Samsung China wants to make turn phones cool again

It may be argued that flip phones went out of favor around the time the first iPhone came out, but they by no means really left. For the last few years, Samsung has been seeking to make the turn smartphone horny once more – in China, at least – and the most modern model, the W2019, packs in some pretty excessive-quit specs, in conjunction with an similarly-high price tag.

With an aggressively angular shape and chunky bezels, the W2019 is a weird beast for the yr in its call. Measuring 137.Nine x 63.Four mm, it is a chunk smaller than maximum current-day phones, however considerably thicker at 17.3 mm when closed. A 4.2-in, Full HD display screen ornaments the front, which is likewise dwarfed through that of most other modern-day phones. But the W2019 makes up for that with a 2d display of the equal length, tucked away inside the clamshell form thing. Underneath that is a physical number pad, in some other callback to the telephones of antique.

One of the main new additions over the W2018 is a 2nd camera on the lower back. The W2019 sports twin 12-megapixel cameras with a huge aperture of f/1.5, at the side of an 8-MP selfie cam. These can shoot 4K video at 60 frames in step with 2d, and are also able to Samsung's Super slo-mo mode, which slows time right down to 960 fps.

On the internal, the W2019 is powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor, 6 GB of RAM, a 3,070 mAh battery and has the choice of 128 GB or 256 GB of storage space. It charges thru a USB-C port however is lacking a headphone jack, so that you'll need to interchange to Bluetooth headphones or earbuds if you haven't already. There's no face unlock gadget but the phone can seemingly test a person's irises, and the tried-and-authentic fingerprint reader remains intact.

Samsung has yet to launch any of the W series out of doors of China and South Korea, so we are no longer sure the W2019 might be the only to finally escape the ones confines. If it does even though, assume to pay a premium – the phone is to be had now in China for the princely sum of CNY18,999, which currently converts to kind of US$2,730.