India's Fastest Smser! Will It Be You?

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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.

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and what is the reward?

[chandramauli 0]

Indian SMS King brks wrld recrd

And da winna is ........ karan Sachdevaaaah !!!

INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 05:09:23 PM ]

NEW DELHI: Behind every successful man, it is said, there is a woman. But in the case of Karan Sachdev there are a lot of them.

Thanks to the crowd of girlfriends, the overactive Delhi college student is Capital’s champion in an unusual sport: SMSing or Mobile texting.

Karan, a second year B Com student of Delhi University, became the Indian SMS king, by punching a confusing message of 160 characters in 66 seconds in a tense competition in the Capital on Saturday.

His entry into the record books was loaded with dramatic moments, and a tense competition with over 1500 wanna-be SMS kings.

Popular among friends for his speed and his SMSing capacity, Karan was informed about the contest by a close friend.

Karan landed at the Mobile Expo 2005 held at New Delhi’s sprawling exhibition ground, Pragati Maidan, for ‘Fastest Fingers First’ contest organised by Samsung Mobile on Saturday along with 1500 others.

Karan finally emerged successfully after several rounds of competition that concluded with the final where 10 contestants sat in a cabin, away from the crowds, typing out the message.

The message, a Guinness World Records standard text – for the competition was: “ 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 had to be typed on a C-200 Samsung model.

The competition that began with the Delhi round will come to an end after touring five states.

Karan would compete with the champions from the other five states to be country’s SMS King.

When the organisers started their search from the Capital, little did they know that the first search itself would give them a record breaker.

“We received an amazing response to this competition. Karan was a surprise,” said one of the organisers, pointing out that another contestant was an expected winner.

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Edited February 14, 2005 by chandramauli

[deepu 0]

Wow!!!....