Vodafone accidentally unveils metal smartphone with large battery

Provider Vodafone has mistakenly published pictures and descriptions of its new Smart 8 series of smartphones. The provider has submitted the devices for a design award, which put them in the public eye.

The most striking of the four Smart 8 devices is the Smart Ultra 8, which has a metal housing with plastic elements on the top and bottom. The description mentions a large battery in the housing.

Vodafone will also come with a Smart Platinum 8 Mini. Despite the name, the device has a full HD screen with a diagonal of 5.2 “, so it is probably not a smartphone as ‘mini’ as Sony’s Compact series or the Mini variants of Galaxy S-series. devices from several years ago.The Platinum 8 Mini has metal sides and a glass back.

In addition to these two, Vodafone submitted the Smart Platinum 8 and Smart Prime 8 for the prize, the IF Design Awards. All screenshots show a date of Wednesday, August 31, in German. That is the day of press conferences prior to the electronics fair IFA in the German capital Berlin.

It happens more often that hardware comes out through awards sites. A Vodafone Linux device came online in this way in 2010, but more recently the Asus Zenfone 3 came out in a similar way.