Samsung Galaxy S21 launches January 14 — everything you need to know

Samsung Galaxy S21 launches Jan fourteen — everything yous need to know

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Normally Samsung Galaxy S21 leaks are covertly shared past insider sources, at high adventure to their job security. Sometimes, however, you can just become them by ringing Samsung up and asking.

That'due south how Android Authority managed to become a pretty big scoop. It fabricated a telephone call to one of India's biggest Samsung stores, the Samsung Opera House in Bengaluru, and the staff there were surprisingly obliging. They confirmed Galaxy S21'southward Jan fourteen date along with the colors and camera info.

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January 14 is the day the telephone will exist revealed, with the phone going on sale on Jan 22 globally. Pre-orders, at to the lowest degree at this one Samsung shop, are open up, with customers able to pay a eolith to reserve a place in the queue and the option to choice a preferred model when the phones are official.

The Samsung store also confirmed the utilise of the Exynos 2100 flake in the Indian S21 models. While the U.S. version of the Galaxy S21 will use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 chipset, users in other countries will see Samsung's new flagship chipset instead.

The shop also revealed the colors that each of the 3 Milky way S21 models will have. The base S21 will come in "gray, pink, purple, and white", the S21 Plus in "pink, purple, silvery, and blackness", and the S21 Ultra in "black and silver".

The S21 and S21 Plus will reportedly share the same trio of cameras, according to the Samsung store. In that location's a 12MP master photographic camera, 12MP ultrawide and 64MP telephoto with 3x zoom. The S21 Ultra gets a more formidable array of a 108MP primary camera, 12MP ultrawide, 10MP 3x telephoto and 10MP 10x telephoto.

We see a similar story with the S21 serial' displays. The S21 and S21 Plus both have FHD panels capable of a 120Hz refresh rate, with the quondam measuring 6.2 inches and the latter six.7 inches. The S21 Ultra is slightly larger at 6.8 inches, college-res with a QHD resolution, and uses LTPO engineering to allow an adaptive rather than fixed refresh charge per unit, up to 120Hz.

The Jan reveal date that now looks to be confirmed is earlier than the S20'southward release date was this yr dorsum in February. Rumors nigh why this is claim it's Samsung trying to forbid lost sales to phones like the iPhone 12.

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