Samsung launches new smartphones, tablets in S’pore
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled new smartphone and tablet devices soon to be available in Singapore, among which include the much-awaited Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone and the Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet.
Galaxy Nexus ($948 without line contract, Feb 2012)
Labelled as the "world's first smartphone running on the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich", the Galaxy Nexus sports a sleek 8.94mm thick body and features a massive 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution. Weighing just 135g, it has a computing power of a 1.2GHz dual core processor.
The new Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating system introduces innovations such as Face Unlock, which uses facial recognition to unlock the phone. Using NFC technology, Android Beam allows the sharing of web pages, apps, and YouTube videos with friends by simply tapping the phones together.
Unlike the one rolled out in the U.S, the Galaxy Nexus that is made available for the Singapore market is not LTE-enabled, though two out of three telcos here offer Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband packages for customers.
The much-awaited Galaxy Nexus, which is largely touted as a strong competitor to Apple's iPhone 4S by renowned technology bloggers worldwide, is said to have disappointed local fans as it will only be made available next month, instead of the original release schedule of January 2012. It is priced at $948 (inclusive of GST) without line contract.
Samsung launches new smartphones, tablets in S
cfm out in Feb 2012.. $948 without contract..