SUNNYVALE, California, March 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, today announced that Telegent's analog mobile TV receiver is shipping in Samsung's Star TV S5233T handset, recently launched in Southeast Asia. With this handset, Samsung adds free-to-air TV to one of its most popular touchscreen models, providing Southeast Asia consumers with mobile access to live, free TV content.

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The Samsung Star TV integrates the analog mobile TV feature with rich graphical touchscreen controls. Innovations introduced by Samsung in this model include the ability to flick the screen to change channels, one-click screen capture and record, on-screen keypad channel entry and reception of incoming SMS messages with continuous TV viewing.

Samsung has raised the bar for the mobile TV viewing experience with the Star TV's combination of high RF sensitivity and innovative TV feature implementation, said Sam Sheng, president and CEO of Telegent. Samsung has delivered superior ease of use in a small, thin touchscreen TV design that stands out in the marketplace.

Analog mobile TV has rapidly gained the attention of consumers worldwide. Analyst firm Forward Concepts estimates that free-to-air mobile TV accounts for more than half of the world market for broadcast TV handsets shipped in 2009. Devices that support these standards enable a global market for mobile TV, with more than 88% of the world's population continuing to receive analog broadcast TV signals during 2013.

About Telegent Systems, Inc.

Telegent Systems is a fabless semiconductor company that enables the reception of live, free-to-air analog and digital broadcast television in mobile handsets and other portable consumer devices. Telegent's television-on-a-chip solutions solve the long-standing technical challenges that have precluded mobile reception of analog broadcast TV, enabling manufacturers and operators to benefit from the convergence of broadcast TV with mobile and portable devices. Telegent's products are the most widely sold broadcast television solutions for mobile handsets in the world. For more information, visit www.telegent.com.

SOURCE: Telegent Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Diana Jovin, VP Corporate Marketing of Telegent Systems, Inc.,+1-408-990-7092, djovin@telegent.com; or Matt Humphries of Babel PR,+44-207-434-5550, telegent@babelpr.com, for Telegent Systems, Inc.