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To: Charles Broderick who wrote (2976)	3/30/1999 8:56:00 AM
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Samsung unveils world's smallest Internet phone By Jae-Hee Lee SEOUL, March 30 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics <05930.KS> on Tuesday unveiled what it called the world's smallest Internet cellular phone, capable of accessing and displaying information from the Internet. Weighing 158 grams (5.5 oz), the "smart phone" has a 30mm x 70mm (1.1 inch to 2.7 inch) touch screen panel, which offers "touch mail" capability to send text messages and pictures. "Using wireless data service, the smart phone is a product where people can get information wherever and whenever they want," said Jeung Soon-hyo, principal engineer at Samsung Electronic's Multimedia Lab. "This is the world's smallest and lightest phone using CDMA (code division multiple access) technology," he said at a news conference to introduce the product. The Internet phone was developed to stimulate slumping sales in Korea due to market saturation, Samsung officials said. Samsung expects 18.5 million Koreans, more than a third of the population, will own cellular phones by the end of this year. Its primary target market is young people in their 20s and 30s. A standard Internet protocol is built in so the phone can access the Internet without having to first be connected with a notebook PC. It can handle 2,000 stored addresses, schedules for up to one year and as many as 100 memos at a time. There are English-Korean, Korean-English dictionaries and an engineering calculator that does trigonometry, exponential functions and statistics. The phone also features a Bible, hymnal, Buddhist Canon and songbook as well as electronic games. Samsung officials said the price has not been fixed yet but expect it would cost 100,000 to 150,000 won ($82-$123) more than Samsung's current cellular phones. Samsung aims to sell about 100 million Internet phones in Korea and abroad this year, when the phones begin sales in April. In 1998, Samsung had a 3.7 percent share of the world market, selling 7.4 million wireless mobile phones at home and abroad. Samsung Electronics also displayed another of its inventions, the "watch phone." Combining a wristwatch and a phone, it has been immediately dubbed the "007 phone" because of its similarity to one James Bond used in the movie "Golden Eyes." "Japan made a watch phone similar to this but didn't succeed in commercialising," Jeung said. "Samsung's watch phone is the world's first to be commercialised and will begin sales in April."