Samsung’s new ultra-premium cast phone launched in China with f/1.5 breach camera and Bixby

Samsung has apparent its latest affluence clamshell phone at an accident in Xiamen, China, and it’s an complete monster.

Samsung has apparent its latest ultra-premium clamshell phone at an accident in Xiamen, China, and it’s an complete monster. As is usually the case with Samsung’s flagship “flip phones”, the W2018 will alone retail in Asia and is accepted to amount upwards of $2,000.

The South Korean giant’s new W-series phone is a almsman to aftermost year’s W2017, not the Leader 8 which was appear aloof a few months ago. The W2018’s barrage additionally marks the range’s tenth anniversary, as able-bodied as Samsung’s 25th in the Chinese bazaar in general.

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As for the phone itself, we’re attractive at an clearly high-end accessory congenital from a aggregate of metal and glass. It comes in two colors – Elegant Gold and Platinum – and weighs in at 247 g. For some context, that’s decidedly added than both the Galaxy S8 (155 g) and Galaxy Note 8 (195 g).

The W2018 sports a brace of 4.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen displays, anniversary with a 1080 x 1920 resolution. For those that adopt a added acceptable clamshell experience, the phone additionally appearance a abounding keypad and abyssal buttons.

Like its contempo Galaxy S siblings, the accessory is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chipset backed by a beefy 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of accumulator (expandable up to 256 GB). It additionally comes with a dual-sim slot, a 2,300 mAh battery, a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, and Samsung’s Bixby abettor (and yes, it does accept a committed Bixby button).

As able-bodied as acceptable the aboriginal clamshell phone to affection a agenda assistant, the W2018 additionally claims a abundant added absorbing ‘world first’ acknowledgment to its rear 12 MP camera. While that doesn’t complete too agitative at a glance, the dank allotment is the distinct sensor’s f/1.5 breach – the everyman we’ve apparent to date on a adaptable phone, assault out the LG V30’s f/1.6 camera aperture.

On the downside, the affluence phone alone runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box, although Samsung promised that an amend to Oreo (8.0) is on the way in 2018.