First Refrigerator of its Kind Provides Plenty of Food for Thought with Advanced Temperature Settings and Customizable Drawers

Ridgefield Park, NJ - Samsung Electronics, a recognized design and technology leader and one of the world's largest manufacturers of home appliances, today launches its Four-Door Convertible Refrigerator. The convertible refrigerators have four zones with adjustable temperature settings to allow truly customized food storage.

"The Four-Door Convertible Refrigerator is Samsung's latest example of versatility and product innovation. This home appliance novelty provides consumers with the flexibility they need for everyday refrigeration," said Paul Mumm, Sr. Marketing Manager of Home Appliances for Samsung. "Whether hosting an opening day baseball event or gathering friends over for a dinner party consumers can convert the refrigerator space to freezer space and increase storage capacity to store the leftovers in a matter of minutes."

Samsung engineers have created a unique four-zone system that provides precise and independent temperature control to optimize storage for different items. Users can adjust the climate in different zones to keep ice cream extra-cold or soft freeze vegetables to prevent spoiling.

Two convertible drawers offer high temperature settings (41 F - Wine Chilling) and low temperature settings (-14 F - Power Freeze) in addition to standard refrigerator, freezer and soft freeze settings. The drawers can actually convert from refrigerator to freezer and back again at a rapid pace. A large digital LCD panel controls the cooling zones and provides convenient, intuitive operation.

The Convertible Refrigerators feature 25 cubic feet of storage capacity. Samsung's exclusive time divided multicycle (TDM) system includes four separate evaporators to ensure optimal temperature and humidity for all sections. The TDM system keeps produce fresh for longer, and the four completely divided compartments provide easy organization of groceries. The independence of the sections prevents odor transfer and allows foods to be kept separate, to maintain a healthy storage environment.

The four-door refrigerator features a clean, modern design and stainless steel tubular handles. Two colors will be available for the US market, Black and Stainless Platinum and Stainless Steel.

Samsung's refrigerators match their advanced technology with superior performance. According to the annual J.D. Power and Associates 2005 Major Home Appliance StudySM, Samsung is ranked "Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Refrigerators." Samsung's refrigerators received excellent ratings from consumers in the highly critical and most important performance factor of the survey. Not only were those surveyed very pleased with the performance of Samsung's refrigerators, but they also gave superior ratings for the prices of the products.