14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is gearing up for the release of a successor for its Galaxy S II smartphone, one that might arrive on shelves under the name of Galaxy S III.
The company has already confirmed plans to launch the Galaxy S II successor in the first half of the ongoing year, during a Samsung hosted event, but did not offer specific info on the handset.
However, what appears to be the Galaxy S III smartphone has just made an appearance online on Chinese website xda.cn, providing us with both images and specs of the upcoming device.
Before having a look at them, we should warn you to take these with a big chunk of salt. It might all prove to be nothing more than a simple rumor in the end.
The images attached to this article allegedly show a prototype device that packs a 4.6-inch Super AMOLED Plus 3D touchscreen display capable of delivering a 1280x720 pixels resolution.
By all means, this could be a device totally different than the Galaxy S III, though that does not eliminate the possibility that Samsung would still launch it.
After all, the leading handset vendor did confirm plans to bring to the market mobile phones that sport flexible displays, and this could be one such prototype.
As for the Galaxy S III, it is also said to arrive on shelves with a quad-core application processor inside, an Exynos chip complemented by 2GB of RAM. On the back, the new device should sport a 12-megapixel photo snapper.
Moreover, rumor has it that the new device would run under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Since it is now a Google phone, it could also sport Samsung’s TouchWIZ interface.
Galaxy S III is expected to be officially unveiled to the world sometime in the first half of the current year, though it won’t make an official appearance at the MWC this month.