Galaxy S4 Mini Release Date Scheduled for June 20

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The release date for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini will fall somewhere around June 20.

The company scheduled an event in London where the device will be unveiled, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Other Galaxy and Windows ATIV products will also be introduced on that date.

The publication claims to have received this information from a person with knowledge of the matter. The event will take place at London's Earl's Court exhibition center. Samsung is sure to bring out many new exciting devices there.

A photograph displaying a smartphone that is said to be the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini leaked onto the internet earlier this month. The handset in the picture looks almost identical to its big brother, but it has a black body. The specifications are also quite different as the smaller version is less powerful.

Specifications for the device include an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch-focus, and face detection. The smaller version of the flagship is expected to launch shortly the regular version, which was released in April.

Other rumored specs for the handset include a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD 960 x 540 display with a pixel density of 256 ppi. It will also come with a 1.6GHz dual-core processor and will run Android 4.2.2, JellyBean, according to a report from SamMobile.

The Galaxy S4 comes with a Full HD 1080p display, 13-megapixel camera and either a quad-core or octa-core processor depending on the region it is released in.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is expected to launch in both LTE and dual SIM versions.

The LTE and single SIM versions have been appearing all over the official Samsung website. The model number for the single SIM version is GT-i9190, while the number for the LTE edition is i9195. The model number for the dual SIM version is GT-i9192.