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  Samsung has been awarded five iF Material awards by International Forum Design. The award is given to the products which are uniquely designed and Samsung has bagged the most of them this year, including the Gold Award. The Gold Award was given to G Series USB HDDs for its distinct appearance and the usage [...]

  A new firmware of Samsung Jet is floating on the interwebs, claiming to bring in barrage of new features. Users who have installed the new S8000XEII2 firmware, claims the overall performance has been improved. Amongst specific improvements – the Dolphin web browser and media browser have been worked on to make it faster; 3D [...]

  As much as Samsung spends on R&D of phones, it also spends a considerable amount on marketing too. The high profile Jet recently got a viral ad that is fast paced and includes…elephants and UFOs. Not the best of virals we’ve seen from Samsung but conveys the message well. Enjoy the ad. [Thanks Vincenzo]

  Here’s the scenario of the Taiwanese touchscreen mobile market. LG Electronics is the leader with a 17 percent market share while Samsung holds 12 percent. Now to turn things around, Samsung is planning to launch at least 10 touchscreen devices in Taiwan in the remainder of this year as compared to LG who is [...]

  Want a free trip to South Korea and visit one of the world’s biggest company’s headquarters? Well, you may want to enter the Samsung Mobile of the Future contest. Samsung and Financial Times have teamed up wherein a user has to write about 200-300 word paragraph about ‘the key features of the phone of [...]

  We have said this before and we’ll say it again, the global launch of Jet has worked highly in favor of Samsung. Today, Samsung unveiled that they have got beyond expectation response for Jet S8000. Firs t the 2m units preorder and now Samsung Electronics Europe is said to be ramping the production in [...]

  Samsung has unveiled the Korean version of Jet that will be known as W850/W8500/W8550 amongst different operators. To lure the homeland consumers, Samsung has integrated few extra features that won’t be available in the international versions. The first difference that actually cannot be termed as ‘added’ but obvious, is the different placement of front [...]

  Looks like the simultaneous announcement worldwide worked for Samsung. They are happily claiming that more than 2 million units have been ordered before the phone hit the retail stores. That’s pretty impressive because this is the first time Samsung has achieved something like this. Even its flagship UltraTouch could only gather about 1.8m before [...]

  If you read Dutch and have ample of time in your hands, Allaboutphones have reviewed S8000 Jet from each and every possible angle you can think of. They reckon Jet is far away from being tagged as smarter than a smartphone but it’s a great phone in its own right. Though they were not [...]

  UPDATE: Phone Arena and GSM Arena have posted their preview. It’s still under three hours to go for the Unpacked event but it looks Samsung cannot wait any longer. They have officially unveiled Jet touted as the ‘Smarter than a Smartphone’ phone. Samsung’s Jet is a powerpacked that brings in 3.1-inch WVGA AMOLED display [...]