Rendering of Samsung GALAXY Note shows AT&T branding

Recently, we passed along the speculation that the big screened Samsung GALAXY Notewill make its U.S. launch through AT&T. The Stateside variant of the device is allegedly coming with LTE connectivity and an NFC chip. Just before the books closed on 2011, SamMobile received a picture of a rendering for the SGH-I717 which is the U.S. version of the Samsung GALAXY Note, and on top of the device was the famous AT&T logo.

Outside of the LTE connectivity and the NFC chip, the specs between the already launched overseas model and the U.S. model are supposed to be the same including the 5.29 inch WXGA Super AMOLED screen and the dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8660 processor driving the GALAXY Note. 1GB of RAM is aboard with 32GB of native storage included. That can be pumped up to as much as 64GB using a microSD card. The 8MP camera on back has AF and captures video at 1080p (at 30fps). The front-facing camera weighs in at 2MP and is great for self-portraits and video chat.

We could see the AT&T model of the Samsung GALAXY Note as soon as the CES this month. One interesting note (no pun intended) is that the current speculation has the device launching with Android 2.3 as an update is expected to come down the road bringing Android 4.0 for the unit.

source: SamMobile via AndroidCentral