T-Mobile and Samsung announced their new QWERTY messaging phones Samsung Gravity 3 and Samsung
Gravity T -- and the Samsung 🙂 (Smiley).
The Samsung 🙂, Gravity 3 and Gravity T offer
messaging capabilities and web access. They also have a
new social networking feature
called T-Mobile Social Buzz, which integrates popular social
networking sites into one application. Social
Buzz continues running in the background and alerts when there is an
update.
The Samsung 🙂 has rounded-edge
design, a slide-up vertical QWERTY keyboard and a dedicated shortcut
for quick access to messaging applications, including text, picture,
video and instant messaging, as well as Exchange and personal e-mail
capability. The 🙂 offers an easy-to-use interface, a built-in camera
and camcorder, a music player and support for expandable memory.
Gravity T come with slide-out QWERTY keyboards and a
complete messaging suite, including Exchange and personal e-mail
capability, calendar and contacts. The Gravity 3 has an external T9
keyboard and a slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard, while the Gravity T
features a customizable 2.8-inch touch screen that provides a premium
touch and messaging experience at an affordable price. Both Gravity
phones include a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder, built-in music
player, HTML browser and support for up to 16 GB of expandable memory.
Prices for the Smiley, Gravity 3, and Gravity T are $19.99, $49.99,
and
$74.99 respectively
More and more families are finding that text messaging is one of
the best ways to communicate. In a March 2010 internal survey, close to
70 percent of T-Mobile customers indicated that they had used text
messaging to stay connected at least once within the prior 7 days. Over
the past three years, the average number of text messages T-Mobile
customers have sent and received per quarter has nearly tripled from 262
messages in Q1 2007 to 752 messages in Q3 20092. In 2009, 250 billion
text and picture messages were sent by T-Mobile postpaid subscribers, a
51 percent growth over the 165 billion messages sent over the T-Mobile
network in 2008. The new lineup of Samsung messaging phones help to
answer the call for affordable, easy-to-use phones as text messaging
communication increases among families.