Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G to hit T-Mobile on September 19 at $150 on-contract

The Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G is yet to be made available. Initially known as the Galaxy S Blaze Q, this was supposed to see the light of day on August 15, but for some reason it will go on sale with a delay of more than a month.

T-Mobile has issued a press release clearly stating that the Relay will start selling in eight days from now, the phone is nowhere to be found on Magenta’s official website. Samsung itself is still listing it as “coming soon”, with no word of an exact release date, so we can’t shake up the feeling that we might be treated with another launch delay after all.

The Relay 4G now being confirmed as hitting the market for $150. That’s with a two-year T-Mo carrier agreement and after a $50 mail-in rebate, which doesn’t sound like a very hot deal to us.The HTC One S is just one of Magenta’s more affordable phones ($49.99 after mail-in rebate and web-only discount), and that’s snappier and more powerful than the Relay, as far as we can tell.The Galaxy S2, going for $150, or even the GS3, which is only $130 more expensive than what the Relay is going to cost.

The Relay will be running Android 4.0 ICS upon launch, and, although nobody has confirmed a Jelly Bean upgrade per se, it seems likely that the mid-ranger will take the software leap sooner or later. T-Mobile told Tmonews a couple of days ago that there are “no news to share” on that front, and that “we will communicate updates as we have additional details to share”, which is basically PR talk for “a Jelly Bean upgrade is coming