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The Apple iPhone success reached its third year and yet no manufacturer reached the same success with any of their products. To do so, Samsung reevaluated its marketing approach. The iPhone owners are active people who look for great products with certain "it" factor. Therefore Samsung launched a new line on the market, the Jet line. The first product to be released in this new line is a junior model in this range, the Samsung S8000. The Samsung S800 Jet sure knows good timing and promises a little bit of everything: entertainment, style and easy handling. As far as functionality goes, the Samsung S8000 Jet is equipped with an 800 MHz CPU, an upgraded interface, advanced animation effects and exceptional specs.

The S8000 Jet has a great 5 MP camera with D1 recording, Wi-Fi, GPS. The main disadvantages of this phone are the under the cover back micro SD slot and no preinstalled GPS navigation software. Samsung stated that the phone's processor can work with applications directly and enjoy parallel architecture. Indeed the Samsung S8000 Jet comes with a Qualcomm MSM 6246 with 800 MHz frequency processor and 512 MB of random access memory. Although this device is not considered to be a smart phone, it's faster and more powerful than any other smartphone on the market (although it is not a smartphone, the iPhone 3GS has only 128 MB of RAM).

The Samsung S8000 Jet sports a full Flash support, DivX and XviD video codecs and great music package. The dimensions of this phone are rather common for a touch screen device. With a height of 108.8 mm, wide of 53.5 mm, deep of 11.9 mm it weight about 110 g. This weight is small because the S8000 case is made entirely out of plastic. Therefore when you will hold the S8000 it will feel strange. The Samsung S8000 Jet plays in a semi-luxury line; therefore a full plastic case is not a good feature. Even so the phone feels solid. The battery cover is a fingerprint magnet, while the phone's display cover has a special coating (like the one in the Apple iPhone 3 GS).

The edge is bordered with a strip of glossy black plastic (what else); this is the only thing that separates the S8000 Jet's design from the other Samsung phones. There are not many buttons on this phone, the start - end call keys and the return key under the display, on the left there are the volume controls, while on the right side there is the display lock switch, camera shutter key and cube activation button, for activating the Motion Gate feature. On the top the phone sports a 3.5 mm jack along with micro USB socket under a plastic flop. The Samsung S8000 Jet is shipped with a AMOLED resistive touch screen with up to 16 million colors and a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels (WVGA)  and a diagonal of 3.1 inches. The display sports the new improves Touch Wiz v2.0 user interface, accelerometer sensor for auto rotate and Motion user interface and proximity sensor for auto turn off. The Samsung i8910 HD has a bigger screen than S8000 Jet in terms of diagonal but offers a lower resolution. The Samsung Jet's display is very convenient to use with its automatic brightness adjustment. Even so the S8000 Jet display gets washed out under direct sunlight, but is still more readable than TFT displays. Tanks to the AMOLED technology, the Jet's display offers excellent image quality. Just like the Samsung M8910 PIXON 12 display, the S8000 Jet display offers a new technology for the resistive display feature. No more need for a stylus, because the Jet's display accents only finger input. However you will not be able to use the touch screen with a pair of gloves.

The Samsung S8000 Jet uses an 1100 mAh Li - Ion battery, with standby values in the 2G network up to 422 hours, while in the 3G network can reach 406 hours. The talk time is good for an 1100 mAh battery: up to 8 hours and 20 minutes in the 2G network and up to 5 hours in the 3G network. In general this device will stay up and running for about 2 days. It takes about 2 hours to completely charge the battery. Just like the Samsung M8910 PIXON 12, the Samsung S8000 Jet is shipped with the latest version of the Touch Wiz interface. The Samsung Jet has the same home screen layout as the PIXON 12 camera phone. You have three different screens that you can switch by using the special key. You can add as many widgets as you like and assign a different icon for each. You can have both shortcut widgets and application widgets. It is all p to you. Remember that this new improved user interface is fully customizable; therefore you can make your phone (with menu) unique.

The phone runs in both 2G network (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G network (HSDPA 900 / 2100). The connectivity is ensured by GPRS Class 12 (4+1 / 3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, EDGE Class 12, 236.8 kbps, 3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps with HSUPA, WLAN - Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and v2.0 micro USB. The Samsung S8000 Jet is equipped with a 5 MP digital camera, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, and LED flash. It also sports features like geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection. The phone enjoys a landscape camera interface and allows the user to search through all the settings and change some of the photo options.

There are many modes for you to take a picture, single shot, multi shot, panorama shot, smile shot, mosaic, and frame. The image quality is very good with the Samsung S8000 Jet camera. The images have nice contrast, precise colors and proportional details spread in the picture. Remember that Samsung offers the M8800 PIXON and M8910 PIXON 12 for their excellent cameras. Therefore the middle class entertainment phone is sufficiently equipped with this good camera. The Samsung Jet can record D1 (720 x 480) videos at 30 frames per second. However the quality of these videos is not that great. Some features packed in this small device work flawlessly and are good statements for why you should buy this phone. The organizer has an excellent number of useful time managing applications; the Samsung Motion Gate is Samsung own recognition engine. Basically, it allows the user to move around the phone, scroll through tracks in playlists and pause playback by tapping, flipping and shaking the phone.

The phone book, call log or the messaging departments are excellent organized and have all the features needed. The music player was upgraded than the one used on the M8800 PIXON. It sports different icons when browsing your tracks and a new way of displaying album art. It also searches better by filtering in the exact category you are searching, album, genre, tracks or artist. The Samsung S8000 Jet is delivered in two internal memories, 2GB or 8 GB. Samsung succeeds with its first new line entertainment phone. The Samsung S8000 Jet is a good alternative to LG KM900 Arena and maybe, for the not so Apple hard-core fans, customers, iPhone 3GS. Samsung delivers in the S8000 Jet's box, beside the actual device, mandatory charger, micro USB cable, 2GB micro SD, a two piece headset, leather carrying case, and the latest Samsung PC Studio.