The phone runs under the Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform

Jul 4, 2012 20:11 GMT  ·  By

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just made official a new smartphone for the Taiwanese market, the Galaxy Beam handset that was introduced to the world back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

After several months of complete silence, the smartphone emerged in Taiwan today, where it will become available for purchase with a price tag of NT$ 16,900 attached to it (around $566 / €450)

The smartphone packs a 4-inch touchscreen display that can deliver a 480 × 800 pixel resolution, along with a dual-core 1 GHz application processor, and 768 MB of RAM.

Moreover, the phone sports a 5-megapixel photo snapper on the back, along with a 1.3MP front camera, 8 GB of internal memory, microSD memory card slot, and a 2,000 mAh battery.

Samsung’s Galaxy Beam was launched with Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board and will hit shelves in mid-July.