Samsung And Orange Join Hands To Unveil The First Welsh Mobile Phone

Samsung is taking innovative steps to score over other leading brands. Now, they have teamed up with the popular mobile operator,Orange to bring about the first Welsh Mobile Phone in the world. Sporting predictive text in both North Wales and South Wales accent, this handset offers more than 44,000 Welsh words with a complete set of dialects in the list. Samsung S5600 Mobile Phone is the Welsh phone, and is to be “ready for sales” by September 1 2009. Samsung had launched an Irish phone last year, and the success tempted Sammy to fire out a Welsh adventure.

Since the phone language isWelsh, even the menu settings are displayed in the same. While unveiling this mobile phone, Heritage Minister Mr.Alun Ffred Jones appreciated that both the organisations are responding to the users’ demands. Available in three different flavours (white, black and purple), most of the people in Wales are happy about a mobile phone in their mother tongue.

“It will be of great help for people who do lot of conversing in Welsh”, says a S4C presenter named Alex Jones. He added that the Welsh phone rectifies lot of issues faced by the text-o-maniacs in Wales while messaging in the English-only phones. Mei Huws, the chairman of Welsh Language Board commented this move as a big step for both Welsh and mobile phones. It is reported that a major slice of the market are waiting for the launch of this handset.

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Samsung S5600 Mobile Phone aka Samsung Blade Mobile Phone is an exciting multimedia device with 2.8 inch QVGA touch screen display. TouchWiz UI is also an added attraction in this phone. Slim and compact, this device measures about 103 x 55 x 13 mm; however 173 grams weight is quite heavy, isn’t it? Gesture Lock helps the users to lock/unlock the phone by drawing a letter in the display. Accelerometer is of great help for the auto rotation of the screen. One can even make use of this feature while viewing images. Just a shake will do for viewing the next image; thanks to the gesture control.

Did I tell that this phone sports a 3MP snapper with flash, smile shot and video recording? The multimedia player is good with multi-format support. “FindMusic” service helps to pick your favourite track easily. Moreover FM Radio is also included in this gizmo to stay tuned with your favourite RJ. This handset features SMS/MMS with T9 text function as well as e-mail facilities. A complete set of widgets makes it user friendly as well. This quad band phone offers all major network connectivity features like GPRS, EDGE, 3G, etc. and also offers excellent mobile browsing experience with 7.2Mbps HSDPA connection. Micro USB slot and A2DP Bluetooth are added attraction of this phone.

Samsung Blade Welsh Mobile Phone is available for free with a 24 month contract with Orange. One can also grab this device in a PAYG scheme.