Samsung Quietly Announces “Black Edition” S4 And S4 Mini

Samsung has quietly released an ever so slightly updated version of their uber popular Galaxy S4 and S4 Mini.  The new “Black Edition” Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S4 Mini showed up on Samsung’s Russian website which would seem to indicate that these devices will debut in Russia.  Other counties could potentially get these slightly altered devices in the future but we’ll have to wait and see.

So what’s different?  Well not much at all actually.  The internals (processor, camera, memory, screen, etc.) are exactly the same.  The back plate, however, has been switched up a tiny bit.  The new “Black Edition” devices feature the same faux leather back plate that can currently be found on the Galaxy Note 3.  The front of the device also appears to be a solid black rather than the kind of glimmer-y/texture-y front of the originals.

With the S5 on the horizon, it seems like a rather strange move by Samsung; but given that they’re at the top of the mobile world right now, can we really question their tactics?

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