Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Premier smartphone in Taiwan, at a price of around $549 dollars or 14,900 Taiwanese dollars, a little lower than when it was first announced back in October.

ePrice Taiwan was at the event for the Galaxy Premier introduction, (see screenshot below from ePrice). The new smartphone has a grey version, alongside the white one that was initially presented by Samsung. The white Galaxy Premier will be available in Taiwan starting this month, while the grey version is going to be released in February. Most probably, European ones will be available this month.

Full specs for the Galaxy Permier, looks like a smaller version of the Galaxy S3, weighs 130 grams. Its features include a 4.65 inch Super AMOLED display with 1280 x 720 pixels, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the latest TouchWiz UI, NFC, HSPA, dual band Wi-Fi, GPS with Glonass, Bluetooth 4.0, dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP 4470 processor, 8MP rear camera with 1080p video recording and LED flash, 1.9MP front-facing camera, 1GB of RAM, 8GB / 16GB of internal memory, support for MicroSD cards, and a 2,100 mAh battery.

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According to a popular South Korean website, Samsung will be bringing the Samsung Galaxy Premier to South Korea (Model: SHV-E220) with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor Exynos 4412, this was believed to be what was rumored to be called Samsung Galaxy Pop.  Based on the facts that they have the same processor, and many other similiar features.

The Galaxy Premier uses a 4.65" HD Super AMOLED Display, Android 4.1.2 OS with new TouchWiz UI, 3G/LTE, DMB, 8 0r 16GB internal memory, 8MP and 2MP cameras and 2100mAh battery. The phone is expected to launch on SKT, KT and LG U+.

• Model: SHV-E220
• Code Name: Galaxy POP
• Display : 4.65 inch HD (1280*720) Super-Amoled
• CPU / GPU : Eynose4412 Quadcore 1.4Ghz / Mali
• OS : Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
• Launcher : Touchwiz 5.0
• Network : 3G / LTE
• RAM : 1GB 
• ROM : 8G or 16G
• Battery : 2100mAh