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The Galaxy Notice 22—no wait, the S22 Extremely?! Notice the S-Pen oval on the underside edge.
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Get a load of that “P” formed digicam block.
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It isn’t clear how a periscope digicam would match into that P notch on the backside. It looks as if it will want extra vertical top, however Samsung makes cameras, so that you by no means know.
It is by no means too early to begin speaking about new Samsung telephones, is it? OnLeaks has a sequence of renders out for the Galaxy S22. These are often based mostly on CAD renders given to case producers, and whereas they could get a number of the smaller particulars incorrect, the cutouts, digicam block, and different main options needs to be right.
First up is a Galaxy S22 Ultra render, and this is a shocker: it has an S-Pen! Samsung killed the Note line this 12 months to give attention to foldable telephones, but it surely apparently nonetheless cannot let the thought of telephone handwriting go. Samsung has shipped pen equipment for the S21 Extremely and Galaxy Z Fold 3, however these required some type of case for storage. This render exhibits the S22 Extremely with the telltale oval alongside the underside edge, identical to an outdated Notice telephone. Push it in and the pen will come out.
The upside to an built-in S- Pen is that if you wish to do handwriting in your telephone, you may at all times have the pen with you. The draw back is that the S22 Extremely battery will probably be smaller than it may very well be, as a result of a whole lot of house is taken up by the pen holder. It is also an enormous bummer for anybody who desires a premium Samsung telephone however has no real interest in handwriting as a result of they’re going to need to put up with the pen sucking up battery house. You aren’t getting a alternative.
Designing across the S-Pen holder means the S22 Extremely usually has a Galaxy Note 20-style design. There is a flat high and backside edge, and the tall corners make the telephone a full rectangle, giving the S-Pen a bit more room to be saved. The entrance display screen is a full rectangle, too, with solely minimally rounded corners. The telephone nonetheless has a hole-punch digicam, as a substitute of the under-display selfie cameras that Samsung packed into the Galaxy Z Fold 3.
The one main departure from the Notice 20 design is the rear digicam block, which now has a bit lacking from the bottom-right nook (so it varieties a “P” form). The lacking chunk is throughout from the periscope digicam lens; beforehand the Galaxy S21 Extremely wanted that house for the periscope digicam, which took up a whole lot of house horizontally. Now, it doesn’t appear to be the traditional periscope footprint will match.
OnLeaks additionally has renders of the bottom mannequin S22 and S22+, which look equivalent to final 12 months’s fashions.
Probably the most fascinating factor concerning the S22 telephones needs to be the SoC. Samsung goes all-in on its in-house Exynos chips and beginning a partnership with AMD, which can provide the GPUs to match up with ARM-designed CPUs. Samsung and AMD introduced this partnership back in 2019, and Samsung’s Exynos division mentioned the fruits of that partnership needs to be seen in its subsequent flagship product, which might be the Exynos 2200 SoC scheduled for the S22.
Samsung usually does not ship Exynos chips in lots of elements of the world, selecting to separate the lineup with Qualcomm for main markets just like the US and China, however we have now a tough time imagining the corporate would introduce Radeon + Exynos SoCs and never roll them out in every single place. Samsung has executed a worldwide Exynos launch earlier than with the Galaxy S6, and its current work with Google on the Pixel 6—which can deliver an Exynos modem to the US for the primary time in years—exhibits the corporate is able to department out into extra territories.
