Samsung opens a whole new world of Indian languages for smartphone and tablet users

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has opened a whole new world of Indian languages for Smartphone and tablet users in the country by offering User Interface and access to content to users in nine Indian languages.

The Indian languages will be supported on Galaxy Grand, Galaxy S4 and Tab 3 commencing today. The languages will include Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati. The Company plans to enhance the availability of regional language content to its more affordable Smart phone range starting with Galaxy Star within this month. The number of languages being offered too will be increased.

Especially created for the India market, this unique initiative will enable consumers to access applications from the Samsung Application Store in their favourite language in various categories ranging from entertainment, games, utility, lifestyle, devotional and business. Popular applications like Bharat Matrimony, Ganesh speak, India property, Times of India, BSE and Mydala amongst hundreds of other applications will soon be available in vernacular language for users. Customers can right away get experience in their own language by using Chaton, Facebook, Gmail and Newshunt on select Samsung devices.

At Samsung, we will increase the number of devices that offer regional language content and experience from next month onwards as well as enhance the bouquet of languages for our consumers."

The event witnessed an engaging panel discussion with eminent dignitaries from the industry. Present on the occasion were Kiran Karnik, chairman of the National Committee on Telecom & Broadband at the CII and Member, National Innovation Council; Kevin D'Souza, country growth manager, Facebook and Arvind Pani, co-founder and CEO of Reverie Language Technologies Pvt Ltd.