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Samsung decided to stir the imagination of consumers and placed an ad on the Samsung Mobile website promising the arrival of "something big" on Feb. 13, which also shows an obscured image of the upcoming device next to the Samsung Galaxy S. Nothing more is provided: no details and no technical specs.

Meantime, observers speculate that the product may be one of those demonstrated at CES including an unnamed LTE (Long-Term Evolution) phone with a 4.3 inch screen and the Infuse 4G with a 4.5 inch screen.

A new report from ABI Research says that over 60% of the world’s population will be able to access some form of 4G mobile broadband technology by 2015. According to ABI analyst Neil Strother between LTE and WiMAX, 4G technologies will reach an estimated 4.4 billion people within the next five years. This will make up more than double the 2 billion people today who currently have access to 3G mobile data technologies such as HSPA or EV-DO Rev. A, he says. ABI estimates that around 770 million users around the world today have access to either WiMAX or LTE services.