AT&T announced the launch of Samsung Galaxy Appeal, the first smartphone offered with the carrier’s pre-paid GoPhone service. The Appeal is a side-slider QWERTY smartphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. As an entry-level device, it is boosted by a Qualcomm MSM7225A 800MHz processor, 512MB RAM. According to Samsung, the handset’s plastic parts are made of 80-percent recycled material and it ships with reduced packaging material, cutting back on paper usage.

Finally, Samsung unveiled its long-waited, long-rumored flagship Galaxy S III smartphone. According to the phone maker, the phone is “designed for humans and inspired by nature,” which “recognizes your voice, understands your intention, and lets you share a moment instantly and easily”. Unlike the Galaxy S II with a more rectangular shape, the third generation of Galaxy S has a pebble-like shape and looks a bit like the Galaxy Nexus.

As Samsung is announcing its new Galaxy S III smartphone on 3 May at 7PM at its Unpacked 2012 event in London, lets have a round-up of rumors about the company’s next flagship. There are several leaked shots of the device, and seems there will be more than one version of the phone with different designs. Some shots indicates a device with a big home button in the middle with menu and back buttons on each of two sides underneath a big touchscreen, while some others show a Galaxy S II-like unit with no physical buttons.

Verizon has released the LTE 4G-capable Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Android tablet. The tablet supports Verizon’s LET 4G as well as CDMA EVDO 3G mobile networks and is the world’s thinnest 4G LTE tablet. It comes with a 7.7-inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen with 1280×800 WXGA resolution, a 3 Megapixel main camera with LED flash and 720p video recording, and a 2 Megapixel front camera for video calls. The 4G tablet runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS on a 1.4GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos 4210 processor.

China Telecom is launching the Samsung Galaxy S II DUOS SCH-i929, a dual-network variant of the Galaxy S II. The phone supports both CDMA EVDO Rev.A and GSM mobile networks and is capable of dual-standby. The i929 is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB RAM and runs Android 2.3 with TouchWiz 4.0 user interface.

Samsung brings a new affordable Galaxy smartphone, the Galaxy Pocket running Android 2.3 OS. The entry-level handset boasts a 823Mhz processor and comes with 3GB user memory. It features a 2.8-inch LCD 240×320 touchscreen, a 2 Megapixel fixed focus camera, A-GPS support, Bluetooth 3.0, FM radio and WiFi 802.11b/g/n connectivity.

Samsung introduces its new Galaxy S WiFi 4.2, an Android media player intended to deliver powerful gaming on the go, joining the Galaxy S WiFi 3.6, 4.0 and 5.0 players. The new 4.2-inch PMP is powered by a 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. It features the SoundAlive audio system for enhanced gaming experience. It comes pre-loaded with Need For Speed Hot Pursuit game.

Samsung announced the new Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, which is basically a Note-ized version of the Galaxy Tab 2.0 10.1. To be a Note, the tablet comes with S Pen stylus and the S Note tool that lets combine notes or sketches together with web content, images and other digital media into your own personalized storyboards. The tablet comes with various ready-to-use templates such as meeting minutes, recipe, cards, diary, magazine and more, and is able to digitize hand-drawn geometric shapes using the Shape Match function, which helps users to create more organized idea sketches and storyboards.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

Samsung announced its tablet line-up for 2012, the Galaxy Tab 2 series that comes in 7-inch and 10.1-inch versions. In fact, the company has announced the 7-inch model two week before. Except for the screen size and dimension, the 7.0 and 10.1 are just the same. Both of them are powered by 1Ghz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM, and will be shipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Two years before, Samsung bought the first Galaxy Beam, which was the first Android projector phone at that time. This year, at the MWC 2012, Samsung announced its newest projector phone, the dual-core Galaxy Beam smartphone which is the world’s slimmest of its kind. This newly announced, refreshed, dual-core Gaalxy Beam has integrated projector with 15 lumens brightness to deliver HD images of up to 50-inch wide.