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Just before midnight last night (US East Coast Time), images of what is expected to be T-Mobile's riff on the Samsung Galaxy S II hit the web. For anyone not familiar, Samsung's approach is to take a reference design smartphone and then pump out many variants for specific carriers. The company will then even leverage that design into its tablet-sized devices. Last year's Samsung Galaxy spurned Samsung on to become one of the tops in smartphone sales, and they look to attempt the same thing this year with their Galaxy S II design.

The pics display a lot of design touches reminiscent of the Samsung Nexus S 4G, which I recently picked up from Sprint. The images show the same lipped-edge on the back of the phone as the Nexus S. Also clearly evident is a certain degree of glass curvature, and that effect is possibly similar to the curved-glass face also on the Nexus S 4G. Other leaked images do not show the curve as prominently, so it is tough to tell right now just what aesthetic touches have been placed on the display itself.

The Galaxy S II is expected to show up on each of the major US carriers this fall in unique variants. Many Samsung Android smartphones, including the Nexus S 4G, are going for $99 on-contract, but you can expect the Galaxy S II to go for the more standard $199 for debuting smartphones. Of course, Verizon has stuck it to customers in the past with $299 smartphone debuts, running against the industry grain of releasing new smartphones for $100 less, so the other flavors of the Galaxy S II may go for more. T-Mobile customers should be pretty confident that the phone will show up for them wearing a $199 price-tag, however.

Source: Slashgear

Images via: TMoNews