Samsung Galaxy S and the "SGH-i897"

Perhaps some of you guys have heard about the "SGH-i897"

It's a Samsung phone with what is essentially the exact same specifications as the Samsung Galaxy S. Strangely though, the leaked pictures of the phone don't look like the Galaxy S.

Check out both of these articles and decide for yourself; is the SGH-i897 just the Samsung Galaxy S for AT&T paired up with some leaked images of the wrong device, is it a version of the Galaxy S with a new look, or are they completely different devices?

One thing I can tell you is that the theories of a Snapdragon processor are probably just coming from people who don't know that Samsung has their own 1 GHz CPU.

Pictures of the mystery device in the second link.

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/05/25/samsung-i897-sounding-galaxy/

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/05/27/exclusive-samsung-i897-wild-att/

I googled sgh-i897 and found this link to the Bluetooth organization that has a report referencing the samsung i897,, way to techie for me but maybe someone can get something out of it.. May be something !!  I am in California on at&t and really want this phone, without being messed up by at&t.

Wow, not sure how I missed that... my apologies!

No, but I should have continued your thread. Credit where it's due and all that. But, since I've already got my ball rolling... :p

Check out this rumor: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/01/att-picking-up-htc-aria-samsung-eternity-ii-samsung-captivate/

It says a device called the "Samsung Captivate" with the model # i897 will be coming to AT&T soon. Pair this with other rumors that the Galaxy S is about to launch in multiple international markets in June or July, and it seems to indicate that the Samsung Galaxy S and the "Captivate" / i897 are very closely related.

Oh, I forgot to mention. At least one site talked about the fact that the i897 will differ from the Galaxy S in at least one way that is already known (apart from cosmetics): It will have 2GB of storage instead of 8 or 16GB.

It makes me sad.

If the i897 has 2GB of application RAM, that would be truly unprecedented. The best I've seen is around 768MB on the incredible. Most are in the 256-512MB range.

I was mistaken then. Still, I would be very surprised to see 2GB of application memory in a phone at this point.

I can't say for certain that is correct.  But I do recall reading this in the last few days.  Unfortunately I didn't link it, and I can't remember exactly where I read it.  But then again, they keep saying it will have a Snapdragon CPU too.  And as has been stated here previously, that makes absolutely no sense at all.  So the RAM numbers could be wrong too.