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Samsung To Create Olympic Edition Smartphone?
It looks like Samsung will be the official wireless telecommunications partner of the London 2012 Olympics and apart from that huge announcement, it looks like they will be releasing a Olympic edition smartphone too. Not too long ago at Google’s I/O there was already a I/O edition of their Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and now an Olympic edition phone? Perhaps this is Samsung’s new “thing”. David Song, managing director of Samsung UK and Ireland had this to say:
We are going to launch a smartphone that all the UK citizens can enjoy. Even if they are not in the stadiums, they will be able to see [the events] their devices.”
The reasoning behind the Olympic edition smartphone is that they wanted to create a device which was high spec’ed enough to be able to stream live videos from the various Olympic events. Collectors don’t get excited yet as Samsung is still working with local and overseas networks to ensure that the wireless infrastructure would allow a seamless streaming of video to the device, after all no one likes to see their videos continuously buffer.
Given that 2012 is only less than a year away we have to wonder if Samsung will meet this objective in time or will it be released later purely for collective reasons?
LG has been rather quiet about developing its very own mobile chipset design for some time already, where the first Nuclun SoC will soon be followed up by – surprise, surprise, the Nuclun 2. This is not the first time that the Nuclun 2 name was brought up, and up till now, there has been no devices that were released with Nuclun 2 at its heart, although that might change with the upcoming V10 successor if rumors prove to be correct.
In other words, the LG V10’s successor will most probably be released some time in the second half of the coming year, which means it will be some time before it ends up as a shipping product. It also remains to be seen whether the Nuclun 3 will hit the streets in the near future, but as with most other cases, patience is definitely called for.
So, there is a new Samsung smartphone that is about to be released – big surprise, that, and I say this with full a sarcasm. Still, those who want something that looks to hang out on the high end side of things in terms of design and form factor, and yet having a mid-range performer within, can always settle for the Samsung Galaxy A9.
The handset has already appeared on the FCC database, which means it has been approved, and listed as the Samsung Galaxy A9. With the green light given, it is but a matter of time before it hits the market. While very little detail has been released so far, it should not be too long now before an official announcement is made. All that one can do now is to sit tight and wait. [FCC Page]
What is the world’s best kept secret? I suppose that would be a subjective question, with a myriad of answers for your picking if you were to take into consideration the different industries and niches, but where smartphones are concerned, especially with the HTC banner involved, then it would be the HTC One X9 being the next handset from the company. A set of photos of the alleged device has surfaced, and in these photos, it has more or less confirmed the overall design of the device – including its SIM card slot, power and volume button locations.
Other rumored hardware specifications include a 5.5” Full HD display, a MediaTek MT6795 SoC, either 2GB or 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, a 3,000mAh battery, a 13MP shooter at the back with OIS, and an UltraPixel front camera. All that we have to do now is to sit tight and wait for an official announcement concerning the hardware, and it is good to go.