Pictures have leaked showing a Samsung prototype which is alleged to be the Galaxy Note 3 and could show a new design language from the Korean manufacturer.
Rumours have been circulating that Samsung is considering new materials for its next Galaxy Note model and subsequent devices, but these new pictures show a very different shape too.
The pictures come courtesy of Twitter source @evleaks, which has proven largely reliable in the past, but has also made a few blunders. Understandably, there are commentators saying the pictures show nothing more than a development shell for the hardware designed deliberately to be different from the true design in order to throw people off the scent.
It’s not out of the question, but at the same time there are both black and white versions pictured in the leak – seems a bit weird to go to the effort of making different coloured decoys to us.
Regardless, what we’re looking at is a very angular and sharp design. We can see the display isn’t edge-to-edge but the front panel does sit inside a surround which appears to come up around the outer edge and gives the impressions of a very thin bezel. There’s also a physical home key which is oddly floating in the middle of the bottom panel.
Looking closely, it appears there’s also a slot in the bottom edge which looks similar to the S-Pen stylus slot on previous Galaxy Note models. This would imply that whether this is a decoy chassis or not, we’re looking at the Galaxy Note 3 in some form or other.
Even if this is a decoy shell, we really like the super-thin bezel design despite the fact it’s an illusion and hope that idea makes it into the final model whether it’s curvy or angular, plastic or metal.
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