The 2018 Winter Olympics is taking place in
PyeongChang, South Korea between February 9 and February 25. Samsung, as one of
the main sponsors of the Games, will give more than 4,000 personalized Galaxy
Note8 devices to athletes and IOC staff.
The phones will have a shiny white back panel with a
golden five-ring Olympics logo. The Galaxy Note8 PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games
Limited Edition will also rock golden finish of the phone’s rim, buttons and
parts of the S Pen.
The exclusive Galaxy Note8 will come with preloaded
PyeongChang 2018 themed wallpapers and apps “to help cultivate the utmost
Olympic Games experience”. Paralympians will also receive a unit of the limited
edition Galaxy Note8. Their phones will be coupled with cases that feature the
Paralympic Games logo.
PyeongChang 2018 is the second time Samsung is
involved with Olympic games in South Korea. The first time was in Seoul 1988
when the company was just a local sponsor but switched to Worldwide Partner in
the Wireless Communications Equipment category for Nagano 1998.
