Samsung Moment, Exclusively from Sprint

Sprint and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)1, the No. 1 mobile headphone supplier in the United States2, today announced that Samsung Moment™ will exhibit a mobile phone demonstration of the North American mobile digital TV broadcast medium standard during International CES 2010 in Las Vegas on Jan 7 – 10, 2010. Samsung Moment, exclusively from Sprint, will receive live digital TV exploitation Samsung’s Mobile River DTV Chip, the world’s first base single-chip solution for the recently approved Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Mobile River Digital TV standard. The ATSC Mobile River Digital TV chip volition allow Samsung Moment to receive live TV programming from topical anesthetic program stations, including prime-meter meshing programs, local news and sports and parking brake alerts.

The companies also announced that the Mobile DTV-equipped Samsung Moment was selected for a showcase with Sprint customers in the Capitol, D.C. and Baltimore markets during the first poop of 2010 — this is the first-ever consumer showcase of this engineering. Moment was selected because of its 3.2-inch AMOLED exhibit screen, which delivers Saratoga chip colors, bright pictures outdoors, and wide wake angles. Samsung was the co-developer of the ATSC criterion that is devising mobile digital TV broadcasting possible on mobile phones, laptops, USB drives and other mobile devices. Samsung’s single-chipping implementation of the standard—the world’s first—enables reception at lower berth might, size and cost than previous multi-chipping solutions which separate the tuning and decryption functions between two or more chips.

“The selection of Samsung Moment as the first test French telephone for mobile digital TV in the U.S. is an enormous honour for Samsung Mobile River,” said Omar Khan, honcho strategy officer for Samsung Mobile River. “It is incredibly rewarding to see one of Samsung Mobile’s flagship devices be integrated with the Samsung ATSC Mobile DTV chipping that’s giving the power and potential drop of free people, live mobile digital TV to our U.S. customers.”

“Samsung Moment is already a customer favourite with its integrated and innovative Android™ platforms so we are very excited to be able to offer it with the Samsung’s Mobile River Digital TV chipping to customers in the Washington and Baltimore areas,” said Fared Adib, Sprint vice president of merchandise development. “It is truly an amazing experience to vigil local and network television on Moment with the benefit of its moral force screen. This test is a great opportunity for Sprint customers.”

“We are delighted to include the Samsung Moment as a key gimmick to be used by Sprint customers during the Consumer Showcase in Washington DC this saltation. Mobile River DTV engineering will allow DC expanse consumers to watch their favourite live programs with instantaneous approach to local newsworthiness, weather, parking brake selective information, and of course their favourite amusement programs broadcasted by octonary local TV stations,” said Brandon Burgess CEO of ION Media Networks and President of the Open Mobile River Video Coalition (OMVC).

The OMVC is actively promoting mobile digital television system engineering within the U.S. broadcast industry to achieve widespread marketplace incursion in 2010.

Samsung Moment, without the Mobile River DTV chip, originally launched in Nov 2009 as Samsung’s first U.S. French telephone integrating the surface and innovative Android™ platforms with the high-speeding connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network3 (EVDO Rev. A.) and ace of the best values in wireless with Any Mobile River, AnytimeSM career lineament, available on Everything plans with information.

Samsung Moment represents a new generation of portable Net approach devices and provides approach to built-in Google™ mobile services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™ and YouTube™, as wellspring as thousands of applications available in Android Market™. Moment is powered by an 800 MHz C.P.U., devising this device ace of the fastest wireless phones available today. Moment is also designed with a full QWERTY keyboard for fasting and easy messaging and electronic mail entry.

Customers can purchase Samsung Moment without Mobile DTV capabilities through all Sprint channels including Web (www.sprint.com), Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and our subject retail partners. Retail pricing is currently $179.99 (excluding taxes) after a $50 instant nest egg and a $100 mail-in-rabbet with a two-class overhaul agreement.

As charter members of the Open Handset Alliance™, Sprint and Samsung are closely aligned with the Android community. Through Android Market, Samsung Moment users can download more than 20,000 applications, widgets and games on their headphone. Pandora®, ShopSavvyTM, TwitterTM, ShazamTM, amazon.com®, U. S. Army Today®, Flixster®, PacManTM, CraigslistCheckerTM, and MySpaceTM Mobile are among the countless wellspring-liked applications already available on Android Market. Additionally, customers can access Sprint Navigation and Sprint exclusive applications NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup MobileSM already preinstalled on the device. Samsung Moment is a perfect tense solution for anyone who wants the exemption to halt connected on the go and enjoy a PC-like experience.