Samsung, no Galaxy S22 FE, but it’s not goodbye: Galaxy S23 FE will be done

July 20, 2022

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The indiscretion emerged for the first time in mid-June, and in the following weeks other confirmations arrived: Samsung Galaxy S21 FE will not have an heir. Or, if you prefer, in the coming months No Galaxy S22 FE will be launched. The news had already begun to be discussed, given that a premature abandonment of the FE series – launched in autumn 2020 with the Galaxy S20 FE, and therefore after just two generations – was not easy to predict.

And then they were particularly interesting smartphones, with top-of-the-range hardware and above all the possibility of having a Galaxy S with Snapdragon SoC on the European market, even if waiting a bit of time and giving up the build quality of the main series.

Perhaps the excessive goodness of the proposal could have proved problematic for Samsung, with the price that after the launch dropped significantly, creating a product around 500 euros capable of cannibalizing the actual flagships. However, important updates arrive from South Korea that help clarify the issue.

IT IS NOT THE END

As reported by the Korean newspaper The Elecindeed, the reason there will be no Samsung Galaxy S22 FAnd it is not to be found in tactical and strategic issues related to the catalog and internal competition between smartphones, but it would be purely material.

It also has nothing to do with the fact that Galaxy S21 FE arrived particularly late (it debuted on the market in January 2022, close to the launch of the Galaxy S22): simply the chip crisis prevents the Korean giant from guaranteeing a supply line for this new model, with the inability to procure the necessary quantity of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoCs to bring to all markets globally.

And so if behind the – forced – choice to abandon the Galaxy S22 FE project there is not Samsung’s will, but a material impediment, the FE series has really already come to an end? The answer that comes from The Elec is no: by the end of next year therefore, the launch of Galaxy S23 FE.