Samsung unveil the Jet and boy is it quick!

For those of you with your fingers on the mobile industries pulse, you may have been aware of the recent Samsung unpacked event that was taking place. The premise was that in the run up to the main event held last week, 5 individuals, who entered the competition, would take it in turns to open a layer of the box containing the upcoming Samsung mobile phone, ala pass the parcel. The 6th entrant and winner of the Samsung unpacked competition was given the distinct honour of unboxing the new phone and unveiling to the world the Samsung Jet.

So what exactly was it that the lucky winner Simon Thompson (who also bagged himself $5000) unpacked and presented to the world? Well the Samsung Jet, also going under the model number S8000, is a touchscreen mobile phone that that, like it’s namesake, boasts some serious speed. The Jet features an 800MHz processor allowing for a fast and responsive user experience, capable of running multiple applications and impressively managing to keep power consumption to a minimum to improve battery life. Going back to that processor, to put things into perspective, the new Apple iPhone 3GS (a seriously speedy piece of kit in its own right) uses a 600MHz processor so the Jet promises to raise the bar even further.

Samsung also feel that the S8000 Jet’s screen is worth shouting about. Sporting a 3.1 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, Samsung claim that the AMOLED technology boasts top-quality colour reproduction and brightness that is far superior to that of TFT LCD displays (the most commonly used mobile phone display). What’s more, AMOLED displays are thinner as they emit their own light rather than having to include a back light making for a thinner phone and again improving battery life. With all the battery life Samsung claim you’ll be saving the Jet could run for weeks (ok not weeks, but should be impressive). The aforementioned beast of a processor should also compliment the touchscreen nicely helping to improve responsiveness.

Ok, so it’s quick and it looks nice, but what else can it do? Well, the Jet features 5.0 Megapixel camera with autofocus and a flash and comes loaded with extras such as face, smile and blink detection and Geo-tagging. Video recording is handled with similar aplomb coming in at D1 resolution (720 x 480) at 30 frames per second which promises DVD-Like video recording. Away from the camera, the Jet covers pretty much every base in the connectivity department thanks to HSDPA and Wi-Fi, plus an internal GPS receiver supporting A-GPS. We also find a music and video player supporting all the usual suspects such as MP3, AAC, WAV and big names in the video play back world such as DivX and Xvid. 2GB of internal memory won’t trouble the iPhone 3GS or the N97 but should provide enough storage space to keep users going and the option to expand the memory with a memory card a further 16GB also compensates.

The appearance of the Samsung Jet does raise a couple of questions. It seems odd that the huge processing power was reserved for a non smart phone when the recently released Samsung i8910 HD seemed like a perfect match for such processing power. The 5.0 Megapixel camera also looks distinctly average in today’s market considering Samsung themselves have released no fewer than four 8.0 Megapixel camera phones. But then a counter argument to that would be that more Megapixels don’t make for better photos.

Regardless, if Samsung can improve on the hugely impressive display found on the i8910 HD and the processor is all it’s cracked up to be, the Jet could really take the wind out of the newly released iPhone 3GS’ sails. Set to launch towards the end of July, click here to register for updates.

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[Source: The UK Mobile Phone Blog]