The highly popular Samsung Galaxy S, which sold over 1 million units both in the United States and South Korea, will be coming to all three of China’s operators using their respective wireless technologies. China Telecom will get getting a CDMA variant, the SCH-I909 that is most likely the same device recently launched by Verizon Wireless and called the Fascinate, China Mobile will get the TD-SCDMA variant, the 3G network technology invented by the Chinese as to avoid paying patents to western companies who invented WCMDA … as if the Chinese ever cared about patents anyway, and it’ll be model GT-I9008, and finally China Unicom will get the WCDMA, otherwise known as 3.5G model, the GT-I9088.
“China is one of the fastest growing mobile markets and offers great potential. I am very pleased to introduce Samsung Galaxy S, which has been customized for the needs of Chinese consumers. I hope that Chinese consumers will enjoy the real value of the smart mobile experience with Samsung Galaxy S,” said JK Shin, President and Head of the Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics.
Samsung has announced that the device has sold over 3 million units world wide, which isn’t a surprise considering it’s one of the snappiest Android devices on the market with its 1 GHz Hummingbird processor. It’s also got a beautiful 4 inch Super OLED screen that’s a little too big for my personal taste, but never fails to impress anyone whose eyes witness contrast ratios never seen before. The Galaxy S runs the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, version 2.2 code name FroYo, giving you all the features you’d expect such as the ability to turn into a WiFi hotspot, an improved GMail application, and a faster web browser.
No word as to how much these devices will cost, or when they’ll come out, but it’s expected that they’ll be in line with what we’ve seen in the rest of the world.
[Via: Samsung Press Release]