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Samsung working on 3GB 'buttonless' smartphone
October 12, 2012 10:59am

Samsung Electronics is working on a "buttonless" smartphone that may have a whopping three gigabytes of internal memory, an enthusiast site reported.

Citing a source, fan site SamMobile said the huge amount of random access memory may hint at powerful software in the upcoming device.

"The question remains, why would you need 3GB of RAM when 1GB of RAM should be enough? Samsung ... continues working on improving their software and it could be that they have been working on a feature were you actually need such amount of RAM," it said.

It also said the Korea-based tech giant is doing some tests to make a "transition" to go buttonless.

Photos posted on the site indicated two buttonless devices with "3Gb RAM" stickers on them.

"As you can see this ... device is in early prototype stage but we believe that this is just a sneak pe(e)k of what we will see in 2013 from Samsung," it said.

A separate article on tech site Mashable said it was unclear if the device could be the Samsung Galaxy S IV or the next Galaxy Nexus.

"However, it’s still not clear what the purpose of that huge amount of memory is; don’t get us wrong, the more RAM the better, but with Android in its current stage even 1GB is more than enough (and the SGSIII as well as the SGNII are just now getting 2GB as standard)," it said. — TJD, GMA News