Samsung Tips New Colors for Galaxy Note II ... in Korea

After topping 5 million unit sales in just two months, the Samsung Galaxy Note II is now getting a makeover.

Samsung today announced that it will be releasing the Note II in "amber brown" and "ruby wine" along with its usual "titanium gray" and "marble white" color options. The bad news? The new color options are limited to Samsung's home country of South Korea at the moment.

The amber brown version is already available in South Korea, while the ruby wine mode is expected to arrive in the next week, according to mobile tech blog Unwired View. There's no word yet as to whether the new jewel-toned devices will make it to the U.S., but a more global rollout is expected to start sometime soon.

The new models will stay exactly the same on the inside, but sport a new, iridescent-looking brown or red shell. Even the S Pen tucked into the device is getting a paint job to match.

The device boasts a 5.5-inch, 1,280-by-720-pixel display, and runs on Google's Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean operating system. It has a 1.6-GHz, quad-core Exynos processor, optimized for LTE networks, as well as 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, plus a microSD card for expandable storage up to 64GB.

Samsung debuted the oversized phone/tablet, or "phablet," in late September, and by November it reached 5 million unit sales, a milestone that took the original Galaxy Note about five months to hit. The Note II is now on sale in all regions, including Asia, Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Africa.

For more, see PCMag's review of the Samsung Galaxy Note II and the slideshow above.

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