With less than a couple of weeks left ahead of the Samsung's London event sheduled to kick-off on 20 June, the company's upcoming smartphone Galaxy Ace 3 snapshots and certain key features have been leaked to the media.

Samsung community website, SamMobile, has leaked the first exclusive picture of the next generation Galaxy Ace 3. The picture shows the new smartphone having smooth curved corners quite similar to its predecessor, Galaxy Ace 2.

The website also revealed that the new Galaxy Ace 3 would sport a 4.0-inch TFT screen with 800x480p resolutions and also pack a 5.0-megapixel camera with LED flash at the rear side along with secondary VGA camera at the front side.

It further adds that the new smartphone is expected to run on either v4.1.2 or v4.2.2 Android Jelly Bean OS and houses a 1GHz dual-core processor with 1GB RAM and 4GB inbuilt memory with options of expansion up to 32GB via microSD card.

SamMobile claims that the speculated smartphone will come in variants- Single-SIM model GT-S7270 and dual-SIM model GTS7272. Soon after Galaxy Ace 3 is launched at the 'SAMSUNG PREMIERE 2013 GALAXY & ATIV' event on 20 June, the smartphone is expected to hit select markets by July end this year.

The event will also witness the launch of Windows OS based ATIV series tablet, PCs and smartphones along with a slew of Galaxy series devices.

Leaked specifications of Samsung Galaxy Ace 3:

Model

Galaxy Ace 3

Model no: GT-S7272 (Dual SIM)

Model no:GT-S7270 (Single SIM)

Display

4.0-inch TFT screen with 480x800p display resolutions

OS

Either v4.1.2 or v4.2.2 Android Jelly Bean OS

Interface

TouchWiz Nature UX

Processor

Dual-core processor with 1.0-GHz CPU speed

RAM

1GB

Storage

4GB, expandable up to 32GB

Camera

Main:5.0-megapixel camera with Led flash support

Front: VGA camera

Battery

1500 mAh

Add-ons

Bluetooth v4.0, A-GPS, Wi-Fi,

HSDPA 14.4 mbps and HSUPA 5.76 mbps

dimensions

121.2 x 62.7 x 9.79 mm

Expected

colour variants

Black, Red Wine and Pure White