Samsung announces new Symbian smartphone with 5 megapixel camera - Samsung G810

Samsung launches seven Symbian smartphones in seven months

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain - 11 February, 2008 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and Symbian Limited, today announced the Samsung G810, with a 5 megapixel camera. This announcement marks Samsung's seventh Symbian smartphone in seven months. Running Symbian OS™ v9.2, the Samsung G810 ensures the highest level of power efficiency and platform security.

The Samsung G810 has HSDPA connectivity at 3.6 Mbps, allowing users to enjoy multimedia features at higher data download speeds. The phone offers users seamless connection through Wi-Fi connectivity. Based on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, G810 users can also access a rich suite of applications on offer from the S60 applications library.

Samsung
Geesung Choi, President of Samsung's Telecommunications Network Business, said: "The introduction of Samsung's G810 shows our continued commitment to bring Symbian OS-based smartphones to the market. We will continue to provide a wide variety of mobile phones with Open OS to meet the needs and lifestyles of today's consumers."

Symbian
Nigel Clifford, Chief Executive Officer, Symbian, said: "We have been working very closely with Samsung to help bring seven Samsung phones to the market in seven months. Their stylish design and advanced functionality combines the very best of easy-to-use mobile information and entertainment services with the highest level of power efficiency and reliability from Symbian OS. We welcome Samsung's new G810 and look forward to supporting Samsung on more phone projects in the future."

In 2007, Samsung launched six mobile smartphones based on Symbian OS including: the Samsung i400, i400 Chinese variant, i450, Samsung i520, i550 and i560. All six phones are currently available in the market. For more information: http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2007/pr20079464.html

More about G810

Samsung G810 will be available in Europe from March 2008.

The G810 has features of high end digital camera phone including 5 megapixel camera optical inner zoom and face detection. With the video editor application, users are able to edit images taken on the phone and share with friends and family without connecting to a PC.

The Samsung G810 is a slider phone with a metal brushed body. The large 2.6" TFT LCD screen offers a convenient environment when viewing content on the Internet or maps on the GPS navigation feature. The phone is equipped with a 3.5mm earphone allowing users to use their favourite headphones without using a separate adaptor.

To learn more about Samsung's latest handsets, visit the Samsung stand 8A129 at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. For more information on Symbian please visit the Symbian stand 8A877 located in Hall 8.

About Samsung Electronics Ltd

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2007 consolidated sales of US$103.4 billion. Employing approximately 150,000 people in 134 offices in 62 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, Telecommunication 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 Q3 2007, 20.4 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 30 September 2007 to 165 million.

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

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