With Samsung J3 smartphone, riders can simply concentrate on their riding and stop worrying about checking notifications on their phones or answering phone calls while they are in the middle of the road.
Samsung J3 launch: Extending its portfolio of ‘J series’ smartphones, South Korean electronics giant Samsung on Thursday launched its 5-inch Galaxy J3 priced at Rs 8,990 in India – smartphone is available on Snapdeal. The smartphone is targetted at bike riders in mid-price market. The device comes with a faux leather back panel and is available in black, white and gold colours. Samsung has also announced special offers for Vodafone users. They will get twice the data on select internet packs for a period of six months.
Samsung J3 handset has ‘S-bike Mode’ for two-wheeler riders enabling them to ride uninterrupted every time it is turned on. The ‘S-bike Mode’ works in harmony with a NFC-enabled sticker that enables the device to automatically reply to callers informing them that they can “call again later time as the person they are trying to reach is riding a bike”.
With Samsung J3 smartphone, riders can simply concentrate on their riding and stop worrying about checking notifications on their phones or answering phone calls while they are in the middle of the road.
“While studying the consumers’ phone-usage behaviour, we realised that incoming calls are a major distraction to bikers. We are happy that we have come up with something that will benefit millions of two-wheeler riders,” Asim Warsi, senior vice president, Samsung electronics, told reporters here.
To activate the bike mode, the user just needs to ‘tap’ the Samsung J3 smartphone to the NFC-enabled tag which can be stuck on the fuel tank or the helmet.
In case of urgent calls, the caller can press “1” to notify user about the urgency of the call and the rider will get the message of “urgent call” on device’s screen.
With this, Samsung J3 smartphone activates a “motion lock” feature that restricts the rider to pick call while he is driving. As soon as the rider comes to a halt, the phone allows the user to take the call.
“The device has been equipped with NFC hardware to activate the ‘S-bike Mode’ with a single tap on the NFC-enabled tag that will be shipped with every unit. The technology is designed by the engineers in India,” Dipesh Shah, senior vice president, Samsung R&D Institute India, added.
The Samsung Galaxy J3 comes with a 5-inch touchscreen display and is powered by 1.2GHz quad-core processor assisted with 1.5GB of RAM. The phone packs 8GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card.
The dual-SIM (micro-SIM) phone is packed with an 8-megapixel primary camera and a 5-megapixel front shooter for selfies.
The Galaxy J3 runs on Android 5.1 and is powered by a 2,600mAh non removable battery. It measures 142.30 x 71.00 x 7.90 (height x width x thickness) and weighs 138.00 grams.
The J3 will also have Ultra Data Saving (UDS) mode which was launched in September with other J series phones last year, for saving upto 50 percent of data over mobile network and wi-fi.
Source: financialexpress.com