Samsung's 1.5 GHz Dual-Core, 4.5-in. Monster Gets Official

From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. is the world's leading seller of handsets on the world's leading smartphone operating system -- Android OS. While that has made it a tempting legal target to competitors, it has also been a financial boon to the South Korean electronics giant.

At the IFA 2012 trade show in Berlin this weekend, Samsung had some big news for Android fans pulling the wraps of refreshes to two familiar product lines.

The first new model is an improved model of the Samsung Galaxy S II. The new model continues the dangerous game of mobile brinksmanship, upping its armaments to including a whopping 4.5-inch touch-screen display (up from 4.27 in.). There's no word on the resolution, yet -- hopefully Samsung will look to match Apple's 960x640 iPhone 4 resolution, which currently is the highest resolution smartphone on the U.S. market.

Also new is a higher clocked 1.5 GHz dual-core, likely a clocked up Exynos system-on-a-chip, Samsung's in-house ARM Cortex A9 design. Samsung also did not announce whether the width would change from the previously announced, industry-leading 8.49 mm.

The new model sports an LTE modem, meaning that it will likely hit America's Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ). It will launch beside its (presumably) smaller-screen, slower-CPU Galaxy S II brethren -- the HSPA+ Samsung Hercules and the LTE Samsung Epic 4G Touch (names unconfirmed). The Hercules is rumored to get at least the display bump as well -- no word yet on the Epic 4G Touch.

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