Hi, Tom Maxwell here for Tech Conclave. Earlier this week, Samsung launched their new Smartphone called the Samsung S8000 Jet. But, is it an iPhone beater?

The phone boasts a fast 800 MHz processor leaving all other smart phones for dust as the average high end smart phone, until now was 600 MHz.

The phone boasts many new features including, Microsoft’s ActiveSync push email for business users, one finger zoom, which is the ability to zoom in and out using only one finger and one hand, 3.1 inch ultra bright display, with a resolution of four times higher than the WQVGA standard. It has a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and an LED flash, auto focus, face detection and geo tagging. It can record video at 30 frames per second at MPEG4 and of course a music player that can just about play any format.

The memory on the Jet is either 2GB or 8GB integrated. You have the option of expanding this up to 16GB via a micro SD card. The Battery life expectancy is about 300 minutes of talk time for 3G and for 2G your going to get around 419 and the standby time is around 400 hours. The phone also comes with a new web browser called “dolphin” which promises to make mobile browsing easier with new features like, multi window browsing, advanced bookmaking and a sophisticated add blocker.

But, is the Samsung Jet an iPhone Beater? Well, in my opinion, despite the advanced specifications, sadly no, because of the Apple App Store allowing iPhone users to make the most of their iPhone.

But as with most things, only time will tell.

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