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Samsung Electronics brings back flip phones with Android

Samsung Electronics brings back flip phones with Android

The device, called the W789, is only listed on Samsung's Chinese website and the company has not announced plans to sell it elsewhere.

BT Online Bureau
  • Wellington,
  • Updated Aug 19, 2013 4:46 PM IST
Samsung Electronics brings back flip phones with Android
Samsung Electronics, the South Korean tech giant, is speculated to be developing a flip phone which would run on the Android OS.

The device is only listed on Samsung's Chinese website and the company has not announced plans to sell it elsewhere.

Stuff.co.nz reports that the comeback version of the flip phone is called the W789, featuring two screens, one on the cover and another on the inside and comes in a light-purple coloured shell with a retro numerical keyboard for dialing.

The report said the device's two screens measure 3.3 inches and have 320x480 pixel resolutions.

The W789 is rumoured to run on a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, with a 5-megapixel rear camera and has 8 GB of storage running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

With inputs from ANI

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Published on: Aug 19, 2013 4:45 PM IST
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