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Samsung prepared an interesting smartphone for China Unicom, which is the second-largest mobile operator in the world’s most populous country. Model number GT-B9120 sports a clamshell form factor and, get this – two 3.5-inch WVGA Super AMOLED touchscreens! To be fair, we’ve already seen a similar Samsung product though it wasn’t running Android — Samsung SCH-W689 is powered by Sammy’s own Bada OS, instead. So this is the first such Android smartphone we’ve ever seen!
Pretty cool, especially for folks who can’t live without the classic numeric keypad and would “rather die than use a touchscreen-only interface.”
Aside from the two screens, the GT-B9120 also rocks a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one, Qualcomm’s MSM8260 dual-core processor (clocked at 1.2 or 1.5 GHz), HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 1GB of RAM, Bluetooth and 16GB of built-in storage. At the moment, it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread though I guess it’s fair to say that an Ice Cream Sandwich update will be released at some point in the (near) future.
All said, we hope to see something similar released in the Western hemisphere. Heck, I may be tempted want to try it out. We’ll see whether we can get a review unit…
[Via: Unwired View]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
