Samsung Galaxy SL drops AMOLED for Super Clear LCD, Hummingbird for OMAP3

You’re Samsung, and you want to make sure you have enough still-limited S-AMOLED displays for the upcoming Galaxy S 2 , but you don’t want to discontinue the original Galaxy S. What to do? Well, you could always take a cue from the Galaxy S-based Russian Nexus S and use an LCD instead– and so here we have the Galaxy SL GT-i9003, which is destined to hit the Middle East and Asia with both a Super Clear LCD and a processor swap from Sammy’s Humingbird to a 1GHz TI OMAP 3630, along with a bump in thickness and weight due to a slightly larger battery. Apart from that it’s pretty much just a Galaxy S, all the way down to the maddening stagnation on Android 2.2 — but hey, give us 2.3 (or even 3.0) on the Galaxy S 2 and we’ll be all smiles and giggles. Update: BestBoyz got a Vodafone price list that seems to indicate the the SL will hit Germany as well. Achtung, AMOLED fans! Samsung Galaxy SL drops AMOLED for Super Clear LCD, Hummingbird for OMAP3 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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