone could dominate the internal memory of the iPhone 3G S. Samsung Jet Smartphone can view up to 180 degrees in recording videos compare to iPhone 3G S with only limited space to view the videos, although the screen is too big. Multimedia features of both phones are also awesome, but in terms of quality, iPhone 3G S is much more than Samsung Jet SmartPhone.

In terms of entertainment, Samsung Jet Smartphone can only access to limited features because of its internal memory, it cannot gather too much files when a user downloads music, games, movies, and so on. But for iPhone 3G S, since the internal memory is a huge 16 GB or 32 B, it can store up to thousands of songs, movies, games and other software. In other features like the navigator, stocks, video streaming and other types of downloadable applications, it was iPhone 3G S who dominates more than a Smart Jet SmartPhone, which can also download or upload files faster than ever, either in PSP or in your PC. So we already know what are the pros and cons for these hot phones like Samsung Jet SmartPhone and iPhone 3G S. It is important for the buyer itself to compare which ones hot and which ones not, and it depends on the buyer. There’s nothing wrong in either of these two phones, unless they are sold in a “fake” buyer. These phones are really hot as usual in the mobile market today.

 It has awesome quality features when this phone invades the Samsung world, with its high definition features like the TouchWiz 2.0 user interface with motion UI, widget screen that can be customized, and a smart unlock feature that the users will enable this phone to unlock the phone and a menu execution will appear directly, in terms of drawing alphabets on the touch screen. Touch screens are one of the best features that any compatible device that have this kind of feature, in which you can select the menus by a point of the finger, or use a specialized touch-screen pen or stick which are compatible to their respective touch screen phones like iPhone. This Samsung Jet Smartphone touch screen device has an amazing feature which has a processor of 800MHz, and its main operating system, the Dolphin web browser was included. The dimensions of Samsung Jet SmartPhone are smaller compared to popular iPhones, which are to be known as one of the best-selling phones in town, and that results to a tough competition between the two parties.

Samsung Jet Smartphone also full-packed with awesome multimedia features, which includes DNSe, 5MP Camera, SRS sound effect technology for enhanced sound system, built-in GPS, and XVid and DivX for support of downloading videos and good quality viewing purposes. The best thing for their GPS is that they have a feature called geo-tagging, which a geo-magnetic sensor was enabled to send more traffic updates on their conditions in terms of SMS. GPS can be set to either “Walk to” or “Drive to” modes. GPS system also has a compass and information regarding the location of links for navigating purposes.

Samsung Jet Smartphone also has a unique screen which you can view up to 180 degrees, and it only consumes energy to about 30% to 40% than any mobile phone which are totally equipped with TFT-LCD display. Because of the 800MHz processor, Samsung Jet is claimed to be the handset with the fastest full-touch feature ever to be professionally designed worldwide. They also claimed that the Samsung Jet Smartphone is the first ever phone that was professionally designed to success, which the feature of this amazing phone is to implement the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Email System, which offers good quality streamline user interface which results to the improvement of push-emails for any types of users either for business or for entertainment, it doesn’t matter, as long as this phone really shows up good competition to other huge-producing rival companies like Nokia and Ericsson. This amazing phone is highlighted or equipped with “one-finger zoom”, which the one-hand operation is enabled either to zoom in and out of the screen, and it deals with the Samsung’s Dolphin web browser that users may zoom in like a magnifier that they can see such small texts in any file type like PDF, TXT, PPT and other related files to it.

Samsung Jet Smartphone is also equipped with the 3.1 inch 16M WVGA AMOLED screen, which is four times more powerful and better than any types of mobile phones with WQVGA screen, and it claims to be “the most colorful and vivid full-touch mobile” ever in a experience that will change the way of communication, business and entertainment. Along with all of these features, it also has a “motion gate” feature, which the users will grant full access to speed dialing by flipping, tapping or tilting the phone, as well as the multimedia content. It was such a good thing that anything will happen as long as the presence of technology being designed and developed by Samsung, it will certainly make the company successful, just like the brand new Samsung Jet Smartphone. Thousands and millions of shoppers worldwide are now looking for such amazing phones which have great and unique features, which were never seen before, and if they want something new to their pocket, then Samsung Jet Smartphone is what they’re looking for right now as it launches in the big market soon.