Turkey's First Domestic High-Tech Smart Phone, the Turkcell T40

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Turkcell had announced that it was taking the step towards developing a smart phone for the first time in February at the World Mobile Congress held in Barcelona . The smart phone, which was given the code name "Gebze", came into production phase within 6 months after completing all design and software developments. The Turkcell T40 was developed at Turkcell's R&D base , and draws attention for its distinguished features and design. With its superior HD audio quality, the Turkcell T40 also provides better sound quality for multimedia applications, and features an advanced camera that turns experiences into impressive photos and videos. The interface designed specifically for the T40 promises to simplify the day to day lives of its users.

said, "People's trust in the Turkcell brand has once more become apparent with the interest that has been shown to the T-series phones, which were named after our company. The T-series journey began with a vision of equal of opportunities to mobile internet, and since then, Turkcell has sold nearly smart phones, thereby contributing to the economy. Now we are taking this goal even further with Turkey's first Smart phone developed by Turkish engineers. With a special interface designed according to the habits of Turkish users, and a price that gives everyone the ability to access Turkcell's rich mobile application world, users will be one step ahead, and able to reach information anywhere at any time. Looking at the first six months of 2013, compared to the same period of last year we see an increase of 7%, to 6.2 million mobile phones being imported. In the first half of 2013 there was also an increase of 11% in the number of mobile phones that are brought in from abroad by travelers. With a large part of these imported phones being smart phones, our aim should be to ease the burden on the current account deficit. Today, Turkey has one of the world's best mobile communications infrastructures. As the number of mobile Internet users' increases, the preference towards smart phones will increase. We should be able to develop high-tech smart phones with our local and human resources. Our aim with the Turkcell T40 is to encourage others in the sector to also develop a local smart phone, thereby contributing to the Turkish economy. I would like to thank all those who have taken part, and I sincerely wish that the T40 brings even further success for Turkcell."

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Turkcell Technology:

Turkcell Technology develops Turkcell branded smart phones, mobile apps, mobile internet services, billing, pricing and collection systems, customer relations and channel management, mobile marketing, business intelligence solutions, SIM services, mobile financial services, roaming solutions, machine to machine (M2M) platforms and solutions, as well as value added telecom services and products.

Turkcell Technology holds a great number of patents serving to facilitate and enrich the lives of its users. And naturally, the success of these products and services developed in-house is further elevated by the awards won on international platforms. Turkcell was recently granted two separate awards in the Bilisim Top 500 rankings this year. The first was in the Mobile Applications, and the second in the Turkey -based Developer Software Category.

ABOUT TURKCELL

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Email: nihat.narin@turkcell.com.tr
           

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