The SM-G9298 flip phone was spotted receiving TENAA certification in May. Since then, the rumor mill has been claiming that Samsung’s clamshell would debut soon. At the end of the previous month, Samsung confirmed that the SM-G9298 would be launching on Aug. 3. The day has arrived and the South Korean company has unveiled the Samsung SM-G9298 flip phone as a successor of the SM-G9198 flip phone that had launched in 2015. The translated text from the Samsung’s Chinese site states that the phone is called World Leading Flagship 8.

The Samsung SM-G9298 has an internal S-AMOLED full HD screen of 4.2 inches. Its external S-AMOLED full HD screen is also of 4.2 inches. It is powered by Snapdragon 820 chipset and 4 GB of RAM. It has an internal storage of 64 GB and the available space for the user is 51.7 GB. It is a dual SIM phone with a hybrid SIM slot that allows users to use either a SIM card or microSD card on the second slot. it is loaded with plenty of Samsung apps including the Samsung Pay and some other apps like Weibo, WeChat, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

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The rear side of the Samsung SM-G9298 features a f/1.7 aperture 12-megapixel camera that is coupled with an LED flash and it also supports UHD 4K resolution video shooting. The frontside of the clamshell features a 5-megapixel f/1.9 aperture lens. Below the rear camera is the fingerprint sensor.

Some of the other sensors present on the phone include a heart rate sensor, a pressure sensor, a hall sensor and some other usual sensors. It also features a hotkey that can be configured according to preference of the user. The screen of the phone also supports Always-on Display.

For connectivity, the SM-G9298 is enabled with features like microUSB 2.0, v4.1 Bluetooth, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi 802.11ac. It is driven by a 2,300mAh battery that carries support for wireless charging. The clamshell phone measures 130.2 x 62.6 x 15.9 mm and its weight is 235 grams. It is built with aviation-grade aluminum alloy.

As of this writing, it seems that the smartphone may not be available outside of China. In China, the Samsung SM-G9298 will be sold through China Mobile. There is no information available on the pricing and release date of Samsung SM-G9298.

Samsung is also rumored to be working on a successor phone for Samsung W2017 clamshell. it is speculated to launch as Samsung W2018 and is rumored to be packed with Snapdragon 835 chipset, 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage.

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Samsung has officially confirmed by releasing a media invitation that it will be launching a new flip phone in collaboration with China Mobile on Aug. 3 starting at 4 PM local time. The exact name of the smartphone is not known, but by looking at the image of the flip phone in the media invitation, it can be understood that Samsung will be debuting the SM-G9298 flip phone that had first appeared on TENAA. According to a Chinese leakster, this flip phone will be launched as Samsung Beyond the world8. Sounds like a weird name!

The official name of the smartphone will be revealed on Aug. 3. The leakster has claimed this phone is not the SM-W2018 flip phone that is expected to come with flagship specs like Snapdragon 835, 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. The leakster has revealed an image to confirm SM-G9298 and SM-W2018 are two different smartphones. In the below image, the SM-W2018 can be seen kept wrapped at a shopfront alongside an image of its predecessor phone, the SM-W2017.

A couple of live photos of SM-G9298 have appeared just before its official. It is the same smartphone that had appeared in leaked render some time ago. According to the TENNA listing of SM-G9298, it will feature an outer S-AMOLED display of 4.2 inches that will support full HD resolution. One of the live images of the phone suggests that this screen will support Always-on Display feature. The inner screen of this phone will be of 4.2 inches and it will also support full HD resolution.

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The SM-G9298 will be powered by Snapdragon 821 chipset and 4 GB of RAM. The internal storage of this flip phone will be 64 GB. It will also feature a microSD card slot.Its rear facing camera will be of 12-megapixel and its front-facing shooter will be of 5-megapixel.  The fingerprint scanner of the phone is placed below the rear camera.

It will be running on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow OS. It will be coming with a 2,300mAh battery. It measures 127.7 x 61.4 x 15.87 and its weigh is 234 grams. Since it is launched by Samsung in partnership with China Mobile, it goes without saying that China will surely receive it. however, there is no confirmation on other markets that will be receiving the SM-G9298 flip phone. The SM-G9289 is said to be successor of the SM-9198 flip phone from 2015 that powered with Snapdragon 808 chipset.

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This is not the foldable display flip phone Samsung is working on but the Samsung SM-G9298 is an interesting device too. It is a flip phone with two screens. One 4.2” display when the phone is shut and another 4.2” screen when you flip it open. It has been spotted on TENAA and we get to see its full specification details.

The Samsung SM-G9298 improves on the flip phones of old by featuring two 4.2-inch FHD AMOLED displays on both sides along with the traditional alphanumeric keypad.

It is powered by a quad-core processor clocked at 2.15GHz which is definitely the Snapdragon 820 processor. Previous reports had hinted at it featuring the Snapdragon 821 but it appears Samsung still has SD820 chips it needs to clear out.

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There is 4GB of RAM, 64GB of built-in storage and support for microSD cards of up to 256GB. The SM-G9298 has a 12MP rear camera and a 5MP front facing camera. It runs Android 6.0 and draws juice from a 2300mAh battery. We have doubts about the battery but since only one screen can be used at a particular time, it might not be that bad.

The clamshell phone weighs 234g and measures 127.7 × 61.4 × 15.87 (mm). It has dual SIM support and appears to sport a fingerprint scanner just below the rear camera. It is hard to make out because of the phone’s black color.

The SM-G9298 will most likely launch as the Galaxy Folder 3 but we have no idea when.

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