Samsung 'flagship' phone with Gingerbread and huge display coming in early 2011

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#71566 12-Nov-2010 15:38

Engadget have broken an exclusive story on a new Samsung superphone:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/11/exclusive-samsung-flagship-phone-with-gingerbread-and-huge-di/

Looks yummy.

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#403924 12-Nov-2010 15:55

Either they've ripped off the MIUI custom ROM UI for the screenshots, or MIUI is based more on Gingerbread than we suspected.

1.2Ghz, a big display, and stupidly thin. Unless Samsung have found some amazing new battery technology, then battery life is not going to be very good. Unless their "sAMOLED2" screens are super-efficient?

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#403929 12-Nov-2010 16:03

There is already a thread going on here: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=97&topicid=71552

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#403932 12-Nov-2010 16:07

4.5" screen! Here I was worried about whether the 4.3" DesireHD would fit in my pocket. I guess there's always cargo pants

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I hope;

It will have a GPS that works properly out of the box,

won't lag,

and will have computer interface software that is straight forward to use.

Edit: Magu The thread you linked is about the Nexus S.

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#403937 12-Nov-2010 16:17

magu: There is already a thread going on here: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=97&topicid=71552

No - this seems to be quite a different phone to the Nexus S being talked about in that thread.

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#403940 12-Nov-2010 16:24

Launched Feb 2011.
So VFNZ and TelecomNZ should have them available for Christmas 2011....... or 2012 maybe...., if the world still exists......

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#405244 16-Nov-2010 11:38

eracode:

No - this seems to be quite a different phone to the Nexus S being talked about in that thread.

Speculation is they're one and they may be one and the same.

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#405246 16-Nov-2010 11:50

eracode:
magu: There is already a thread going on here: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=97&topicid=71552

No - this seems to be quite a different phone to the Nexus S being talked about in that thread.

My bad. Saw the Engadget link and thought it was about the same story as the Nexus S. This looks incredibly awesome.

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#405258 16-Nov-2010 12:24

That looks fake. Iphone icons, really?

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#405270 16-Nov-2010 12:52

siimo2005: That looks fake. Iphone icons, really?

Yeah definitely because iPhone really patented the cog, envelope, phone icon...looks like the Palm III also copied the iPhone icons....

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#405271 16-Nov-2010 12:53

siimo2005: That looks fake. Iphone icons, really?

I fail to see the similarities personally, with perhaps the exception being the Settings button.
Can you provide a picture comparison example?

If anything, it looks like MIUI: http://noscope.com/journal/2010/09/miui

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#405281 16-Nov-2010 13:10

Here are some reasons why: http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/11/11/were-pretty-sure-the-samsung-february-2011-flagship-device-r.../

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#405289 16-Nov-2010 13:36

You may well be right, however this image looks a lot more convincing:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/11/11/samsung-nexus-s-picture-appears-on-best-buy-mobile-running-g.../
Compare with this device:
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/11/11/samsung-nexus-s-live-pictures-specs-specifications/

The sensors at the top of the phone look almost identical.

However, there's also gross inconsistencies between a 5MP vs 8MP camera, not to mention the CPU speed some cite as 1.2Ghz, whereas others cite a dual-core.

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#405309 16-Nov-2010 13:53

CNet's Crave site is saying the " ...images appear to be mock ups hastily thrown together for the sake of presentation" but they seem reasonably certain that the annoncement is real:

http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20022785-251.html?tag=mncol;txt

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