Re-branded Samsung Galaxy S Coming to AT&T?

By Nicholas Tarnowsky on May 28, 2010
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samsung i897 rebrand Galaxy SFinally after AT&T’s hold off on Android devices ended, they’re looking to add some meat to their roster.  Aside from the Nexus One, AT&T doesn’t have a real high end Android phone.  Rumors today at a re-branded Samsung Galaxy S might be making its way to AT&T.  Looks like it will be released as the Samsung i897, that’s the same model that popped up a while back on a Bluetooth special interest group’s site.  Back then it was also thought that the i897 was a variant of the Galaxy S, but story just died down, until now.

If you remember the Galaxy S was unveiled a CTIA, it made a really good first impression on a lot of people.  It was Samsung’s first real Android powered “superphone.”  The Galaxy S has really impressive specs, including a beautiful 4″ inch Super AMOLED display and a 5 megapixel camera.  The phone definitely turned a lot heads, everyone just wanted to know when and where they could get their hands on it.

Now it looks like the Galaxy S has reemerged as the i897, with an AT&T logo.  An exclusive from the boys at AndroidGuys shows the mystery device is very similar to the Galaxy S, at least in looks.  Originally the two were thought to be nearly identical, but today’s leak tells us that new i897 will have a faster 1GHZ processor.  The Galaxy S is said to have  800MHz ARM based CPU.  Right now it’s unclear if the new processor is a Snapdragon, but if I had to guess, I would say, yes.  The new i897 is said to be running Android 2.1, with the new TouchWiz 3.0 interface, which also is on the Galaxy S.

That’s all there really is as of right now.  There is no official confirmation from either AT&T or Samsung.  But the phone that we see today looks very much like a final product, so a launch could just be right around the corner.  Check out the AndroidGuys article for a full set of pics.

[via AndroidGuys]

EDIT: I was wrong about the Galaxy S, it does have a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, but the AT&T branded i897 is said to have a 1GHz Snapdragon, 2 sources confirmed this, thanks for the heads up guys :)

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  • Kris

    From the official Samsung press release in March:
    “The Android-powered Galaxy S incorporates a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a 1 GHz application processor”

    This is the Hummingbird processor – not Snapdragon which is slower.

  • HighlandMX5

    Have you guys seriously been blithely oblivious to the incredible hype, rumour and discussions that have ensued around the Samsung Galaxy S in both the expected 8gb and 16gb internal memory versions ? (outside the borders of U.S. airspace I might, facetiously, add :) )

    I can advise that no, it will not be an 800 MHz CPU in the Galaxy S which will have a 1GHz CPU but it will not be a Hummingbird. Instead it will have a Samsung processor which co-incidentally offers astounding graphics performance (google galaxy s triangles per second). The information about the Galaxy S i9000 is readily available on Google.

    The specs seem pretty well finalized and launch is expected in a matter of days.

    What’s currently hot topic over here is the fact that Samsung appear to have signed an exclusive supply deal with Vodafone for the version of the Galaxy S i9000 which will have 16GB internal memory (as opposed to the 8GB standard version), which would be all fine as may be had Vodafone not just decided to celebrate having Samsung (and Google with the Nexus One and Sony with the Xperia X10) over a barrel by moving the mobile data goalposts and dropping it’s monthly mobile data allowance from Unlimited (with a FUP) to 500mb per month after which the bills will get stupid. Vodafone are styling themselves as the natural home of the smartphone. Now there’s a bitter apill to swallow. Personally I think the phone manufacturers lawyers should all get together and advise Vodafone that they have redefined the proposed marketplace with their effective vast hike in tariffs which will prevent users from using the smartphones in the way they were designed to be used, return the bribes and publicly tell Vodafone that the deal’s off and they can get stuffed. Sorry for deviating away from your original subject. :)

    Sounds like AT&T are looking at the Samsung Galaxy S no more, no less.

    btw, there is no information on the Samsung web site.

  • Michael

    There is one part in the article that doesn’t make much sense to me. The Galaxy S has a 1ghz hummingbird samsung arm cortex a8 processor, not 800mhz.

  • Perry

    Actually the Samsung Galaxy S has a 1ghz hummingbird. That is the processor that they were saying can process many more triangles per second than any other phone out there at CTIA.

  • Highland MX5

    May I refer you to this blog for technical information regarding the Galaxy S ?

    http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/samsung-galaxy-s-hummingbird-chip-to-have-3x-gpu-power-of-snapdragon/

    “Apparently the Samsung Galaxy S features their new S5PC110 application processor which was announced last year. This processor contains an ARM Cortex-A8 core paired with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU.”

    The article makes for interesting reading.

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