Samsung Mobile has announced the launch of a nationwide contest to find India's fastest SMSer. The Delhi leg of the competition will be held from February 9 to 12, 2005 at the Mobile Expo 2005 to be held at Pragati Maidan.
The message to be typed -- a Guinness World Records standard text -- for the competition is: The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.
This SMS has to be typed on the cellphone keypad, complete with punctuation marks and lower and upper case. No predictive text (T9 Dictionary), QWERTY keyboards or any other keyboards are allowed.
According to the Guinness World Records, Britain's James Trusler typed this text of 160 characters on his mobile phone in 1 minute 7 seconds at Sydney in 2003. This record was broken in 2004 by a 23-year-old Singaporean woman Kimberly Yeo, who thumbed the 26 words message in 43.24 seconds into her phone.
Interested participants in the National Capital Region of Delhi should register on the Samsung Fun Club Web site - http://in.samsungmobile.com/.
The competition will be held at the Samsung Mobile Stall at the Mobile Expo 2005, Hall Number 14, Pragati Maidan from February 9 to 12.
Samsung India is a leading provider of high tech information technology, telecom, consumer electronics & home appliances products in India.
Samsung Electronics Co is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2004 parent company sales of $55.2 billion and profit of $10.3 billion.
It employs 123,000 people at its 93 offices in 48 countries.
