Samsung has announced that its first big Galaxy phone of the year will arrive on
February 11th here's everything we know about it
so normally samsung announces its new Galaxy S phone in February or March this
year it's early February a little bit earlier than last year and rumors are
suggesting that the name might change we expected it to be the S11 as it's been
S10, S9, S8 and so on but on twitter a well-known leakster named ice universe
teased the s20 name a couple of weeks ago and that's kind of picked up
speed some case makers have picked that up and some other sources
have said that the new name and a phone will be the Galaxy S 20 now that might
seem like a big jump from 10 to 20 but it would really give Samsung a way to
kind of reboot this Galaxy S line not unlike what Apple did a couple years ago
with the iPhone 10 otherwise the Galaxy S 20 or 11 is gonna be a lot of what we
expect we have the snapdragon 865 chip which is
qualcomm latest processor and it also brings a 5g modem now Qualcomm is tying
the 5g modem with the 865 chip so we pretty much know that all three phones
in this line will have 5g unlike last year where Samsung reserved it for that
top-end model now one thing that the Galaxy S line won't have is a headphone
jack now Samsung set itself apart from Apple and Google over the last
couple of generations with a headphone jack on the s10 and the s9 but that's
probably almost 100% going away now Samsung got rid of it last year with the
note 10 and also the Galaxy fold and it's looking like that's going to continue to
this year's s model as well so sorry headphone jack lovers so it's looking
like Samsung's going to have three models of the new Galaxy S line again
this year like it introduced last year with the s10e it'll start with the
S11 or S20 whatever it calls it at the bottom then the plus and at the top an
ultra model and the sizes are pretty significantly bigger we're starting at
the bottom with 6.2 inches then going up to six point seven and at the top six
point nine which is just crazy the note 10 plus for example which was one of
the biggest phones of the year and just hit my max for what I can carry with 6.8
inches so that ultra phone this year is gonna be even bigger than that those
name and size rumors those come from ice universe again on Twitter but here's a
rumor from Sam mobile which is a samsung dedicated site that usually nails its
predictions the new Galaxy S phone will have a 120 Hertz screen now we've seen
these higher refresh screens before the razor phone the pixel 4 the oneplus 7
but this would be the first time Samsung brings its high refresh display
technology to its own phone and that's a big deal so the S 11 while the processor
might not be that much faster than the s10 things are going to feel way snappier
thanks to this higher refresh screen things like scrolling and just the way
we use our phone every day is gonna be way better if this rumour is true now
rumors say that the new Galaxy S phone will start at 4500 milliamp hours and go
up from there topping off or maybe even higher than 5,000 milliamp hours which
is really big and should make the phone last for quite a long time now that
tells me that Samsung has developed some kind of safety mechanism some different
one that makes sure that these things won't blow up and I'm hoping that it
also uses USB C power delivery so it's compatible with all those cheaper fast
chargers from Aukey and Anker and things like that and that brings us to
the most important feature of the new Galaxy S phone the camera of course is
going to be better than the s10 as it always is but it looks like this year
Samsung is really kind of amping up its camerawork
first and foremost it's going to be adopting a new array similar to what we
saw on the pixel 4 and the iPhone 11 that means that Samsung is getting away
from the horizontal or vertical array that we've seen on its prior phones and
going to that square camera bump in the top left corner of the phone we already
see this on the galaxy s10 lite and the no 10 lite that launched earlier
this month and it has its benefits among them of the addition of a fifth camera
lens we saw four on the S 10 and that's probably going to be in the ultra model
and maybe the plus based on rumors amongst those five lenses we're going to
have a time of flight camera a 5x zoom and get ready for this a hundred and
eight megapixel main camera which is just bonkers and in my opinion
completely unnecessary now amongst these changes to the camera hardware I'm
hoping Samsung bring some changes to its processing as well we've seen Samsung
phones lose ground to Google and Apple when it comes to night photography and
portraits and just overall quality of the final image now 108 megapixels might
be great for marketing but at the end of the day the sensor is only as good as
the processing that's behind it and I'm hoping that Samsung has really focused
on that part of the s20's camera now if these rumors all come to pass the s20
s11 is shaping up to be a monster phone release we'll have full coverage on our
site once we get our hands on it with hands on and reviews and tips and tricks
and everything else that we could possibly write about this phone but we
want to know what you think are you excited for the s20 do we not care about
them anymore it's Samsung releasing too many phones
let me know in the comments and I'll see you next time