Luckily for Jeff and his fellow blogger, Nokia stepped in and agreed to pay for their lodging and transportation back to India.

Since the story broke, Samsung has on the matter:

"Samsung Mob!lers is a voluntary community of active Samsung mobile device users, who are offered the opportunity to participate in our marketing events across the world. At these events, all activities they undertake are on a voluntary basis. No activities are forced upon them.

We regret there was a misunderstanding between the Samsung Mob!lers coordinators and the relevant blogger, as we understand he was not sufficiently briefed on the nature of Samsung Mob!lers activities at IFA 2012. We have been attempting to get in touch with him.

We respect the independence of bloggers to publish their own stories."