We have some great news for the owners of Samsung S8000 Jet: there is a new firmware update for the Jet bringing lots of goodies for your phone. As it turned out it’s been a while since it first showed up but most probably many of you (we as well) have missed it.

So much has been changed thanks to the S8000XEII2 firmware! The Samsung S8000 Jet now has a a different 3D Cube background as well as some new widgets (Twitter, MySpace and Facebook). The TouchWiz UI is similar to the one we’ve seen in Samsung M8910 Pixon12: you can rearrange the main menu icons.

According to some Jet owners who have already tried out the new firmware (thanks, Andrew!), the phone now feels much zippier. The WebKit-based Dolphin web browser has also been improved and so has been the media browser. Thumbnails are now loaded much faster and scrolling speed is increased, however, viewing images is a bit slower (opening an image takes a second or two more).

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It seems that Samsung will enter the mobile app world. This can be seen thru its TouchWiz User Interface that will be available to the developers. This chance, Samsung will work with Google, Yahoo as well as AccuWeather for offering TouchWiz Widgets or rich connected mobile apps to the customers.

So later, we well see the new apps for TouchWiz phones of Samsung come from the developers. The developer will get access to code samples, device emulation, FAQ’s and content for sale submission easily via storefront of Samsung Rich Connected Application.

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