Samsung Unveils Comprehensive, Lifestyle-Focused Galaxy Gifts Package for Next Generation Galaxy S5

Samsung Unveils Comprehensive, Lifestyle-Focused Galaxy Gifts Package

for Next Generation Galaxy S5

New content offering includes a wide collection of premium mobile services and tools designed to enhance the lives of users, free of charge

Samsung Electronics announced its collaboration with 16 of the world’s leading mobile content and service providers to offer Galaxy S5 users more than $600 worth of exclusive, pre-paid and discounted subscriptions. From fitness to news to productivity apps, the Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with meaningful rewards, to make the Galaxy S5 experience even more enjoyable and productive.

“We are continually looking for the best partners to help us expand and enhance the mobile experience for our dedicated users,” said JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics. “The Galaxy S5 was designed to offer consumers the most advanced tool to help improve their everyday lives. These new partnerships perfectly compliment this mission with a comprehensive offering of some of the world’s best mobile resources to suit people’s active lives.”

Designed for what matters most to consumers, the Galaxy S5 is redefining how technology innovation enhances everyday life by providing a refined experience focused on the most essential features for day-to-day use. Samsung Galaxy S5 combines an advanced camera, the fastest network connectivity, dedicated fitness tools and enhanced device protection features so consumers can stay fit and connected in style.

Content Gifts Offered Benefit and Availability

More about our partners:

· RunKeeper: Turn your Galaxy S5 into a personal trainer in your pocket. Track your fitness activities and share with friends. Measure your performance over time. Galaxy S5 users can get free 1-year membership to RunKeeper Elite.

“Millions of people around the world count on RunKeeper for guidance and motivation around their fitness,” said Jake Cacciapaglia, Director of Business Development at RunKeeper. “RunKeeper’s partnership with Samsung provides users access to live activity broadcasting and deeper insights around their fitness. We’re excited to work together with Samsung to improve the lives of Galaxy S5 users by helping them get and stay fit.”

· MapMyFitness: Built to help runners, joggers, and walkers of all ability levels and ages. Easily track pace, distance, calories, time with audio alerts and much more.  Track running, cycling, and more than 600 types of other activities. Galaxy S5 users can get Free 6 months MVP access and no ads.

“The MapMyFitness MVP service provides unlocked features and premium training tools, allowing our members worldwide to train smarter and reach their goals,” said Robin Thurston, President at MapMyFitness. “Along with the existing news content, task management and social tools available in Galaxy Gifts, MapMyFitness is excited to offer a top-quality fitness subscription and round out the complete mobile experience.”

· Skimble: Workout Trainer provides 1,000’s of multimedia workouts led by expert coaches. Workouts come equipped with dynamic, move-by-move video, photo, and text instructions. Galaxy S5 users can enjoy 6 months free Pro+ premium membership experience.

“People want to live an active lifestyle but often lack guidance, motivation, and time,” said Maria Ly, co-founder and CEO of Skimble. “Samsung and Skimble are putting fitness at the forefront by partnering together and turning the Galaxy S5 into a dynamic personal trainer that does (most of) the heavy lifting for you. New Workout Trainer users signed up from a Galaxy S5 with Samsung Apps can enjoy a 6-month free Pro+ membership experience. Moreover, Workout Trainer seamlessly integrates with Samsung’s S Health™ platform.”

· Lark: Lark, your Personal Wellness Assistant, provides easy, personalized recommendations on how to be fitter and healthier, simply based on S5’s low-power sensors. Samsung Galaxy S5 users will get access to 12 free months of lark’s premium health and wellness service application.

“The Samsung Galaxy S5 and Lark’s Personal Assistant for Health and Wellness will change the way the world views their smart phone,” said Julia Hu, Lark’s founder and CEO. “The new Galaxy S5 is no longer just a communication device but a highly personalized lifestyle companion powered with services like Lark to support users as they improve their everyday lives.”

· Paypal**: Get the best mobile shopping experience on your Galaxy S5 and enjoy special offers from your favorite stores when you pay with PayPal.

“With millions of people using PayPal to shop on mobile devices, it’s more important than ever to make mobile shopping easy, frictionless and secure,” said David Marcus, President of PayPal. “Fingerprint authentication capabilities on mobile devices means that consumers no longer need to sacrifice security for convenience. The Galaxy S5 implementation enables PayPal customers to shop at millions of merchants with a simple swipe of the finger. It’s one of the most seamless payment experiences on a mobile device today.”

· Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal.  The News you want. The insight you need. Unparalleled financial, business and world news 24/7. Galaxy S5 offers free 6-months full access for FREE.

“This partnership is excellent news for Samsung customers, who will get the breadth and depth of The Wall Street Journal’s agenda-setting journalism from markets to marketing, sport to style and reviews to real estate when they buy products from the new Samsung line.  This is an innovative offer from two innovative companies.”

· Bloomberg Businessweek+: Get fresh perspectives on business news and market trends along with exclusive content and interactive features. Get 1 year for free with Galaxy S5.

“Read Bloomberg Businessweek+ weekly for a fresh perspective on global business news and market trends along with exclusive content and interactive features that enrich the reading experience,” said Andy Lack, Chairman, Bloomberg Media Group. “Download the FREE app on your Samsung device and get your first year of Bloomberg Businessweek+ FREE.”

· LinkedIn: The GALAXY S5 includes integration with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 277 million members worldwide. The new Galaxy S5 lets people bring LinkedIn into the phonesnative Contacts, Email and Calendar applications. Galaxy S5 users will get access to three months of LinkedIn Premium – Business.

“LinkedIn members are getting work done on their mobile devices, so we need to be there too. That is why we’re excited to put the power of LinkedIn in the pockets of Samsung Galaxy S5 owners,” said Bob Rosin, LinkedIn’s vice president of business development. “The integration of LinkedIn into Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 smartphone will help people be better prepared for their work day. When you connect the new Galaxy S5 with your LinkedIn account, you will see useful content, such as the profile photo, headline, job title, and company information about people you are connecting with and meeting during the day directly inside the native email, calendar, and contacts apps of the phone.”

· Cut the Rope 2: Cut the rope to feed candy to little monster Om Nom®! More than 400 million downloads around the world of this phenomenal puzzle game. You can earn free $10 game credit with Galaxy S5.

“Hundreds of millions of fans around the world love Cut the Rope. The latest and greatest of Cut the Rope with the latest and greatest of Samsung Galaxy S are a great combination,” said CEO MishaLyalin. “Cut the Rope 2 on Samsung Galaxy S5 is an enhanced cutting edge experience for the players. Samsung is offering Samsung Gift pack with an abundance of free offers and we are pleased to offer free in-app credits as part of the Gift Pack.”

· Flick Dat: A fun, easy and productive way to create and share contacts with a simple flick gesture.  Users can turn all of their contacts into stylized business cards ready to view or share via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Galaxy S5 users will never run out of business cards!

“In this world of high tech with driverless cars and 3D printing it’s surprising that the exchanging of paper business cards is still the norm… until now,” said actor Damon Wayans. “Flick Dat is excited to team up with Samsung to solve this simple archaic problem on the new galaxy S5.  As soon as the Flick Dat app is launched your personalized business card is at the ready to be shared.  It’s simple as click pick and flick.”

·  Box: Box makes it easy to access and edit your files, share content and stay connected with your team from anywhere on Galaxy S5 devices.

“Box empowers 225,000 businesses and 25 million users to share content and collaborate no matter where they are,” said David Still, vice president of Mobile Products at Box. “By partnering with Samsung, Box will provide an elegant, intuitive and secure platform that enables individuals and businesses to be productive from their Samsung S5 device..”

· Bitcasa: Bitcasa allows users to store, share, backup and stream an unlimited amount of data in a secure cloud. Galaxy S5 users can enjoy three months of free Bitcasa 1TB storage.

“With digital content growing at an amazing pace consumers need a safe place to store all their photos, videos and movies that is easy and offers accessibility on any device,” said Brian Taptich, CEO of Bitcasa. “Our partnership with Samsung gives GALAXY NotePRO and TabPRO users a premium mobile platform with an added secure storage layer designed for today’s digital lifestyle.”

· Dropbox: Dropbox simplifies the work and personal lives of millions of people by letting them bring their documents, photos, and videos anywhere and share them easily. The service is used by more than 200 million people and 4 million businesses, with over 1 billion files saved per day. Dropbox offers 50 GB of space for two years with the new Samsung Galaxy S5.

“We’re excited to continue expanding our long-standing partnership with Samsung by introducing even more integrations on the Samsung Galaxy S5,” said Christine Moon, head of mobile partnerships and devices at Dropbox. “Now Samsung Galaxy S5 users around the world can benefit from the peace of mind and convenience of having key application content and their most important files at their fingertips via Dropbox.”

· Blurb: Blurb offers creative self-publishing that enables you to create a mobile book. You now get a $5 coupon to create your own professional-quality printed photo book.

“This continued partnership between Blurb and Samsung highlights both companies’ commitment to creativity and self-expression,” said Blurb founder and CEO, Eileen Gittins. “With large, high-definition screen, Samsung’s Galaxy S5 serves as the optimal medium to bring our user’s stories to life.”

· EasilyDo Pro: EasilyDo Pro helps you manage time efficiently on a large, clear screen. Galaxy S5 users get free EasilyDo Pro for 6 months.

“EasilyDo makes sure you never miss anything on your Samsung Galaxy S5. The app proactively reminds you of birthdays, checks traffic, notifies you about bad weather, tracks packages, organizes contacts, and more! With the Multi Window and Air View features, managing commitments and responsibilities are easy on the large, clear screen, all by hovering and swiping over the device.”

· Evernote**: Stay organized, save ideas and improve productivity with Evernote. Galaxy S5 users get free Evernote Premium free for 3 months.

“Being productive today means being organized and working effectively no matter where you are and across every screen you’ve got,” said Won Park, Director of Partnerships at Evernote. “We are excited to help people do just that by bringing the Evernote Premium experience to the industry-leading Samsung Galaxy S5 with this partnership.”

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**The services listed above may not be available in all regions and features may vary by region. Also, service provider may change the name and/or value of its application at any time. Restrictions may also apply. Please visit for more detail about the offer www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys5/galaxygifts.html

*All functionality features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice or obligation.