Samsung G9298 flip phone gets certified by the FCC and Wi-Fi Alliance
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.
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