February 7, 2005
Samsung Mobile hunts for fastest SMSer
Samsung Mobile on Monday announced the launch of a nationwide contest to find India's fastest SMSer, reports The Economic Times.
"The Delhi leg of the competition will be held from 9 th to 12 th February, 2005 at the Mobile Expo 2005 to be held in Pragati Maidan.
The message to be typed, a Guinness World Records standard text, reads as follows. “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"
Interested participants in the NCR should register on the Samsung Fun Club Samsung Fun Club website.
Related competitions:
-- South African Wireless Operator Cell C launches The Fastest Fingers Competition - A search for the fastest SMS typed on a mobile phone, and ran during youth television series Backstage on eTV at 6.30pm, between 6 and 10 December, 2004.
-- SMS speed record sets Guinness World Record - A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a cellphone on June 28, 2004.
-- Txt chmpn - James Trusler, 30, from Shoreham, West Sussex, beat his previous world text messaging record by nearly a minute. James has been confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002
-- Lindsay's fleet fingers win texting title - A 16-year-old girl from Wigan is the UK's fastest texter (November 28, 2001)
Illustration from the BBC
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