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Samsung Jet S8000 has got a review from our good friends at the MobileBurn. I have shortened the review and also put the conclusion under. And as a spoiler, they give the Samsung S8000 Jet a “Highly Recommended” title! Enjoy

SAMSUNG S8000 JET REVIEW

Samsung, the korean manufacturer touted this phone with “Smarter than Smartphone” label; which makes everyone who are cell phones geek curious about the Samsung S8000 Jet. I won’t talk much about the list of specs of the phone, you can see it here

Samsung Jet S8000 Design, Screen

Samsung Jet has an interesting design; with a common touchscreen phones size and weight (109mm x 54mm x 12.5mm; 110.8 grams). The main case material is comfortable plastic, and the phone has soft corners and slightly curved surfaces. Continue reading ‘Samsung Jet S8000 Review: Specs, Features’ »

So now the Samsung Jet S8000 is available in its hometown, Korea. After being launched by Vodafone in UK recently, the Samsung Jet S8000 hits Korea in three carriers, the SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom. Each carrier has different name yet the same phone for the Jet; which are Samsung W850, Samsung W8500 and Samsung W8550.

There’s a slight difference between the Korean version of Samsung Jet S8000. The Korean W850/W8500/W8550 as additional DMB support and a WVGA AMOLED display of 3.5 inches (as opposed to Jet’s 3.1 inches screen).

So besides those addition, the specs and features of the Korean version of Jet S8000 is just the same with the original one, which you can see here

Yeah, I know this story is kinda old (well, not so old actually), but I just want to provide more detailed information about the hot Samsung Jet S8000. To date, lucky people in United Kingdom can order the Samsung Jet S8000 that was announced just recently. The Samsung Jet S8000 which has attracted more than 2 million people to pre-order it can now be purchased for free if you are on contract plan with the Vodafone UK. So here’s the contract detail:

1. £20 monthly for 2-yr contract plan
2. £25 monthly for 18-month contract plan
3. £40 monthly for 12-month contract plan

So the phone that was touted by its manufacturer as a phone that is smarter than a smartphone has cool specs and features such as:

• 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with 480 x 800 pixels and 16 million colors
• 800MHz processor
• TouchWiz 2.0 UI
• 2GB / 8GB / 16GB of internal memory
• 5MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash
• Wi-Fi
• GPS
• MicroSD card support

So now the Samsung Jet S8000 can be purchased online via Vodafone UK’s website.

Remember the recent post about the phone that is claimed to be smarter than a smartphone; the Samsung Jet S8000’s announcement? Well, there’s a new information I got over at the internet that more than 2 million people have pre-ordered the Samsung Jet S8000. Impressive, Samsung!

The Samsung Jet S8000 specs and features is practically what make so much people want to have it on their hands. It is currently the fastest smartphone available on the market (or so the Korean company claimed) with 800 MHz processor; 2GB of internal memory, TouchWiz UI 2.0, Wifi, GPS, a 5 MPx camera, 3.1 inch WVGA screen, etc. Continue reading ‘The Popular Samsung Jet S8000: 2 million people pre-ordered it!’ »

The giant Korean manufacturer Samsung has officially announced the Samsung Jet Smartphone.  Some notable specs and features of this new Samsung Jet S8000 are the 16M WVGA AMOLED display (3.1”) which has 4 times the resolution of WQVGA screen, whooping 800MHz processor that surely enough to support the performance. In fact, Samsung Jet is the fastest full touch handset on the market today.

The phone also features multi-task manager and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, with a user-friendly menu navigations in a sleek and compact design.

Samsung’s latest TouchWiz 2.0 user interface new features such as intuitive 3D media gate UI and motion-response UI, smart unlock, customizable widget screen. The 5 mega-pixel camera, built-in GPS, DNSe & SRS Sound Effect technology for superior sound quality, and DivX and XviD video support for hassel-free video downloading and viewing.

I don’t have information about the price yet, but this one will be a nice addition to Samsung phones this year

UPDATE: It seems that Samsung Jet S8000 also has autofocus feature and dual LED Flash to improve the camera performance. The Samsung Jet S8000 also has 2GB / 8GB / 16GB of internal memory and MicroSD card support. About the price, Samsung Jet will be sold (from vodafone UK) for  £20 monthly if you are on 2-yr agreement contract plan, £25 monthly if you are on 18-months agreement contract plan, and £40 if you are on 1-yr agreement contract plan.

UPDATE II: here’s the list of full specs of Samsung Jet S8000:

• Network: EDGE/GPRS Class 12 (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• HSDPA 3.6Mbps (900, 2100 MHz)
• Display: 3.1? 16M WVGA AMOLED
• TouchWiz 2.0 UI
• Motion UI
• Media Gate 3D
• Multi-tasking Manager
• Camera: 5.0 Megapixel AF camera+ Dual Power LED with Face Detection, Smile Shot, Panorama Shot & Blink Detection
• Photo Editor & Geo-tagging
• Video: D1 Video Playback/D1 30fps Video Recording, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD, Video Editor
• Audio: Music Player with DNSe & SRS WOW Sound Effect, Find Music, 3.5 Ear Jack, FM Radio/Recording, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, MIDI, SP-MIDI, i-melody, WAV, MMF, XMF, OMA DRM v2.1, WMDRM, DivX VOD
• Dolfin Browser
• WAP 2.0
• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
• Share Pix and Mobile Widgets
• A-GPS, On Board Navigation (3D Map)
• Bluetooth v2.1
• microUSB 2.0
• Wi-Fi
• 2GB/8GB internal memory
• MicroSD slot (Up to 16GB)
• Battery: 1,100 mAh – Talk time : 2G/492 minutes, 3G/300 minutes / Standby : 2G/422 hours, 3G/406 hours
• Size: 108.8 x 53.5 x 11.9 mm

Haven’t heard about Samsung S8000 before? Well you need to check this phone out since it is quite a nice phone… Here is the leaked info about the new Samsung S8000 that comes from a Russian site. Although the info is accidentally removed but we have recorded it. Samsung GT-S8000 with Cubic codename, is the 1st AMOLED screen with this high resolution of 480×800 px on its 3.1? 16 M color WVGA.

What behind the name of Cubic? Apparently it may come from the latest generation of TouchWiz User Interface. It presents the cube that enables you to easily navigate via some desktop surfaces such as application shortcuts, widgets, notes, bookmarks and so on.

Continue reading ‘Samsung S8000 Cubic Leaked Full Specs and Features’ »