Samsung unveils latest products

Samsung unveils latest products

The Jakarta Post , Istanbul, Turkey

South Korea's electronics giant Samsung Electronics
unveiled here on Monday its latest products, as it
expressed its intention to remain a leader in consumer
electronics industry.

The company's vice chairman and CEO Jong-Yong Jun said
Samsung would continue finding new technologies to
meet consumers' need and maintain its status as the
world's leading electronics producer.

"Business entities cannot survive without innovations
as they face numerous changes and uncertainty. Samsung
will continue to create solutions that vitalize and
enrich consumers," Yun told the annual gathering of
Samsung's executives, distributors and vendors from
across the world.

Samsung is a global leader in semiconductor,
telecommunications, flat panel display and digital
convergence technology. In Indonesia, Samsung is well
known for its television products and cellular phones.

The company booked a global sales of US$49.6 billion
and a net profit of $5.9 billion last year.

The products displayed during the Istanbul gathering
include a 70-inch plasma display panel (PDP)
television, a 54-inch TFT-LCD television, DVD-HD931
player, HT-DB760 5.1 surround system, VC-RP30W robot
cleaner, ITCAM-9 hard-disk MPEG4 camcorder, YP-60 Yepp
Sports digital music player, SGH-E700 dual band mobile
phones, X30 notebook PC and CLP-500 color laser
printer.

Lee Kang Hyun, director of PT Samsung Electronics
Indonesia, said he was optimistic that some of the
products, particularly the E700 mobile phone, will
sell well in the Indonesian market.

The E700 cellphone features an integrated camera and
and 40 polyphonic ring tones. Weighing 88 grams, the
new model supports MMS, WAP 2.0 and IrDA. The phone,
which is an update of Samsung's popular model
SGH-E700, is JAVA enabled, allowing users to
experience and enriched multimedia environment.