OREANDA-NEWS. September 5, 2012. The champions of the XXX Olympic Games and outstanding historic athletes have been the first to get MegaFon Mint, the smartphone presented to the Russian users on August 22.

MegaFon and Intel are happy to present MegaFon Mint to the Russian consumers – the first result of joint activities of the both companies,” said Andrey Matveyev, marketing director for Russia and CIS of Intel. “This is a forceful Intel technologies based smartphone, which has been developed within a record brief period of time. We are glad that its launch to the market overlapped such an event as the final of the Olympic Games in London, where the Russian athletes showed the speed and force, fascinating records and remarkable winning. We believe it is right that the first holders of Megafon Mint will be our Olympians.” “Every athlete constantly faces challenges — exercises, competitions, travelling. We hope that MegaFon Mint and high speed Internet from MegaFon will make it more convenient and full!” said Oleg Prokopchuk, head of sales channels development of MegaFon.

MegaFon Mint has been developed on the base of Intel’s technological solution, including processor Intel® Atom™ Z2460 with Intel® Hyper-Threading technology and Intel® XMM™ 6260 platform with HSPA+ network support. This ensures a high data transmission and productivity of any application. At the same time, smartphone has a long battery service time – up to five hours of 3G web surfing or forty-five hours of music playback or eight hours of phone talks** upon a single charge.

MegaFon Mint features a mat-black case, touch operated HD 4.03” LCD for fine and luminous display of any text or images. Processor Intel® Atom™ is 1.6 GHz, graphics are 400 MHz and Full HD (1080p) for high quality games and video applications. Smartphone has 8 Mpx camera with improved image processing including continuous mode to shoot up to 10 pictures a second. Intel and MegaFon have much worked together to adapt Android* and include special MegaFon’s applications and services.

Smartphone has come on sale upon August 22 in MegaFon-branded stores and web-shop shop.megafon.ru at 17,990 rubles.

The London Games newly fledged champions and medal winners have become the holders of MegaFon Mint: Anastasia Davydova the five-time synchronized swimming Olympic champion, Natalya Ischenko and Maria Gromova the three-time synchronized swimming champions, Svetlana Romashina the two-time synchronized swimming Olympic champion, Alina Makarenko the modern rhythmic gymnastics Olympic champion and Sofia Velikaya the silver medalist of the Olympics 2012. The sponsors also gave new smartphones to the historic Olympic champions Roman Kostomarov, Svetlana Masterkova, Karina Aznavuryan, Anna Gavrilenko, Alexey Mishin and Stanislava Komarova.