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Although the rumored Galaxy S22 did not make an official look throughout Samsung’s August 2021 Unpacked occasion, the place the brand new Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 had been launched, Dutch weblog LetsGoDigital speculates that the corporate could have hinted on the Galaxy S22’s new shade choices. The weblog noticed that about 46 minutes into the presentation, the phrase “SS22 colors” was written with the S Pen stylus. The textual content was beside a window with the phrases “Pistachio Green” and “Flamingo Pink” pointing to a light-weight inexperienced plaid pair of pants and a child pink blazer. Although it is doable we may see the brand new colours for the Galaxy S22, we can’t know something for positive till the smartphone’s rumored reveal early subsequent yr. Read extra: Samsung Galaxy Unpacked recap: Everything introduced
Beside the rumored trace to the Galaxy S22 colours, Samsung unveiled updates for its foldable telephones, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, in addition to a brand new smartwatch referred to as the Galaxy Watch 4 and new wi-fi earbuds dubbed the Galaxy Buds 2. Alongside the brand new merchandise, Samsung revealed a brand new sustainability initiative to remove all single-use plastic from its smartphone packaging by 2025.
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The Samsung Galaxy S21 was launched in January and impressed us with its strong all-round efficiency and higher steadiness of worth. The Galaxy S21 Ultra in the meantime blew us away with its unbelievable digicam setup and its capacity to take excellent zoomed in photographs. But what in regards to the followup sequence? We’re curious to see what the Galaxy S22 will carry. Here, then, is what we predict we’d see from the Galaxy S22. Read extra: Samsung Galaxy Watch 4: Samsung goals for the last word Android watch Galaxy S22 launch date: January 2022? Samsung usually launched its S-series telephones in March, however it bucked that pattern in 2021 by launching the S21 line in January. The firm usually follows a 12-month cycle of updating its handsets so we at the moment count on the S22 to be introduced in January 2022, presumably at, or across the CES tech present in Las Vegas. However, it is also doable that Samsung would possibly need to give the S21 line a bit extra respiration room and will return to a March launch schedule. With COVID-19 restrictions hopefully being a bit simpler by then, Samsung may hope to do an in-person launch occasion, which it usually does concurrently in cities throughout the globe. Read extra: Samsung Galaxy S22 vs. Galaxy S21: Rumors about new flagship’s launch date and specsThe Galaxy S21.
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Price: How a lot will the Galaxy S22 price? Sales of the Galaxy S20 line did not impress and it is doubtless it had rather a lot to do with the commonly excessive costs, coupled with widespread monetary uncertainty for many individuals because of the pandemic. The S21 supplied handsets at barely extra inexpensive costs by swapping glass again panels for toughened plastic. Here are all of the variations between the Galaxy S21 and S20. At launch, the bottom S20 got here in at $1,000 within the US, whereas the bottom S21 undercut that at $800. While we do not count on Samsung to attempt to make the S22 line cheaper, we do suppose it is a protected guess that the corporate will attempt to match the value level of the S21, quite than improve it again to S20 ranges.
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Multiple Galaxy S22 fashions: Plus and Ultra It’s a positive guess too that Samsung will supply a number of variations of the S22 line to supply various specs at a wide range of costs. It’s doubtless that we’ll see a base S22, together with an upgraded S22 Plus and an S22 Ultra mannequin sitting proper on the high quality with the most effective specs — and the best worth to match. (Here’s how the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus and S21 Ultra variants in contrast.) It’s a recipe Samsung has adopted for the previous couple of generations and it is clearly a technique deemed to be working. For these on extra modest budgets, it is doable that the corporate will even do a extra inexpensive Galaxy S22 FE, though that will not launch with the vary — we’re not anticipating the S21 FE till later this yr. The Galaxy S20 FE (which stands for “Fan Edition”) launched in October 2020, eight months after the flagship S20 lineup. The Fan Edition telephone made just a few good options and specs sacrifices to attain a extra budget-friendly worth. The Galaxy S21, S21 Plus and S21 Ultra.
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Galaxy S22 may help 65W charging Samsung may very well be upgrading the S22 lineup with 65-watt charging help, in response to leaker FrontTron. The tipster posted to Twitter in July that 65-watt quick charging is within the testing section for Rainbow RGB, a rumored codename for the S22 sequence. If this hypothesis proves true, the S22 would supply considerably quicker charging occasions than the Galaxy S21 and Galaxy Note 20 lineup, which each have 25-watt charging. Galaxy S22 processor, Android model and show Samsung tends to make use of each Qualcomm Snapdragon chips and its personal Exynos processors in its S sequence telephones — relying on area — and we totally count on it would do the identical once more within the S22 line. But it is protected to imagine that it will be the subsequent era of each chips, presumably the Snapdragon 895 (which is predicted to launch in December this yr) and the Exynos 2200. Back in 2019 Samsung partnered with graphics chip firm AMD for higher cellular graphics energy, however to this point we’ve not seen any Samsung telephone outfitted with devoted AMD {hardware}. It’s doable that the S22 (or extra doubtless, the S22 Ultra) may very well be the primary AMD telephone, boasting superior graphics efficiency for gaming. The Galaxy S21 Ultra.
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It’s additionally a protected guess that the S22 line will run Android 12 — introduced in June this yr at Google’s I/O occasion and at the moment in beta kind — with Samsung’s personal person interface tweaks excessive together with additions like Samsung Health, Samsung Pay and its Bixby digital assistant software program. Display measurement will nearly definitely differ relying on which mannequin you go for. With the S21 line, the bottom S21 was the smallest at 6.2 inches and the S21 Plus pushed issues additional to 6.7 inches, whereas the S21 Ultra ballooned ever additional out to 6.8 inches. Some early rumors recommend that Samsung will make the S22 and S22 Plus barely smaller — 6.05 and 6.5 inches, respectively. The identical rumors recommend the S21 Ultra will keep just about the identical measurement and, just like the S21 Ultra, would be the just one within the vary that may supply variable refresh charges as much as 120Hz.
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Galaxy S22 digicam: 200-megapixel decision? Rumors recommend it is the hero S22 Ultra that may see essentially the most thrilling digicam upgrades this time spherical. That’s good to listen to, because the S21 Ultra’s digicam is great, however wasn’t an enormous improve over its predecessor. Some of the present rumors recommend that it will be the primary Samsung telephone with a whopping 200-megapixel decision, based mostly on a teaser tweet from Samsung’s personal Exynos account displaying a 200-megapixel telephone digicam. That can be an enormous improve from the already pixel-packed 108-megapixel S21 Ultra and would theoretically enable for crisper zoomed-in pictures. Leaker Ice Universe speculated on Twitter in August that Samsung may introduce a 50-megapixel RGBW and a 200-megapixel digicam sensor this yr. Leaker Yogesh added to Ice Universe’s prediction to say the RGBW sensor may very well be featured on the Galaxy S22 sequence as properly. Speaking of zoom although, the S22 Ultra can be rumored to get a steady optical zoom, quite than merely having set 3x or 10x optical zoom lenses to change between. Currently, in case you zoom to, say, 7x zoom on the S21 Ultra that may use a mix of optical zoom and digital cropping, leading to pictures that look decrease high quality than if you use the 10x optical lens. A steady zoom would enable for uncropped optical zoom all through the complete zoom vary. The base S22 and S22 Plus fashions aren’t anticipated to get related digicam boosts, making certain that the S22 Ultra stands out and justifies spending the additional money. Expect to nonetheless see a number of lenses and a 50-megapixel fundamental sensor. The Galaxy S21.
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Colors: Could the Galaxy S22 are available in pink and inexperienced?Dutch Blog LetsGoDigital speculates that in Samsung’s August 2021 Unpacked occasion the corporate could have hinted at doable new shade choices for the upcoming Galaxy S22. At one level within the presentation (about 46 minutes in), when Samsung talks in regards to the S Pen stylus’s compatibility with the Galaxy Z Fold 3, the phrases “SS22 colors” are written on the foldable telephone. The textual content appeared subsequent to a separate window displaying a light-weight inexperienced plaid pair of pants and a child pink blazer that pointed to the phrases “Pistachio Green” and “Flamingo Pink.” It’s doable we may see these new colours for the Galaxy S22, however we can’t know for positive till the telephone makes its debut. Galaxy S22’s additional options Additional options like wi-fi charging, NFC for contactless funds, 5G connectivity and in-display fingerprint scanners are fairly protected bets for all of the S22 fashions. It’s additionally doubtless that Samsung will proceed to supply base storage choices of 128GB on all fashions, with upgrades as much as 256GB and even 500GB accessible for individuals who need the additional house. Don’t count on to increase that storage although because the S21 sequence eliminated the choice so as to add microSD playing cards. That was an actual disappointment, significantly on the S21 Ultra as its excessive decision pictures and 8K movies take up lots of house. Fingers crossed for a return, however do not get your hopes up.