14 DAY TRIAL // Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has officially announced the upcoming availability of the Galaxy K Zoom smartphone in its homeland market.
However, the company has decided to change a bit the handset’s name in this market, and has called it Samsung Galaxy Zoom 2.
Apparently, the name change is exclusive to the South Korean market, and users in other countries out there will receive the phone under the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom branding, just as originally announced.
At the same time, we should note that the name change is the only different thing that Galaxy K Zoom sports in South Korea, and that its hardware specs and capabilities remain the same as before.
Thus, users who will purchase it will receive a phone packing a 4.8-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a 720p resolution.
Moreover, the handset is powered by a hexa-core Exynos 5260 chipset (a 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex A7 processor and a 1.7GHz dual-core Cortex A15 CPU), which is paired with 2GB of RAM. The smartphone also packs Mali-T624 graphics.
What's more, Samsung Galaxy Zoom 2 arrives on shelves with 8GB of internal memory, as well as with a microSD memory card slot capable of accommodating up to 64GB of external storage.
The main selling point of this smartphone is its 20.7-megapixel rear camera, which offers 10x optical zoom, and which also sports optical image stabilization, and Xenon and LED flash.
Moreover, the smartphone includes a 2MP front camera for video calling. Unfortunately, its back camera is only capable of full HD video recording, and not 4K, as the Galaxy S5.
Samsung Galaxy Zoom 2 comes to the market with the usual set of connectivity capabilities inside, such as Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC, while also offering support for LTE, Cat4 networks, and 3G frequencies (HSDPA, 42 Mbps, HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps).
The handset was unveiled with a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS and GLONASS, as well as with the entire range of common sensors.
The mobile phone runs under the Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system, but also sports a wide range of specific Samsung features and applications loaded on top of it.
In South Korea, the mobile phone will be released exclusively on the network of wireless carrier LG U+, and will sport a price tag of 693,000 Won ($681/€503) when made available, which will make it a fairly expensive device. However, its rear camera might be worth every penny.