MOBILE PHONES

Texting from the Sky with Samsung Mobile

Samsung Mobile, a mobile phone distributor in the U.S., attempted to establish the Guinness World Record for "Fastest Text Messaging While Skydiving." A team of professional skydivers text messaged while freefalling from 12,000 feet outside the Los Angeles city limits at the Samsung Mobile XTREME TEXTING event. 

The team of 10 skydivers used a variety of Samsung Mobile messaging phones during this challenge, including the Samsung Propel, Samsung Gravity, Samsung Rant, Samsung Alias, and Samsung Messager.

In a similar event hosted by LG Electronics in July, Nathan Schwartz defeated over 15,000 others to win the LG National Texting Competition in the US. On July 9, LG Electronics had invited some fastest texters from all over the country to New York City for the competition that was held second year in a row. 

Now, Samsung has created XTREME TEXTING a way to promote its new line-up of text messaging phones. 

The skydivers had to accurately text message the phrase: "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."  

They had only one minute to text message the phrase while freefalling before pulling their parachutes and gliding to the ground. 

Once all 10 skydivers were safe on the ground and their phones were checked for accuracy, the video shot by two aerial videographers and two additional videographers on the ground was sent to Guinness World Records in London for official judging. 

"Fastest Text Messaging While Skydiving" will be a new entry into Guinness World Records database if successfully attempted, says Samsung. It will join the current record for "Fastest Text Message" currently held by Jeremy Sng Gim (Singapore), who typed the prescribed 160-character phrase on his mobile phone in 41.40 seconds on February 24, 2008.

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