Sprint's Galaxy S II dubbed 'Samsung Epic Touch 4G,' launches in September

By on Aug 2, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Exclusive August 2, 2011

We know we don’t have long to wait before Samsung’s wildly popular Galaxy S II smartphone launches stateside. It’s also a pretty safe bet that the sleek smartphone will reach all four major U.S. carriers considering how popular the original Galaxy S was. Additional details have been slow to surface, but we’ve just been given some preliminary details about one of the four U.S. variants we’ve been waiting for. BGR has learned that Sprint’s version of the slim smartphone will launch as the Samsung Epic Touch 4G. Like its predecessor, the Epic Touch 4G will feature 4G WiMAX connectivity, though as its moniker might suggest, it will lack the QWERTY keyboard found on the original Epic 4G. Additional specs are hardly a mystery — we reviewed the international version of the Galaxy S II back in May. And while we have yet to track down a specific release date for this cutting edge Gingerbread phone, our source did say that it is launching in September. Also of note: Sprint will launch both the BlackBerry Curve 9350 (Sedona) and the Samsung Conquer 4G later this month, possibly as soon as August 21st.

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  • Anonymous

    kinda seems like Sprint is waiting almost a standard 5 weeks for every major phone release…evo 3d jun 24 – photon 4g july 31 and seemingly a epic touch 4g sept 7-8…smart considering most people do purchase new releases within a week of release. Fingers crossed!

  • Anonymous

    As a Samsung Epic 4G owner, I sincerely hope that they’re releasing another Epic with the QWERTY. A large percentage of Epic owners bought the phone for the hardware keyboard and to release its successor as touch-only seems foolish.

  • Anonymous

    As long as it doesn’t have a keyboard I’m getting it.   I really wanted to like the EVO 3D but I’m on my third one and they all lose signal and drop calls where my past 3 Sprint HTC smartphones over the past 8 years never did.   Sad when an 8 year old phone has better signal lock than my fancy new phone does.

    It isn’t just the signal lock that sucks on this phone – it also has wretched call quality.   My clients are now asking me to call them back on a land line since I sound so garbled to them.  

    As much as I was hoping the EVO 3D would be my next long term phone I’m putting this POS up on craigslist and hopefully getting a smartphone that I can use as a phone.

  • Falstafff

    I still think they need to call it:

    The Samsung Master Chief.

  • Taylorwayne1

    On In man bring it on android, call it anything

  • Ash

    Should I wait for the i927 to arrive..EVer??! Or just go with the new S2? 

  • Nickansid

    Why the hell are they not inlcuding a slide out qwerty keybaord, I like having a keybaord its a very important feature and would just be worth staying with the predeccosor the epic. Since its the last hi-end android keyboard phone thru sprint still standing,… anyone know why there phasing them out and taking away our choices

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