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Tomorrow we’ll be seeing the first appearance of the biggest smartphone release from Samsung of the year – the Galaxy S4, their newest hero phone and leader of the pack when it comes to style for the upcoming 12 months. Here before the official unveiling of the device [7PM EST tomorrow, March 14th – join us live!], Samsung has been fairly good with keeping the full final build under wraps. There are some bits and pieces, however, that will almost certainly be appearing in this next-generation smartphone – certain features will be showing up with the Samsung Galaxy S4 that we can list even before the company itself makes the final official blast.

1. Size

With the rise in size of the Samsung lineup of devices and the success of the Samsung Galaxy Note device collection across the board, the Samsung smartphone in general will continue to remain large. If what we’ve seen from Samsung thus far is true – especially in the teaser you’re seeing here, the Samsung Galaxy S4 will either be rising to 4.9 inches across its display, or it’ll remain the size it is right this minute in the Galaxy S III.

2. Operating System

The Samsung Galaxy S4 will run Android. That’s a given. If Samsung decides to push their own TouchWiz user interface as a full-fledged operating system some time in the future, we can still rest assured that it wont be happening this week. Android will be running on the Galaxy S4 in a Jelly Bean iteration 4.2 or higher and a newly feature-packed version of Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface will be running on top.

3. Connectivity

As it has been with each past release of the Galaxy S series and more recently with the Note series, each of the major carriers here in the United States will be rolling out with the Galaxy S4 right out of the gate. While we’re not sure that the release date will be the same for each of the top 4 carriers in the USA, we can be really confident that we’ll see 4G LTE as well as HSPA+ for everyone – both inside and out of North America.

4. Style

The Samsung “nature-themed” hardware trend will continue with the Galaxy S4. This was foretold by the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, a device the company wouldn’t style as such with a release of a family device so close and in-hand. If you’ll have a peek at the Galaxy Note 8.0 hands-on video, you’ll find that the Galaxy Note III, though it was released several months earlier, also has a similar style, and the Galaxy Note 10.1 – recently released in a 4G LTE iteration on Verizon.

5. Cost and Availability

With the releases of each of the Galaxy S and Note devices following a relatively predictable path along contract-included sales here in the USA, we can expect the Galaxy S4 to either cost $199.99 starting or $249.99 starting, depending on what size storage is smallest for the device. We’ll likely see the 16, 32, 64GB internal storage trend continue also, along with the Galaxy S III’s ability to hold up to 64GB microSD cards for more storage than you could possibly, reasonably, fill.

Join us tomorrow and SOON for the full run-down

We’ll be rolling out LIVE tomorrow for the big event in New York City and will have a full review of the Galaxy S4 as soon as sensibly possible. We’ll quite likely have up close and personal looks of the device for you tomorrow as well – so stick around the Samsung Galaxy S4 tag portal for more all across the next 24 hours and beyond!

Samsung Galaxy S4: 5 things you can expect is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s not just the Galaxy S4 that’s getting attention this week from the tip and leak gods, it’s the Samsung Galaxy Note III as well. This week we’re to understand that the next-generation Galaxy Note handset will be sporting a 5.9-inch OLED display complete with another next-generation S-Pen ready for futuristic on-screen writing action. This device will also be pushing the Exynos OCTA processor revealed earlier this year during CES 2013.

We can be confident in expecting that this version of the Galaxy Note will be rolling out with many of the features revealed on the Galaxy Note 8.0 just this pas week at Mobile World Congress 2013 as well. With this release we saw the ability to tap the back and menu keys with the pen – an ability never before seen on a Note device. We also saw out-of-the-box integration of features like multiscreen and transparent box multi-tasking, too.

This next-generation Samsung Galaxy Note III was spoken about by The Korea Times courtesy of “an official” that spoke on condition of anonymity. While it’s not the first time this publication has published anonymous tips, it would be the first time we trusted their word without a grain of salt. That said, a Galaxy Note III with a 5.9-inch display would not be out of the question given the size increase between the first and second iteration of the device.

Have a peek at our review of the Samsung Galaxy Note II as well as our hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 to gain a better understanding of what we’ll be seeing in a third handset later this year. The release of this device is likely for the first half of 2013, but we’ve had no official work from Samsung to that tune. We’ll just have to wait and see!

Samsung Galaxy Note III specifications tip another big boost is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It would appear that Samsung will indeed be showing off their fabled Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet this coming week at Mobile World Congress 2013. We’ve been sent a sort of spy-shot of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 being blasted on a large screen inside the new MWC convention location – the show still being set up in a very large way. True to what we’ve seen in several leaked bits and pieces over the past couple of weeks, this device is everything you might expect it to be – with an 8-inch screen!

What we’re seeing here is tablet device that’s ever-so-slightly larger than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, this time sporting much of the same look and the S-Pen that the most recent Galaxy Tab lineup works with. This device appears to be very much working along the lines of the Samsung Galaxy Note II and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, complete with a similar-sized bezel, silvery rim, and 2nd-gen S-Pen. We also know now that it comes in white – surprise!

Other than that it’s a relative mystery as to what we’re going to work with. One of the stranger bits we’re seeing here is the inclusion of the earpiece speaker that we’d otherwise only see on a Galaxy Note II or smaller handset. Generally this kind of speaker is made for holding up to your ear – could this be the largest smartphone yet?

You’ll want to have a peek at our full collection of Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 tips and leaks in the timeline below. Until such a time as we’ve got confirmation of specifications, you know as much as we do – stay tuned to our Samsung tag portal as well as our Mobile World Congress 2013 tag portal all week long for what’s certainly going to be an exciting week!

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 leaked at MWC is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We know Samsung is working on an 8-inch tablet in the Galaxy Note family which we have a feeling will be making its debut at MWC later this month. Three variants are expected when Samsung finally unveils the device and we’ve seen photos of the device leaked on the Internet, but the company may have just ruined its own reveal by possibly leaking the Galaxy Note 8.0 in a promotional image.

The origins of the possible leak came from yesterday’s announcement of making a red Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE available just in time for Valentine’s Day. According to the eagle-eyed readers of SammyHub, the small tablet that is hanging above the chef’s head may just be the Galaxy Note 8.

The tablet in question certainly isn’t large enough to be considered a Galaxy Note 10.1. The tablet also matches with the leaked images that were previously leaked. If that isn’t a shot of the Galaxy Note 8, then Samsung may have trolled the Internet by throwing up a completely fictional tablet in their promotional images. Chances are the tablet in question is indeed the Galaxy Note 8, which we still don’t know why exactly Samsung decided to place it in their ad for the red Galaxy Note 10.1 to begin with.

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Today appeared to be quite the day for leaks, with the Samsung GT-B9150 coming in most recently with a powerful Exynos 5 processor under the hood and a 1080p display to its name. This device brings on the 1.7GHz A15-based Exynos 5 5250 Dual processor to the game, this being the same massive beast we’ve seen in the Google Nexus 10 and the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook. This device could be the Samsung Galaxy S IV or it could be a brand new Galaxy Note – at the moment the details are quite scarce and fried with salt, as it were.

The leak today comes in the form of a benchmark result which gives away the product code for the smartphone or tablet-like device, that again being GT-B9150. This device’s code name appeared once before in similar results quite a few months ago, that time with a 720 display and certainly after the release of the Samsung Galaxy S III. This puts it in line with a release of the fourth iteration of Samsung’s flagship smartphone, but the “B” in the name we’re seeing here throws one for a loop.

This release will likely take place at the same time as the rest of the Samsung lineup tipped earlier today, that list containing several Samsung Galaxy Tab devices with different sized displays. Each of those models will be released with the name Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 while this model, again, appears to be a smaller device than the tablet pack and will either work with Galaxy S or Galaxy Note before its number – III for a note, IV for an S.

One point of clarity here is the fact that we’re so close to Mobile World Congress 2013 that we’re more than likely not going to see any of the devices listed here at that time. We’ll quite likely see Samsung present a series of devices after the event at least a week or two out, keeping the attention for themselves rather than sharing with the Mobile World Congress hoards of device-bringers. Have a peek at the timeline below for more insight!

[via SamMobile]

Samsung 1080p smartphone tipped with Exynos 5 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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