Samsung has launched the company’s latest 4G smartphone in the J-series – Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) at a price tag of Rs. 8,990. It comes in Black, White and Gold colours and it is available exclusively on Snapdeal starting today. It also comes with double data offer for Vodafone 4G customers for 6 months & 2 months for 3G customers on data packs of 1GB and above. In addition to this, users who purchase smartphone will get 1500 credits of FreeCharge, which can be used to pay bill, recharges & shopping on Snapdeal. The main highlight of the smartphone is that it comes with new S Bike mode for bikers which lets them activate pre-recorded message for callers, motion lock feature to ensure rider comes to a halt before answering, urgent calls filter and more just by active the mode by tapping on the NFC tag. It also has Ultra Data Saving (UDS) mode powered by Opera Max which compresses cellular data across all contents.
Commenting on the announcement, Mr Asim Warsi. Senior Vice President, Samsung India Electronics, said:
“Samsung is constantly in the pursuit of meaningful innovations that make people’s lives better. S bike mode is a result of that vision. While studying the consumers’ phone usage behaviour, we realised that incoming calls are a major distraction to bikers. We are very happy that we have come up with something that will benefit millions of two-wheeler users and promote responsible riding.”
Mr. Dipesh Shah, Senior Vice President, Samsung R&D Institute India, said:
“Innovation at Samsung revolves around the consumer as we aspire to bring a complete hardware and software solution. Samsung Galaxy J3 is the first affordable segment device that has been equipped with NFC hardware to activate the S bike mode with a single tap of the device on a S bike NFC tag that will be shipped with every unit. The revolutionary S bike mode has been designed in India by our engineers to not only propagate responsible riding which is a concern for both consumers and government authorities, but also ensure a tension free ride.”
On the specifications front, it features 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and it is powered by 1.5GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC9830 64-bit processor which is paired with Mali-400 GPU & 1.5GB RAM. It runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system and it has 8GB in-built memory which can be expanded further up to 128GB via microSD card.
On the imaging front, it features 8MP auto-focus rear-camera with LED flash and 5MP front-facing camera for selfie & video-calling.
It has dual-SIM support and connectivity features like 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, NFC, USB OTG.
It packs 2600mAh battery.
