Samsung has doffed the covers off its latest offering, the Samsung Vibrant, a part of the Samsung Galaxy S Series. The company today announced that the new smartphone would be available through T-Mobile USA. The handset comes with pre-installed applications and other content to enhance its comprehensive multimedia capabilities and offer the user an integrated device that satisfies all entertainment and communication needs. It plays the role of a TV, gaming system, radio, bookshelf, movie library, , ensuring a complete device on the go.
Samsung has packed in its latest device with the vibrancy of all possible fields. The smartphone is equipped with exclusive entertainment attributes incorporating the famous James Cameron’s Avatar on a 2GB external memory card that comes with the device. The handset also sports an exclusive collector’s edition of an extremely popular game.
“The Samsung Vibrant contains all of the premium core features that the Galaxy S portfolio offers to consumers, including an industry leading display and powerful processor. The Galaxy S devices make the smartphone brilliant,” asserts Omar Khan, chief strategy officer for Samsung Mobile. “When you combine the Vibrant’s incredible hardware with preloaded content like ”Avatar,” along with thousands of applications available on the Android Market, the entertainment and customization possibilities are endless.”
The Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display that provides a stunning, sharp color HD-like viewing experience, augmenting their gaming, movie viewing, or e-book experience. The slim and sleek Vibrant touts on being a highly portable and accessible mobile entertainment handset presented to the U.S. consumers. The smartphone is enhanced with a 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird application processor and a six-axis sensor customized for media and gaming, endowing the user with a never-ending, immersive experience as they read, watch and play. It is also the most recent smartphone in T-Mobile’s array that will be leveraging T-Mobile’s super-fast HSPA+ network, which is accessible in select areas.
“By combining best-selling, award-winning content and amazing hardware that brings that content to life, T-Mobile continues to deliver on its commitment to bring innovative mobile entertainment experiences to consumers’ fingertips,” remarks Paul Cole, vice president, devices and accessories, T-Mobile USA. “We are proud to introduce the Samsung Vibrant as the latest addition to our growing lineup of Android-powered devices.”
Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile is also equipped with the Amazon Kindle for Android application. Kindle facilitates direct access to over 600,000 books, consisting of new releases and an immense majority of The New York Times Best Sellers. It also empowers the user to read the first chapter for free, and they can also read reviews and recommendations written by Amazon.com and its customers. Kindle for Android endows its consumers to sync what they are reading with other Kindle devices so that they can start reading from where they stopped on any device.
The handset also has an in-built MobiTV mobile phone application that proffers access to live and on-demand TV in English and Spanish. The application equips over 35 channels of entertainment, sports and news including most admired channels like Disney Channel, ESPN, Bravo, NBC and more. Additionally, MobiTV is offering Vibrant users their initial 30 days of service free as they avail subscription, after which monthly charges will be applied.
Another application to be pre-loaded on the Vibrant is the Slacker Radio mobile app. The Slacker radio enables the user to listen to personalized radio free of charge. The app provides over 120 genre stations and also endows users to create their own. Slacker is the apt way of checking out new artists or listening to the music that the user loves, as it proffers millions of songs from thousands of artists.
The Samsung Media Hub, is a complete library of video and literary content powered by few of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, it is predicted to be available in future. The Gogo Inflight Internet service has packed in an additional benefit to Samsung Vibrant’s consumers. It is going to offer a bonus of a month of free in-flight Wi-Fi access on their device. The company offers internet access on more than 3,000 daily flights and is progressing every day in the continental U.S.
The Android 2.1 powered Vibrant proffers a seven-paned homescreen. It also facilitates access to Android Market so that users can individualize the handset with 65,000 applications, consisting of applications for gaming, social networking, travel and more. Samsung’s Social Hub service helps users to effortlessly stay in touch with friends and family via integrated contacts, calendars, social networking sites and group messaging. It even enables the user to “reply all” for at least 10 contacts. The device supports English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian and Korean. The smartphone equips facilities like GPS functionality. Thus, the device can access turn-by-turn navigation and Swype text input to offer quick, accurate communication.
The Samsung Vibrant comes loaded with a 5-megapixel camera enabled with digital zoom and autofocus. It also carries the video camera function to offer the user crystal-clear HD recording of videos and photos for playback on an HD television. The handset supports up to 32GB of external memory, thus providing its users with lots of space to hold their entertainment favorites. Samsung enables its users to personalize their handset with two battery cover options in vibrant Dark Blue and Lavender that come packed exclusively with the T-Mobile device.
The Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile packed in with its exclusive pre-loaded entertainment content is anticipated to be available from July 21. It is expected that users can pre-order the smartphone beginning July 1, from any one of the over 4,000 RadioShack stores or book the device online at radioshack.com/vibrant. They can also fix an appointment to pick up and activate their handsets at RadioShack stores with predicted availability commencing from July 21.