Two more Android devices are rumored to be headed out of Samsung’s factory in addition to the Continuum smartphone launched in New York City on Monday. Leaked photos and reports are keeping the Nexus Two rumor alive, only now the phone is supposedly called Nexus S (ostensibly for Samsung).
Best Buy briefly listed the phantom phone on its site, according to several Android-oriented blogs, but withdrew it. However, fans were able to note that the device has a four-inch AMOLED screen and a front-facing camera. T-Mobile is believed to be the carrier, and a November release is rumored.
The Nexus One, made by HTC, was pulled off the market last summer after Google’s attempt to market and sell it without carrier stores went horribly wrong. Some blogs speculated that the Samsung Nexus device would premier last week at the company’s media event that turned out to be the Continuum launch. A Samsung executive was quoted as denying plans for a Nexus phone.
Flagship Phone?
At the same time, Engadget, the site that obtained leaked photos of Apple’s iPhone 4 earlier this year, published shots of what it calls Samsung’s “first half flagship” for 2011, an unnamed thin Android phone with a 4.3- or 4.5-inch Super AMOLED 2 display, a 1.2-gigahertz processor (most current Android phones run at one gigahertz or lower), an eight-megapixel camera, and running Android 2.3, Gingerbread. Speculation is that the phone could be unveiled at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain which begins Feb. 14.
Two more Android phones would bring Samsung’s total to 13, tying with HTC behind the 18 offerings running Android made by Motorola, according to a 2010 list on Androphones.com. In 2009 Samsung made just four Android phones. Samsung also uses Android to power its Galaxy Tab tablet.
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