Move over Galaxy Nexus: Samsung's heir apparent to the Samsung Galaxy S II is said to be arriving in May, with quad-core power and 4G support jammed into a sleek 7mm form factor.
Following on from the recent announcement that Samsung would not be unveiling its eagerly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III at this month's Mobile World Congress, reports suggest the Galaxy S II's successor will now be launched in May and will measure a vanishing 7mm in thickness. Last week the company disappointed many in the Android smartphone community when it officially denied that the Galaxy S III would be on show at MWC 2012, saying the "successor to the Galaxy S II smartphone will be unveiled at a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer to commercial availability of the product."
Fan-made concept design of what the Samsung Galaxy S III might end up looking like.
According to South Korean tech news portal
ETNews however, the release is actually set for May, although when we'll see the device in Australia remains unclear. More exciting though is the Galaxy S III's rumoured spec sheet: shaving off 1.5mm from its predecessor's already trim girth, the S III is said to measure just 7mm thick, and within this diminished casing it's expected to pack in a quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, 4G support, 8MP/2MP rear/front-facing cameras and a Super AMOLED Plus display, all running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. If the May release date is correct, this will see the Galaxy S III's launch arriving just shy of the iPhone 5, currently tipped for June or July. If that's too far away for you, the company is also expected to be unveiling a buffed-up version of the S II at Mobile World Congress later in the month (which may or may not feature both a 1.5GHz CPU and 4G connectivity).
