Samsung today announced support for 9 Indian languages for their Galaxy smartphones and tablets. This would let the Samsung smartphone users to access the user interface and content in these languages. The 9 Indian languages include, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati. These Indian languages will be supported on Galaxy Grand, Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Tab 3 starting from today.
This would let customers access applications from Samsung Application Store in their preferred Indian language in different categories such as entertainment, games, business and more. Bharat Matrimony, India property, Times of India, BSE and Mydala and lots more application would soon be available in these Indian languages. There are lot of applications such as Newshunt, Chaton and more that are available in regional languages. Facebook and Facebook messenger would also be available for select Samsung devices in 9 Indian languages.
Samsung says that they will not work with content providers, but will develop an ecosystem with app developers to let customers experience the apps in their favorites language. At the event, Arvind Pani, Co-Founder & CEO of Reverie language Technologies has announced that they have launched Reverie PhoneBook app that would let users to access PhoneBook in several languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and English. The app would be available from Samsung App Store. It will be available for free till December 2013.
Samsung plans to roll out the regional language support for other affordable smartphones starting from the Galaxy Star starting from this month. It plans to increase the number of devices with regional language content from next month.