Exclusive: Samsung 'flagship' phone with Gingerbread and huge display coming in early

[LeshaK]

Okay, so you're not feeling Samsung's Nexus S. We'd say that's a little premature, but still, we get it. We understand. How about this, then? Is this more to your liking? We've just been tipped with a few morsels on what should become Samsung's flagship Android device early next year -- February, to be specific, suggesting we could see an unveiling at MWC -- and it's looking promising. Different parts of the slide deck describe it as having either a 4.3- or 4.5-inch "sAMOLED2" display, presumably standing for "Super AMOLED 2" and implying that Sammy's made some advancements over the screens we've been seeing on the Galaxy S series this year. It'll naturally have Android Gingerbread and be equipped with an 8 megapixel camera capable of 1080p video capture, 14.4Mbps HSPA, Bluetooth 3.0, a 1.2GHz core of some sort, and 16GB of storage onboard. The deck describes it as having an "ultra sleek design," and judging from the side shot, we'd tend to agree. So who's holding out for this?

Update: We're confident that the above slide comes from Samsung, but one of the pictures therein is most definitely not of a new Samsung phone -- but rather a VoIP handset by Apiotek from several years ago. Considering the image in question pops up right away in a Google Image search for "ultra slim phone," we're inclined to think Samsung got a little hasty putting together the PowerPoint this time round. [Thanks, Nathan H.] Gallery: Samsung 'flagship' phone with Gingerbread and huge display coming in early 2011


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[shadowring]

Damn!
it's very cool!
but i can't buy it TT
i don't have much many
Spica is the cheapest with great spec^^

[schermvlieger]

To be honest, I would be a bit surprised (happy) to see Samsung place a phone in the market as a replacement of the Nexus, as it will be viewed as the next gen Dev phone, with Samsung more or less being forced to support every single update of Android until the device is several years old.

So, I doubt that Samsung is eager to go this way, and would rather place a Flagship model of themselves in the market that is not considered an official Dev device.

Samsung are in a direct fight with Apple at the moment, and with Nokia in a more indirect way, and they need to keep their hands free, lol

[dhardiana]

wow...i must have it ...but i don't have money ... good stuff...

[Robbert]

Aren't dualcore phones coming in early 2011 too? It would be stupid to buy this.

[munchy_cool]

As per rumors this is a dual core phone and I guess it will compete with the Motorola dual core slated to be released sometime next year...

[adi4motion]

that's more like a flagship!

[Newbee]

I can only look at and sigh I wish I had a lot of money.

[wska]

If it isn't dual core... Then its worthless to buy it..

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Cuz Next gen phones r all coming with duals i guess :O

[cordobes]

I need to win a lotto....