Samsung Galaxy Golden 3 News: New Samsung Flip Phone Gets TENAA Certification
A new device that is rumored to be the Samsung Galaxy Golden 3 recently passed TENAA certification in China, according to a Tech Times report. Listed as the SM-W2016, the device is a flip phone which is said to come with impressive specs.
Samsung has yet to confirm if the device listed is really the successor of its flip phone series. Rumors that it is indeed the Samsung Galaxy Golden 3 is based on the model numbers of the previous Galaxy Golden phones, with the first one having the number SW-2014 and the second one as SW-2015. The first Galaxy Golden phone was released in 2013, while the second one was never released.
According to the TENAA listing, the new device is reported to have two displays, one external and one internal, with a screen size of 3.9 inches and a resolution of 768 x 1,280 pixels. A contradicting report from a benchmarking site GFXBench, however, said that the phone will come with a larger 4.6-inch display.
The phone is reported to come with a powerful processor running at 2.1 GHz with 3 GB of RAM. While the TENAA listing did not indicate the type of processor, the GFXBench leak, however, claims that it will be powered by the Samsung Exynos 7 and a MaliT760 MP8 GPU. Internal storage will be a 64 GB and is not expandable because of the lack of a microSD slot.
Its cameras are reported to be a 16 megapixel rear shooter and a 5 megapixel front shooter. The phone's thickness is at 0.59 inches, thicker than more smartphones but thinner than the first Samsung Galaxy Golden which was at 0.62 inches. It will come pre-installed with Android 5.1 Lollipop.
Comparing the upcoming device with its predecessor, it has a better display resolution and a more powerful processor. The first flip phone only had a 1.7 GHz dual-core chipset and 1.5 GB of RAM. Cameras were an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.9-megapixel front camera. It was first released in August 2013.
