Samsung Mobile Phone Blog

In this line of work you very quickly come to be wary of gimmicks. All too often phone manufacturers will try and persuade you that they’ve created something new / ground-breaking / never-seen-before, but when it comes down to it, all they’ve done is given you the option to create new emoticons, or have improved the voice clarity 3.7%.

The Samsung Jet , though, with its new version of the TouchWiz User Interface, does actually feel new and fresh. We’ve already mentioned this TouchWiz thing in relation to the other crop of new Samsung phones released recently, but it’s almost as though it makes more sense on the Samsung Jet S8000 than anywhere else. This, most likely, is because the Jet is a fun, mid-range-and-proud-of-it kinda phone, and so the fun yet functional cube-based UI seems to fit perfectly. Basically, all you need imagine is that the entire UI is based around the faces of a cube. Pressing the cool cube button on the bottom of the phone brings up the floating 3D shape, on the face of which are the links to the applications and functions you want to access. Sounds simple? Well, it is. And that’s why it’s so great. Within minutes you’re chopping, changing, flicking and swapping between all the different things the Samsung Jet S8000 does, as though all your fingers have ever desire in life is an interactive cube in their lives…

Not only this, but the phone is an absolute stunner. In fact, there’s currently no mid-range (that’s, smallish touchscreen, at 3.1”, and not of the highest specs out there) phone that looks, feels or even just gives of the impression of being so nice as this thing. The deep gloss finish is slick as can be, there’s a great kaleidoscopic patterning on the back, and it feels absolutely perfectly snug in your hand. There’s currently no release date on this thing, but expect it sometime in the not too distant future. In the meantime, check out this Samsung Jet Review, or feast your eyes on this lovely video: