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Samsung has announced Jet 2 in India and to be honest, it’s the same as original Jet but apparently with an “easy-to-use user interface of a conventional mobile phone”. The Jet 2 feature set remains the same with 800MHz applications processor, 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (WVGA), Dolfin browser, DLNA compatibility, Media browser, one-finger zoom, FM [...]

 
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 Cube [...]

 
Dutch site, Tweakers received a profile of Samsung’s M8000 phone that reveals some interesting facts of the Jet lookalike phone. If you remember M8000 was leaked alongside S8000 (better known as Jet) and was slated to be a music-centric variant. Well, music will still be the key but a major revelation is that it will [...]

 
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 planning [...]

 
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 the [...]

 
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 order [...]

 
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 video [...]

 
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 the [...]

 
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 happy [...]