I read from some medias saying that Samsung's Berlin event will be mainly about their new Wave 3 phone using BADA 2.0 OS. This makes me a little worried. Hopefully that's not all they announce there.
Well hopefully they will include other handsets that were mentioned in the same leaked roadmap that had the BADA phones in it. Yes, Samsung came out and said that the details were not accurate in the leak, but the fact that they've never come out to address a leak before tells me that there is more than a grain of truth in it. Among the phones mentioned in the roadmap is the I9250, which is rumored to be the Prime since it has a huge screen and is running Ice Cream Sandwich.
Edit: I'm positive that the Wave 3 phone will be unveiled, now that I think about it, since the promo has a shot of ocean waves in it. I just hope that it's not the ONLY thing. . .
I think the Berlin event will probably be their version of our event on August 29th.
I doubt it. The 29th event will be, I'm sure, exclusively SGSII related, given that the invitation has a galaxy in the background and the "II" on the bottom half of the page. There's no reason to hold an SGSII event in a continent where it's been available since the Spring. The tagline for the Berlin event is "Something BIG is coming". It might be wishful thinking, but hopefully they are talking about the big screen on the Prime, or whatever I9250 turns out to be. Whatever it is, it's going to be a phone, judging by their ad with people walking around holding giant golden-lighted things up to their ears.
IMO, we aren't getting the Nexus Prime in early October. I would think more likely Thanksgiving time or December. Maybe the Prime will hit someone like T-Mobile in October, but not likely Verizon. Would love it if it did, though!
I'm worried about this, too. But the fact that ICS has been long-rumored to be coming in October, that means SOMETHING good is coming in around that time frame. Google wouldn't release 4.0 on an existing device. The easiest thing to imagine is that they would release it on their own, pure-android handset so that they can show it off as it's supposed to be. Prime fits the bill. The only thing, in my opinion, that derails an October launch of Prime is if the ICS rumors of October release are false, which they might very well be. Still, I can't see it delaying past Black Friday.
The biggest question, of course, is whether or not it's coming to Verizon. I think it's 50/50, although the sightings of a huge Samsung phone at Verizon HQ is very promising, and I can't imagine why Google wouldn't want to release an LTE phone, especially if it hopes to go head to head against iPhone, which is most likely coming out in October.
It all adds up. But it's a house of cards.