Samsung Ativ SE, the much anticipated new Windows Phone smartphone from the Korean giant, is now official. Without any major announcement, Verizon has put up the Ativ SE for pre-orders via on its website, which shows a shipping date of 12 April.
The Samsung Ativ SE, as per the Verizon listing, is available for $599.99 (roughly Rs. 35,900) off-contract. The smartphone also comes with a 2-year agreement at $199.99 (roughly Rs. 11,968) with a choice of plans. There is no word as to when the handset, or a variant, will start rolling out to other regions in the world.
The smartphone runs on Windows Phone 8 OS, which we assume, will be updated to the recently announced Windows Phone 8.1 OS update in the coming months. The Samsung Ativ SE features a 5-inch full-HD AMOLED display with pixel density of roughly 440ppi, and a Gorilla Corning Glass 3 screen.
The handset is powered by an unspecified 2.3GHz quad-core processor (presumably a QualcommSnapdragon 800) paired with 2GB of RAM. The Samsung Ativ SE includes a 13-megapixel autofocus camera with flash and can record full-HD (1080p) videos along with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Both cameras can capture 1080p HD videos.
The smartphone comes with 16GB of inbuilt storage that can be expanded up to 64GB via microSD card. Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi and 4G LTE comes under the wireless network connectivity option of Samsung Ativ SE. The handset is backed by a 2600mAh battery capacity which is claimed to run for 20 hours and 20 days under standby mode.
The Samsung Ativ SE measures 137×69.8×8.3 mm and weighs 135.7 grams. It comes with MicrosoftOffice Hub that enables users to work on Microsoft Word and Excel, edit files and sync from the cloud.Xbox Live also comes built-in with the device.
