Photos of the alleged Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini emerged online last week that stirred the upcoming release of the device.

It has only been two weeks since the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 but rumours about the miniature version of the device are already swirling.

The leaked photos were posted by SamMobile, which it obtained from its Twitter follower with the name of Ermek Kubanychbekov. As per the images, the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini will carry the same design as the bigger version, but with a smaller form factor.

Rumours point to June or July 2013 for the unpacked event of the smartphone as a dula-SIM smartphone.

GSMArena reports that four variants of the supposed Galaxy S4 Mini, including the model number GT I-9190 that we saw emerge last week, have shown up on Samsung's website ahead of launch. The listings, which also include the GT I-9192, GT I-9195 and the GT I-9198, seem to point to four different Galaxy S4 models.

It appears that the GT-I9190, according to SamMobile and RBMen, could sport not only HSPA+ speeds, but a Exynos 5120 quad-core processor. That processor could feature the same type of ARM big.LITTLE technology that's found in the Exynos 5 Octa, only it will feature four cores instead of eight.

The GT I-9192 is said to be a dual-SIM HSPA+ Galaxy S4 Mini with a dual-core processor, the GT I-9195 is thought to be an LTE model, while the GT-I9198 is supposedly a variant of the Galaxy S4 Mini that is headed to China.

Some of the speculated features of the have a a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display with 256ppi, 1.6GHz dual-core processor, and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean along with Samsung's new TouchWiz interface, Nature UX 2.0.