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Verizon Wireless Announces the Samsung Fascinate(TM), a Galaxy S(TM) Smartphone
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and DALLAS, June 28 -- Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network, and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the number 1 mobile phone provider in the United States(1), today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Fascinate(TM), a Galaxy S(TM) smartphone.
Powered by Android 2.1(TM), the Fascinate is equipped with support for Google Mobile Services, including, Gmail(TM), YouTube(TM), Android Market(TM) and more. Additionally, the Fascinate boasts a brilliant four-inch Super AMOLED touch screen display, Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application Processor, and an integrated entertainment, multimedia, messaging and social networking experience.
Color: Mirror Black with chrome details
Key features and specifications:
-- Android 2.1 platform - With support for Google Mobile Services
including Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk and Android Market
-- Full HTML Web browsing capabilities
-- Preloaded with Bing Maps and Bing Search
-- 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities - Allows customers to transform their
phone into a wireless modem for up to five compatible Wi-Fi-enabled
devices
-- Super AMOLED Screen Technology - Brilliant display makes watching
movies, viewing videos and playing games come to life like never
before, even in bright light and outdoor environments
-- Advanced touch screen gestures capabilities, including multi-touch
pinch to zoom, double tap to zoom and horizontal swiping, which
provides easier and quicker access to many applications, including
location-based services, Web browsing and digital photos or videos
-- Multiple file formats supported, including DivX support
-- Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application Processor - Produces
amazing graphics, faster upload and download times and HD-like
multimedia content
-- Six-axis sensor that works with the smartphone's accelerometer to
provide a smooth, fluid gaming experience when the user is tilting the
device up or down or panning the phone to the left or right
-- Virtual QWERTY Keyboard Featuring Swype Technology - Input text faster
and in a more intuitive way with one continuous finger motion across
the screen keyboard
-- Full suite of messaging options - Text, picture, video and voice
messaging; corporate and personal e-mail accounts supported
-- 5.0-megapixel camera/camcorder - Auto-focus and LED flash with HD
video recording and playback (720p) capabilities to capture photos and
videos for playback on your HD television
-- WiFi Connectivity (802.11 b/g/n)
-- Stereo Bluetooth® Technology - Support for headset, hands-free,
stereo, phonebook access, object push for vCard and vCalendar
-- Corporate Email - Supports Android Eclair Exchange ActiveSync e-mail
to synchronize corporate e-mail, contacts and calendars from office
e-mail accounts
-- Music and video players and 3.5-millimeter headphone jack
-- 2GB internal memory expandable to 32GB, 16GB microSD(TM) included with
handset
Lifestyle features:
-- V CAST Music with Rhapsody®, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID,
Visual Voice Mail, V CAST Tones, VZ Navigator® and Mobile IM , City ID
-- Samsung's Social Hub - Built around messaging, contacts and calendar
sync, which allows users to send and receive information, whether it
is e-mail, social network updates or SMS messages
-- Integrated Calendar information from portal calendars, on
Exchange, Google Calendar(TM) and social networking services
(SNS), including Facebook®
-- Integrated Contacts syncs with Exchange, Google, Twitter and
Facebook® and displays a user's contacts in four categories
including Information, History (previous calls and messages),
Activities (status updates and notifications on social networking
sites) and Media (Facebook profile photos and photo gallery)
-- Feeds & Updates - Displays feeds from multiple SNS sites such as
Facebook®, MySpace and Twitter, which also allows users to update
their status instantly
-- AllShare Application - Enables inter-device connectivity through
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), so users can send multimedia
content wirelessly to other DLNA-enabled devices such as TVs and
laptops
-- Daily Briefing - Instant access to weather, news, stocks and schedule
-- Write and Go - Quickly jot down an idea and later decide on a format,
such as SMS/ MMS, e-mail, calendar or memo, to send or post to popular
SNS sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
-- Weather Clock - Displays current time and weather of the selected city
(ability to add and select other cities)
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 91 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ)(NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD). For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
About Samsung Telecommunications America
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets and telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit http://www.samsungwireless.com.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2009 consolidated sales of US$116.8 billion. Employing approximately 188,000 people in 185 offices across 65 countries, the company consists of eight independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Semiconductor and LCD. 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 http://www.samsung.com.
(1) Number one mobile phone provider in the U.S. claim for Samsung Mobile based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics Q1 2010, Q1-Q4 2009 and Q3 and Q4 2008 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipments Reports.
Android, Google, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Android Market are trademarks of Google Inc.
Source: Verizon Wireless
CONTACT: Brenda Boyd Raney, Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7518,
Brenda.Raney@verizonwireless.com; or Makenzie Blythe, MWW Group for Samsung
Mobile, +1-214-414-3331, mblythe@mww.com
Web Site: http://www.verizonwireless.com/
Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/094251.html
Verizon Wireless Announces the Samsung Fascinate(TM), a Galaxy S(TM) Smartphone
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and DALLAS, June 28 -- Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network, and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the number 1 mobile phone provider in the United States(1), today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Fascinate(TM), a Galaxy S(TM) smartphone.
Powered by Android 2.1(TM), the Fascinate is equipped with support for Google Mobile Services, including, Gmail(TM), YouTube(TM), Android Market(TM) and more. Additionally, the Fascinate boasts a brilliant four-inch Super AMOLED touch screen display, Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application Processor, and an integrated entertainment, multimedia, messaging and social networking experience.
Color: Mirror Black with chrome details
Key features and specifications:
-- Android 2.1 platform - With support for Google Mobile Services
including Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk and Android Market
-- Full HTML Web browsing capabilities
-- Preloaded with Bing Maps and Bing Search
-- 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities - Allows customers to transform their
phone into a wireless modem for up to five compatible Wi-Fi-enabled
devices
-- Super AMOLED Screen Technology - Brilliant display makes watching
movies, viewing videos and playing games come to life like never
before, even in bright light and outdoor environments
-- Advanced touch screen gestures capabilities, including multi-touch
pinch to zoom, double tap to zoom and horizontal swiping, which
provides easier and quicker access to many applications, including
location-based services, Web browsing and digital photos or videos
-- Multiple file formats supported, including DivX support
-- Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application Processor - Produces
amazing graphics, faster upload and download times and HD-like
multimedia content
-- Six-axis sensor that works with the smartphone's accelerometer to
provide a smooth, fluid gaming experience when the user is tilting the
device up or down or panning the phone to the left or right
-- Virtual QWERTY Keyboard Featuring Swype Technology - Input text faster
and in a more intuitive way with one continuous finger motion across
the screen keyboard
-- Full suite of messaging options - Text, picture, video and voice
messaging; corporate and personal e-mail accounts supported
-- 5.0-megapixel camera/camcorder - Auto-focus and LED flash with HD
video recording and playback (720p) capabilities to capture photos and
videos for playback on your HD television
-- WiFi Connectivity (802.11 b/g/n)
-- Stereo Bluetooth® Technology - Support for headset, hands-free,
stereo, phonebook access, object push for vCard and vCalendar
-- Corporate Email - Supports Android Eclair Exchange ActiveSync e-mail
to synchronize corporate e-mail, contacts and calendars from office
e-mail accounts
-- Music and video players and 3.5-millimeter headphone jack
-- 2GB internal memory expandable to 32GB, 16GB microSD(TM) included with
handset
Lifestyle features:
-- V CAST Music with Rhapsody®, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID,
Visual Voice Mail, V CAST Tones, VZ Navigator® and Mobile IM , City ID
-- Samsung's Social Hub - Built around messaging, contacts and calendar
sync, which allows users to send and receive information, whether it
is e-mail, social network updates or SMS messages
-- Integrated Calendar information from portal calendars, on
Exchange, Google Calendar(TM) and social networking services
(SNS), including Facebook®
-- Integrated Contacts syncs with Exchange, Google, Twitter and
Facebook® and displays a user's contacts in four categories
including Information, History (previous calls and messages),
Activities (status updates and notifications on social networking
sites) and Media (Facebook profile photos and photo gallery)
-- Feeds & Updates - Displays feeds from multiple SNS sites such as
Facebook®, MySpace and Twitter, which also allows users to update
their status instantly
-- AllShare Application - Enables inter-device connectivity through
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), so users can send multimedia
content wirelessly to other DLNA-enabled devices such as TVs and
laptops
-- Daily Briefing - Instant access to weather, news, stocks and schedule
-- Write and Go - Quickly jot down an idea and later decide on a format,
such as SMS/ MMS, e-mail, calendar or memo, to send or post to popular
SNS sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
-- Weather Clock - Displays current time and weather of the selected city
(ability to add and select other cities)
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 91 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ)(NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD). For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
About Samsung Telecommunications America
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets and telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit http://www.samsungwireless.com.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2009 consolidated sales of US$116.8 billion. Employing approximately 188,000 people in 185 offices across 65 countries, the company consists of eight independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Semiconductor and LCD. 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 http://www.samsung.com.
(1) Number one mobile phone provider in the U.S. claim for Samsung Mobile based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics Q1 2010, Q1-Q4 2009 and Q3 and Q4 2008 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipments Reports.
Android, Google, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Android Market are trademarks of Google Inc.
Source: Verizon Wireless
CONTACT: Brenda Boyd Raney, Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7518,
Brenda.Raney@verizonwireless.com; or Makenzie Blythe, MWW Group for Samsung
Mobile, +1-214-414-3331, mblythe@mww.com
Web Site: http://www.verizonwireless.com/
Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/094251.html