A picture of a T-Mobile branded Samsung smartphone has been obtained by TmoNews and speculation is that the device is the SGH-T699 that we wrote about last month. Back then, the hope was that the model was a T-Mobile variant of the Samsung GALAXY Nexus. But as you can see from the picture, it is apparently a handset sporting a side-sliding physical QWERTY keyboard.
The device is said to be equipped with a 5MP rear-facing camera, a front-facing camera and an LED notification light. Thanks to a User Agent Profile found last month, we also know that inside that body lies the beating heart of a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 or S4 processor, and the resolution of the display is 720 x 1280. While we can't really get a feel for how high each key on the QWERTY lies, we can say that the 5-row offset keyboard looks like it might be quite serviceable. The source for TmoNews says that the device runs smoothly with no lags or slowdowns.
For those who are addicted to a physical QWERTY to type on, this could be a very interesting model even if the 5MP camera indicates a more low to mid range device.
Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G T699 specs
- GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
- SIM Mini-SIM
- Announced 2012, September
- Status Available. Released 2012, September
- BODY Dimensions 126 x 66 x 13.5 mm (4.96 x 2.60 x 0.53 in)
- Weight 147 g (5.19 oz)
- Keyboard QWERTY
- - Touch-sensitive controls
- DISPLAY Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~233 ppi pixel density)
- Multitouch Yes
- SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
- Loudspeaker Yes
- 3.5mm jack Yes
- MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB
- Internal 8 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
- DATA GPRS Yes
- EDGE Yes
- Speed HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA
- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
- NFC Yes
- USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
- CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
- Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection
- Video Yes, 720p@30fps
- Secondary Yes, 1.3MP
- FEATURES OS Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
- Chipset Qualcomm MSM8260A Snapdragon
- CPU Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait
- GPU Adreno 225
- Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
- Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
- Browser HTML, Adobe Flash
- Radio No
- GPS Yes, with A-GPS
- Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- Colors Black
- - SNS integration
- - MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- - Organizer
- - Image/video editor
- - Document editor
- - Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
- YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- - Voice memo/dial/commands
- - Predictive text input (Swype)
- BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1800 mAh
- Stand-by Up to 312 h
- Talk time Up to 10 h
via Phonearena.com, GSMArena.com
