Samsung has announced its latest premium flip phone in China named W2017, which is the successor to W2016 that was introduced last year. It has dual 4.2-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) Super AMOLED displays, one on the outside and one on the inside.
The excitement doesn’t end there! The smartphone runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 820 SoC (two cores clocked at 2.1GHz, and two cores clocked 1.6GHz) coupled with 4GB of RAM.
In the Camera department, the Smartphone packs a 12-Megapixel rear camera with f/1.7 aperture and flash, with support for 4K video recording, and a 5-Megapixel front camera with f/1.9 aperture. The Samsung W2017 comes with 64GB of onboard storage, which is expandable via microSD card up to 256GB in a Hybrid dual-SIM configuration (nano + nano/microSD).
It supports 4G LTE but it doesn’t support Indian LTE bands! It also has Bluetooth v4.1, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, GPS + GLONASS, NFC and a Micro-USB port that also operates as a headphone jack. It’s fuelled by a 2300mAh battery.
The Samsung W2017 measures 127.8×61.4×15.8mm and weighs 208 grams. It comes with a Fingerprint Scanner, an Always-On display and has support for fast wired and wireless charging. Sensors on board include a heart rate sensor, accelerometer, barometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, gyroscope, and magnetometer.
The Samsung W2017 will soon be released in China and is unlikely to be released elsewhere. Pricing has not yet been confirmed but it is expected to be quite expensive, over 20,000 yuan or almost $3,000(₹2 Lakhs) which is twice as expensive the previous one(W2016) which was priced at almost ₹1 Lakh!
Are Flip phones really back? Remember those days when flip phones were so popular and were so cool to have, I really missed those bad boys. I’m glad that Samsung made a move like this. But at this hefty price tag, will anybody care to buy? Let us know your opinion in the comments section below.
