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Samsung Corby II gets official, colorful
So, Samsung's own leak of its Corby II from last month was spot-on -- no surprise there, we suppose. Like the original Corby, the S3850 Corby II is all about doing full touch in a cheap, fun, colorful way, featuring a 3.14-inch QVGA display, a 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion up to 16GB, and quadband EDGE data; in other words, you're not going to set any browsing speed records with this one. Look for it to launch in Germany toward the end of the month with follow-on releases coming in the CIS, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other parts of Europe (in other words, pretty much everywhere except North America).
Samsung Corby II breaks cover thanks to... Samsung
Admittedly, this isn't the largest nor the most detailed picture we've ever gotten out of a leak, but at least it's something. A Google cached version of Samsung's official user agent browser shows an entry for a Corby II model, the successor to 2009's Corby -- a cheap, colorful full touchscreen device intended to do business in places where full-fledged smartphones could not. It's identified as the S3850, the S3850L, and the S3853, presumably for different markets around the world with different radio and software requirements, but beyond that, very little is known; if we had to guess, we'll probably get full disclosure on this one at MWC in a few days' time.
