The smartphone giant has slapped smartphone hardware into a flip phone casing, and it's ready to launch it in Asia sometime (likely) next year. Leaked from TENAA, the Telecom Equipment Certification Center in China, the new device currently goes by the name product name SM-W2016. It looks deceptively like a Samsung Galaxy S6 in a clamshell but don't let that deceive you, there's some quality hardware underneath. The phone will run on Android 5.1.1and has dual 4G capability. It packs a 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 SoC with 3GB RAM, and 64GB of built-in storage. The phone has a 16MP rear cam and a 5MP front camera and, curiously, features two 3.9-inch AMOLED (1280x768) displays.

I suppose having the smaller flip phone is convenient and all that, but it seems Samsung is unwilling to compromise on screen real estate. One display is, as you would expect it, accessible when you flip open the phone, and the other is on the outside of the device, likely to quickly check notifications and the like. Oh, and the flip phone absolute is present; feast your eyes on that ABC/123 T9 keypad. Just thinking about it brings back memories of aching thumbs. On the plus side, the phone does seem to have a mix of metal and glass thrown in there, so maybe this thing will actually turn out looking better than we expect. 

But don't expect to see this baby in our neck of the woods anytime soon, not till we hear an official announcement anyway. It's likely this will remain one of Samsung's many experimental projects and won't see countries other than China and South Korea.