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LG Wine Smart Is the Latest Android Flip Phone

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LG Wine Smart Android Flip Phone

Just when everybody believed that flip phones are dead, buried and long forgotten, LG launched another one. Mind you, it’s not a feature phone, but a smart one that’s running Android 4.4 KitKat.

Bar phones with gigantic touchscreens now represent the main form factor when it comes to these mobile gadgets. Despite of that fact, some smartphone manufacturers still swim against the tide and launch either sliders or flip phones. If it wasn’t LG who committed this sin, we probably could’ve turned a blind eye, but it’s the maker of the G3, one of the best smartphones around, that we’re talking about. While this could seem an illogical strategy for the Korean company, there are a few things that might explain the launch of LG Wine Smart in this day and age.

LG Wine Smart is not a bad phone, considering its specs, but it definitely won’t appeal to anyone looking for a flagship. It packs a 1.2 Ghz quad-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage that can be furthermore expanded via a microSD card, and a 1,700 mAh battery. Given the form factor, LG only included a 3.5″ display with a 480×320 resolution, something that in the age of QHD displays looks like ancient technology.

The form factor and the specs suggest that this phone was built with an older audience in mind. After all, seniors are not that picky when it comes to technology. The extra-loud speaker and the emergency alert option also hint at the fact that the device was made for the elderly.

To be frank, I cannot wrap my mind around the name of this flip phone. Why call it Wine Smart, LG? When did smartphones have anything to do with wine? It’s not even a reference to the device’s color, as neither red, nor purple are to be seen. If anything, the name sounds more like an advice, but even so, it has nothing to do with smartphones. On the other hand, wine makes people a lot more communicative, and phones represent a means of communication, so there may lie the key to this flip phone’s name.

Wine Smart will only be available in South Korea, and it’s probably for the best that it’s not getting a global launch. Maybe older people should get a taste of the latest technology, as well!

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Samsung Launches the Hennessy: Android Flip Smartphone with 3.3-inch Dual Displays

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The very thought of smart phones conjures up images of slim slate-like metallic devices that have streamlined edges. A flip phone would be the last thing on your mind. Yet that is precisely what the...

Another Samsung flip-phone leaks out: the Hennessy, with dual 480 x 320 displays

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Samsung Hennessy leaks out with dualscreen

In the realm of Samsung flip-phone rumors, color us confused. Earlier, we saw a manual on Samsung's site for a Galaxy Folder (SHF-E400K), with dual 800 x 480 displays, a dual-core Snapdragon 400 CPU, 2GB of RAM, gold trim and LTE support. Now, we're seeing a so-called Samsung Hennessy (SCH-W789), another dual-screen clamshell model with 320 x 480 resolution on both of its 3.27-inch screens, a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU, 5-megapixel camera, dual-sim support and, yes, a "Luxury Gold" color trim option. The latter model has leaked multiple times from Asian rumor sites, while the presence of a manual and photos for the Folder seem to all but confirm that model. We remain skeptical, though, as the sources may have mixed up the similar-looking models, and in any case they may never arrive in the US. If they're real, though, we've obviously underestimated the size of the cognac-and-cigar throwback market.

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Leaked Samsung ‘Galaxy Folder’ suggests return of the dual-display flip phone

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Leaked Samsung 'Galaxy Folder' suggests return of the dualdisplay flip phone

It feels like yesterday we were discussing the alleged death of form factor diversity in the smartphone world, and now Samsung comes up with this: a mid-range clamshell called the Galaxy Folder (SHV-E400K) with displays on both sides of the lid. According to Japanese site RBMen, which discovered a Korean-language user manual for the device on Samsung's website, at least one of the displays is a 3.7-inch AMOLED panel with 800 x 480 resolution. Other specs include a Snapdragon 400 dual-core chip, 2GB of RAM and LTE support. The basic design is nothing new to Samsung, which came out with the similar SCH-W2013 in China last year, and the SCH-W999 a year before that, but it's good to see evidence of its survival in 2013 -- and especially if it's destined for Samsung's home market. If it was up to us though, we'd put some e-ink in that second display.

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Samsung’s SCH-W2013 is a quad-core, dual-screen flip phone, designed for Jackie Chan

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Samsung's quadcore, dualscreen flip phone SCHW2013 designed for Jackie Chan

It's been almost a year since the ridiculously expensive SCH-W999 launched on China Telecom, so it's about time for Samsung to come up with yet another dual-screen flip phone to lure folks with too much money. Launched in conjunction with a big charity concert (again) earlier today is the SCH-W2013, a 1.4GHz quad-core (likely an Exynos 4412) device with Android 4.0 and dual-3.7-inch 800 x 480 Super AMOLED touchscreens. On top of that there's 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, microSD expansion of up to 64GB, 1,850mAh of battery juice, an eight-megapixel main imager plus a whopping 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera. As with many flagship devices on China Telecom, the W2013 comes with dual-SIM support: one for CDMA2000 800/1900 and the other for GSM 900/1800/1900. The damage? Well, there's nothing official yet, but it's believed to be somewhere between ¥18,000 ($2,900) and ¥20,000 ($3,210). After all, it ain't cheap to hire Jackie Chan (and he was also given a W2013 at the concert).

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Samsung announces GT-B9120 for Android flip phone fans in China

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The emergence of Android, and the decline of the flip-phone form factor happened as such, that the two aren't all that well acquainted. Samsung, however, wants to firm-up that relationship, bringing the two together once more. The GT-B9120 is the result. A flip phone with Google's Gingerbread operating system from the Galaxy-maker, headed for the Chinese market. There's dual 3.5-inch 480 x 800 screens, and a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8260 doing the business. A 5-megapixel camera will send photos off to the 16GB internal storage, and HSPA, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth make up the wireless options. Somewhere someone's dream has just been answered, we just hope that person is in China.

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