Samsung's high-end clamshell for the year to bump screen size to 4.2"
Apparently, Samsung's next high-end clamshell Veyron is closer than we thought. A full 12-month product life of last-year's SM-W2016 would have us expect the new model some time in November, yet the SM-W2017 has already been imported into India for testing.
As the Zauba customs website indicates, 5 units of the new flip phone have entered the country a couple of days ago, with some news coming out of the otherwise scant listing. What was initially reported to be mainly a chipset update, now seems to be a little more - screen size has been increased from 3.9 to 4.2 inches.
Samsung SM-W2016 clamshellOther than that, we can't squeeze much from the customs database, as the unit value of INR 27,492 ($400) is hardly indicative of final pricing - the SM-W2016 cost more than $1500 in China last year, so this year's model doesn't seem likely to go for a quarter of that.
Rumored specs of the Veyron from last time include an Exynos 8890 chipset, and a 12MP/5MP camera combo - if that sounds like the Galaxy S7, don't be surprised, as the SM-W2016 was largely based on the Galaxy S6 of that time.
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- AnonD-234645
- 07 Jul 2016
- nYT
A colleague in my work owns one. except the horribly short battery life. he says that the phone is awesome.
- AnonD-335311
- 07 Jul 2016
- vFX
no inspired by old .......... samsung flip phone
- S2 Owner
- 07 Jul 2016
- Iaa
This will be a big hit in the US who really love their clamshell phones, Afaik there has NOT been smart phone clamshell so the ONLY, ONLY person who we regularly see on tv with a clamshell is Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) on Criminal Minds (Moto ra...