Samsung SM-W2018 is an upcoming flip phone from the company that is slated to get announced on Dec. 1. The flagship flip phone has now appeared in real skin in freshly leaked photos and video.

The South Korean company has been releasing W-series phones for raising charity funds since the past 10 years. It has already confirmed that it will be debuting the SM-W2018 phone on Dec. 1. The rumor mill has revealed that the upcoming Samsung SM-W2018 will be coming with flagship specifications.

Since the SM-W2018 is a flip phone, it has an outer display panel as well as an inner screen. Speculations have it that the flagship flip phone features a pair of 4.2-inch display that carries support for 1920 x 1080 pixels. The newly leaked images and video of the SM-W2018 show the flip phone in gold finish.

The Snapdragon 835 chipset is speculated to power the W2018 with 6 GB of RAM. It is likely to feature an internal storage of 128 GB. A Chinese tipster has recently claimed that the SM-W2018 may house an industry first f/1.5 aperture rear camera of 12-megapixel. For snapping selfies, it is expected to feature a 5-megapixel frontal camera. The smartphone is pegged to come preinstalled with Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS.

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The fingerprint reader is placed alongside the rear camera on the back panel of the Samsung SM-W2018. It is also rumored to feature an iris scanner and a dedicated button for accessing Bixby assistant. It is likely to house a 2,300mAh battery.

there is no confirmation whether the smartphone would be made available outside of China. The SM-W2018 is expected to arrive as a successor of Snapdragon 820 powered SM-W2017 flip phone from last year. As of this writing, there is no information available on the price tag of Samsung SM-W2018.

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Samsung is one of the few companies that still makes flip phones. This year, it launched the SM-G9298 flip phone in China, but another one called the SM-W2018 is rumored to launch in November. The clam-shell phones are sort of a China exclusive and reports say the W2018 will be available on China Unicom.

The SM-W2018 will sport dual 4.2-inch FHD displays. Sammobile says it will have a Snapdragon 835 processor but there are reports of it coming with a Snapdragon 821 SoC too. RAM is 4GB and storage is 64GB.

For the cameras, the SM-W2018 will have a 12MP rear camera and a 5MP front facing camera. Battery capacity is put at 2300mAh. However, the W2018 is rumored to have a price tag as high as $2000 when it launches.

If you still want a flip phone but you are not willing to shell out so much, the VKWorld T2 Plus billed to launch this month is a better alternative. It will have dual 4.2-inch screens too but won’t have FHD resolutions. It’s frame is also said to be made of titanium.

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There will be two models available and price for the base model is put at under $200. While we don’t know the price of the high-end model, it sure as hell shouldn’t cost more than $500.

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Samsung SM-G9298 is the rumored flip phone from the South Korean company that is expected to arrive with flagship specifications. A leaked render of the smartphone has appeared to reveal its design from all sides. What cannot be seen in the leaked image is the inner display and the keypad of the SM-G9298.

The leaked render of the SM-G9298 suggests that its left side features a volume rocker and on the right side is the Power button. The backside of the phone features a camera that is coupled with a LED flash. The small portion below the rear camera could be its fingerprint reader. The bottom side of the SM-G9298 features an external speaker and a USB-C port.

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A Chinese leakster had revealed in the previous week that the SM-W2018 would be a flagship smartphone as it would be powered by Snapdragon 835 chipset. He added that the SD 835 chipset is supported by 6 GB of RAM and internal storage of 64 GB. It is expected to carry support for Samsung Pay and wireless charging.

However, when the Samsung SM-W2018 had appeared on TENAA in May, it appeared as a minor upgrade over of SM-2017 from last year that came with specs like Snapdragon 820, 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. The TENAA listing of SM-W2018 had revealed that its inner and outer displays of 4.2 inches. The Chinese regulatory body also revealed that the phone features Snapdragon 821 AB chipset and 4 GB of RAM. The other specs of the phone included 64 GB of storage, 12-megapixel main camera, a 5-megapixel selfie snapper and a 2,300mAh battery. According to the leakster, the SM-W2018 and SM-G9298 are two different flip phones from Samsung.

The Samsung SM-G9298 may launch as Samsung Beyond the world 8 (whatever that means!), claims the Chinese leakster who has leaked the above image of Twitter.  However, there is no information on the specifications  of the phone. The Samsung SM-G9298 has also been certified by FCC and Wi-Fi Alliance in May. There is no information available on the release date of the SM-G9298. However, since it has received several certifications required for launch, its arrival seems to be close at hand.

As far as Samsung SM-W2018 is concerned, it has only cleared TENAA certification in China. It is expected to arrive with an expensive price tag. According to the leakster, the W series phones from Samsung carry expensive pricing because the revenue generated by these phones are donated to the charity.

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