Exclusive: Samsung i897 in the Wild (AT&T)
As we reported here earlier this week, the Samsung i897 looks to be AT&T's first serious attempt at releasing an Android phone. In terms of specs, it appears to be almost identical to the Galaxy S with its 4-inch AMOLED screen, Android 2.1, and 5-megapixel camera. Our source for a few hardware details just dropped a handful of pictures on our lap showing the future AT&T device looking ready for prime time.
We're told this phone also features a Snapdragon processor, however we cannot confirm the speed yet. We're assuming it's clocked at 1GHz, but you know how assumptions sometimes end up. Although the phone resembles the Galaxy S on the inside, you'll notice it has a slightly different form factor.
It appears that AT&T may leave this phone alone and launch it with the full Google experience. Here's what our source had to say:
I also noticed that there is the default Google search widget on the main page of the handset. Not sure if this is a big deal but I remember reading that the Backflip used Yahoo search instead of Google. Of course this is a developer handset so they still might go with yahoo in the end.
We'll continue to bring you anything else we can get our hands on should more details pop up.
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