Yes, the clamshell phones that were such as rage is yester years are still alive. For some reason, even in such an advanced age of touch screen phones, these form factor refuses to die. In fact, Japanese people are still hooked onto their clamshell phone and buy them in loads. This has prompted Samsung to build a flip phone last year and called it W2016.
It was a good phone with strong specs and premium body. Well, the next iteration of the phone is in works in Samsung’s secret labs and has been codenamed “Veyron”.
The name of the supercar from Bugatti symbolizes top of the line performance and oozes luxury. Samsung is with the intent of building the phone in a similar manner. This clamshell phone will feature the Exynos 8890 chipset that is Samsung’s equivalent of the snapdragon 820 and 4GB of ram to go with 64GB of internal memory. The same excellent camera of the Galaxy S7 will be fitted into the phone.
The differentiating feature apart from the flip design is the dual 3.9 inch super AMOLED displays that are touch enabled. The model number associated with the phone is SM-2017 and is most likely to be launched in the month of November.
The price of the device won’t be cheap. Last year’s model was available for around $900 and this phone is also speculated to follow suit.
The phone will be available in regions such as china, south Korea, and japan.
The flip phone will come in the usual night black and gold colours but an ultra expensive real gold version is also rumoured.