Samsung announces Dual Music Slider Symbian Smartphone dedicated for Music Lovers

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2007-10-17 08:58

London--(뉴스와이어)--Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and Symbian Limited, today announced the Samsung i450, a music dedicated Symbian smartphone. The Samsung i450, the newest HSDPA mobile phone, brings both attractive dual-slider design and various multimedia features to Samsung’s new Symbian Smartphone portfolio. The i450 will be on display at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London October 16 and 17 2007.

The mobile phone applies HSDPA connectivity at 3.6 Mbps so that users are available to enjoy multimedia features with higher data download speeds. Running Symbian OS™ v9.2 and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1, the Samsung i450 provides access to thousands of applications available from the S60 applications library and multitasking features in faster data speeds while ensuring the highest level of power efficiency and reliability from Symbian OS.

The Samsung i450 is a dual slider which slides up to reveal a spacious alphanumeric keypad for making calls or communication and down to reveal metallic speakers. It includes a touch navigation half-wheel which is an innovative arc that enables users to easily navigate the device when the phone is held sideways, putting the display in optimal landscape view. Perfectly located between the speakers, the half-wheel is also ergonomically shaped to follow the natural movement of the user’s thumb, making phone navigation easier, more comfortable, and more intuitive when switching through multimedia menus.

Samsung’s Samsung i450 addresses the needs of the growing consumer segment, which demonstrates mobile and music to come hand in hand. The Samsung i450 combines extensive music player capabilities with super sound quality highlighted by ICEpower? amplifier developed by Bang & Olufsen?. It features a dedicated music interface to make navigation and listening easier, and to store more music, the phone offers 35MB internal memory and microSD™ slot which is expandable up to 4GB. Moreover, 2.4” large LCD screen offers convenient multimedia mobile experiences including MP3 player, a 2 megapixel primary camera with flash and a VGA camera for video calling.

Samsung i450 will be available in Europe from October 2007.

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2006 parent company sales of US$63.4 billion and net income of US$8.5 billion. Employing approximately 138,000 people in over 124 offices in 56 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, Telecommunication Network Business and Digital Appliance Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com

About Symbian Limited

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q2 2007, 18.7 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 30 June 2007 to 145 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United Kingdom, United States and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan). For more information, please visit Symbian.

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