www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Media, the UK based firm, has reportedly announced a new unlimited monthly mobile tariff offering unlimited text, talk and internet for GBP 65 per month on an 18-month contract. The new tariff is available exclusively for existing Virgin Media customers taking their broadband, TV or landline service.
It is available with high-end handsets including the Nokia N86 and the Samsung Jet. The tariff offers unlimited cross network minutes, unlimited Virgin to Virgin (mobile) calling, unlimited text messages and unlimited internet access within the UK. The ‘unlimited’ data offer is subject to a fair use policy of 1 GB per month. Unlimited texts, unlimited cross network minutes and unlimited Virgin mobile to Virgin mobile calls are subject to a fair use policy of 3,000 per month.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung Jet extends available markets more than 70 countries by end of July Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone and telecommunication provider, announced today that the Jet, the mobile smarter than a smartphone, achieved the fastest ever market expansion in Samsung mobile’s history by achieving a record-breaking pre-order with more than 2 million units.
“I am very pleased that Samsung Jet is proved and well accepted in the market with being expanded at fastest-ever speed in the markets. Thanks to strong anticipation and demands from operators and end-users, Samsung Jet would become another landmark mobile of Samsung’s history.” said Sandeep Saihgal, general manager of mobile phone at Samsung Gulf Electronics.
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia N97, the newly launched handset by Vodafone UK, has become operator’s best selling handset for the month of July. The handset which stood at second plance for Nokia’s S60 5th Edition smartphone, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The Sony Ericsson W595 Walkman is on the third place, followed by the C510 Cyber-shot, also from Sony Ericsson. The fifth place is taken by the brand new Samsung Jet.
The other five phones that made it into the top 10 are:
6. Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition
7. Samsung Steel L810
8. Nokia 6300
9. BlackBerry Storm
10. HTC Magic
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung, the mobile handset manufacturer, anticipates that among the launch of various full touchscreen handsets, Samsung Star S5230, will surely prove to be a star in terms of sales, beating the Symbian flagship Omnia HD i8910, 12 megapixel Samsung Pixon 12 and the “Smarter than smartphone” Samsung Jet. The handset’s sales are expected to reach 10 million mark by 2009-end.
Samsung S5230 Star, according to media reports, is selling a rate of more than 1 million handsets every month.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung, the mobile handset manufacturer, intends to boost its market share in the Thailand mobile market to 30%, up from 20% in 2008, Head of Telecom Marketing with Samsung Thailand, Manatase Annawat, repotedly said. Samsung further said will launch Samsung Jet in the country by June-end for THB 16,500, and expects to sell about 18,000 units in 2009.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung Jet, the newly introduced touchscreen handset, is now available in UK on Vodafone’s network, but the exclusivity is likely to expire in two weeks. Vodafone is also offering the handset for free on few contracts. The subscribers in order to have the handset for free of charge will have to subscribe to a 2 year contract and will have to pay £20 monthly. The 18-month agreements require £25 plans, while the 12-month ones require £40 plans.
The handset can be bought from Vodafone UK site.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung Electronics has launched its new touchscreen handset dubbed as Samsung Jet. The handset adorns a WVGA AMOLED touch screen, a 800MHz processor, 5 megapixel camera, built-in GPS, DNSe & SRS sound effect technology, and DivX and XviD video support.
The Samsung Jet also has the TouchWiz 2.0 user interface and supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. The device features Samsung’s Dolfin internet browser, a multi-tasking manager, FM radio and a motion recognition engine.
Samsung’s other announcements included the Omnia Pro B7320, a slab-style Windows Mobile phone with a keyboard; the Omnia Pro B7610, which has both a touch screen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and the Omnia Lite B7300, a touchscreen Windows Mobile phone.