I’m fairly sure that if you have been patiently awaiting the release of Samsung’s first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, you will know that the handset has seen some annoying delays in getting our into the mobile space. However, recently we reported that both Austria and then Canada would soon be seeing the Samsung Ativ S become available. Now we have a little bit of release information for those Windows Phone fans over here in the United Kingdom.
It you are a Brit that has been dying to get your hands on the Samsung Ativ S, you just might like to learn that you will be able to purchase the Windows Phone 8 smartphone as an unlocked and SIM free smartphone from Clove as of tomorrow the 14th of December.
The first stock of the Samsung Ativ S is scheduled to hit Clove as of Friday and commands a price tag of £442.80 including VAT, so if you wish to pick up the unlocked and SIM free Ativ S from Clove you might like to grab it quickly as there is no word on just how many of these devices will be in that first available stock.
Furthermore, if you have also been waiting for Sammy’s first Windows RT slate to become available, the Clove will also have the Samsung Ativ Tab up for sale as of Friday the 14th of December, again as an unlocked device, and the Windows slate commands a price tag of £538.80 including VAT.
Here’s a quick reminder of what the Samsung Ativ Tab has to offer customers, a 10.1-inch 1368 x 768 HD touch screen, a 5 megapixel rear facing auto-focus camera with LED flash, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, WiFI-Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, a 1.5GHz dual core processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB internal memory, microSD expansion up to 64GB, microHDMI, USB 2.0, a 3.5mm jack, A-GPS, IE 10, Microsoft Office, Bing Search, Bing Maps, SkyDrive, NFC, an 8200mAh Li-ion battery, and Windows RT.
As for the Samsung Ativ S, the device offers a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD touch screen, a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 dual core processor, an 8 megapixel rear facing auto-focus camera with LED flash, a 1.9 megapixel front facing snapper, 1GB RAM,16GB or 32GB internal storage, microSD expansion up to 32GB, and of course Windows Phone 8 OS.
So there you have it, both Sammy devices should become available as of tomorrow, will any of out UK readers be purchasing either the Samsung Ativ S or Samsung Ativ Tab?