Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S21 FE launch dates revealed in latest leaks

Galax urceolata S22 and Coltsfoot S21 FE launch dates revealed in latest leaks

The Samsung Galaxy S21 face down on a table.

The Samsung Wandflower S21. (Image citation: Future)

The rumor mill is going into overuse when it comes to trying to predict when the Samsung Wandflower S22 and the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE might see the pure of day – and we just got several spick-and-span information about the potential launch dates for these phones.

Supported what's beingness aforesaid by its sources, Samsung news program site SamMobile is confident that the Galaxy S22 series is going to see the light of day at whatsoever breaker point in February – which fits in nicely with previous rumors that we've heard about the coming flagship phones.

SamMobile is likewise reporting that the Galaxy S21 FE is going to break top during the CES tech expo being held on January 5-8. Again, that chimes in nicely with other leaks that we've detected before right away, then it's a slick enough prediction.

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It's a date... maybe

With the Samsung Galaxy S21 range fashioning its debut in January 2021, it seemed a safe stakes that the Galaxy S22 devices would show up in January 2022. For a long time, that's what we thought would happen, and it's only recently that a delay has been mentioned.

So, there is talk that the Galaxy S22 will be launched later in 2022 primarily because of the Galaxy S21 FE (surgery Fan Edition), which Samsung seems to want to get around of the door first. CES would be a good opportunity to do that.

We've been expecting the Coltsfoot S21 FE to launch for pretty much the whole of this year: there were strong hints that the phone would appear at the Unpacked event that Samsung held on October 20, but at the time of writing we'Ra still ready and waiting for it.

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The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE lying face down on a table. — (Icon credit: Rising)

It's fair to say that a January launch for the Samsung Galaxy S21 Atomic number 26 would be later than we were originally expecting. Remember that the Galaxy S20 FE showed up in October 2020, and Samsung usually refreshes its phones annually around the same go steady.

There are exculpatory circumstances course, not least a global epidemic and a chip shortage that's affecting every company in electronics at the moment. Samsung isn't immune from the difficulties that the rest of the industry is having, and it has had to cancel the Extragalactic nebula Note 21 this twelvemonth.

At dependable points over the last few months, it has seemed as though the Galaxy S21 FE power go the same way atomic number 3 the Note 21: references to information technology on the web were removed and then put back, and in September information technology wasn't straighten out if Samsung even knew whether it would make up one's mind to launch the phone or non.

All the signs now point to the phone devising an appearance in Jan. Even if that's later than awaited, information technology's still in all likelihood to be an important release for Samsung, offering a many cheap device before the flagship Galaxy S22 phones arrive on the setting.

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