Few years ago, old-school clamshell was quite a hit in Japan, as the Japanese companies are busy churning out clamshell phones. But these days everything is about touchscreen, thus we rarely see clamshell phones. There’s a reason why you touchscreen smartphones in oversized yet super-slim candybar phones with no buttons, and it’s because when your entire UI is touch-centric, putting the screen a few inches away from the user’s thumb is a usability nightmare waiting to happen. But now Samsung is going to do the awkward stunt move: a Clamshell Android phone! Here we welcome the SCH-W899. But you can only have it if you migrate to China now.

Samsung’s rolled out a fairly sophisticated new touchscreen folder for the Chinese under the codename SCH-W899 that features not one, but two separate 3.3-inch Super AMOLED displays on either side of the phone’s top half. You’ve got a 1GHz processor in it, a 5 megapixel camera, 512MB of onboard storage expandable with a 32GB microSD slot, and of course CDMA EV-DO Rev A and GSM compatibility so that the phone can befriend with services from China Telecom and GSM roaming capability. Obviously, there’s also Froyo running around in the phone. Good luck getting one, if you’re so into clamshell.