The Samsung Galaxy S II Plus, the smartphone the South Korean giant is said to be unveiling at this month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in place of the Galaxy S III, will be a skinny white boy.

Well, if a picture posted by Russian mobile phone blogger Eldar Murtazin [1] on Twitter last night is anything to go by, it will be.

The S II Plus is being called Samsung's 'Galaxy 4S' [3] - a reference to its role as a stand-in for the S III, seen as the equivalent of the Apple iPhone 5 that wasn't launched last Autumn as expected.

The pic shows nothing that identifies the phone specifically as the S II Plus, and there are already loud cries that the snap is just a bit of Photoshoppery.

Indeed, there are some distortions on the handset's sides the suggest someone has been tinkering with the image. Well, there it is - you decide.

The S II Plus hit the headlines yesterday when it appeared in an online collection of Android benchmark results. Samsung admitted earlier this week that the Galaxy S III will not debut at MWC [4]. ®

Links

1. https://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/165090992037429248/photo/1
2. https://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/165090992037429248/photo/1
3. http://www.reghardware.com/2012/02/02/samsung_galaxy_s_3_stand_in_spied_in_benchmark_app_results/
4. http://www.reghardware.com/2012/02/01/samsung_says_the_galaxy_s_3_will_not_debut_at_mobile_world_congress/

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