Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Pricing Tipped Ahead of Wednesday Launch

While Samsung is all set to launch the Galaxy Note 4 on Wednesday, September 3, the purported pricing of the phablet has been revealed by a European electronics retailer, Media Markt.

According to a report by a Russian website, a representative of retailer Media Markt has tipped that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will be priced at RUB 34,990 (approximately Rs. 56,700) for the Russian market, and will go on sale in late September or early October. The report notes that the new phablet's pricing is the same as it was for the Galaxy Note 3 (Review | Pictures) last year, whereas the Galaxy S5 (Review | Pictures) was priced at RUB 29,990.

On Saturday, a device with model number SM-N910T thought to be the anticipated Galaxy Note 4 was spotted in a User Agent profile on the company's mobile site along with display resolution and a hint of a 64-bit SoC.

The User Agent (UA) profile listing showed that the alleged 'SM-N910T' Galaxy Note 4 features a Quad-HD (1440x2560 pixels) display. It also speculated that the processor powering the smartphone is 64-bit, based on other details in the UA profile.

Earlier, the anticipated Galaxy Note 4 was listed in two variants - SM-N910S and SM-N910C, depending on region - by an Indonesian online retailer. The listing had also included mention of a Quad-HD (1440x2560 pixels) Super AMOLED display offering a pixel density of 515ppi on a 5.7-inch screen; 4GB of RAM; 16GB/ 32GB/ 64GB inbuilt storage variants; expandable storage up to 128GB (via microSD card); Micro-SIM support; 16-megapixel camera with OIS, and Android 4.4.3 KitKat.

The Indonesian Galaxy Note 4 retail listing mentions a 2.5GHz quad-core processor (possibly the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805) variant and an octa-core (Exynos with 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 and four quad-core Cortex-A57 cores) variant. The website had listed the smartphone for IDR 9,499,000, which translates to roughly Rs. 50,000.