We’ve been excitedly awaiting the launch of Samsung Galaxy S3, but sadly it appears that it’s a good few months off. Rather than unveiling the quad-core beast at Mobile World Congress at the end of February, as it did its predecessor last year, the Korean gadget giant has announced that “the successor to the Galaxy S2 smartphone will be unveiled at a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer to commercial availability of the product.”
Boo and hiss, Samsung. We’d been hoping that the Galaxy S3 would get a MWC reveal and an April launch, but now it seems that we won’t be getting our mitts on the (presumably) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-rocking handset until the summer.
The Samsung Galaxy S2 went on sale in the UK and Europe in April 2012, but appeared much later in the US: Samsung likely had to spend months preparing the different versions for each of the US networks. It seems Samsung doesn’t want to keep Americans waiting this time, and would prefer to launch its new flagship phone, arguably the only real iPhone competitor, globally simultaneously.
Samsung will of course be launching other products at MWC, probably a few Android phones among them, but it could be that it’s holding back the S3 to more closely compete with the iPhone 5, which should arrive this summer. Unless Apple keeps that until October, of course, as it did with the iPhone 4S last year.
In the meantime, take a gander at our recent Samsung Galaxy S3 rumour round-up – and do try not to salivate too much.
(Via TechRadar)
