Believe it or not, Samsung still makes flip phones.
Not only that, but they are actually flip smartphones. Oh, and the company has
maintained not one but two different lines of such devices over the past few
years, offering them in specific Asian markets only. One of those lines
comprises the Wxxxx handsets, the latest of which is the W2017 announced in
November of last year.
But there have also been Gxxxx flip phones
manufactured by the company. We're talking about the G9098 from 2014, and its
successor, the G9198 from 2015. After not releasing a new G-series clamshell
last year, Samsung looks almost ready to unleash that in 2017.
It's unsurprisingly called G9298, and it's recently
been certified both by the US FCC, as well as the Wi-Fi Alliance. The former of
those processes has yielded the image you can see above, which depicts the
smartphone while closed.
Like its predecessors, expect it to come with two
touchscreens - one of them is inside the 'clam', complementing the outer display
you can see in today's picture. Unlike the G9098 and G9198, the G9298 has a
slightly more rounded design.
The new phone is reportedly powered by the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 821 chipset, and has support for wireless charging. Unfortunately
other specs haven't been outed yet, but we hope those will be revealed soon.