judgment : Rumours are swirl about the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE this week with a in particular impressive set of alleged spectacles doing the rounds online – but as with the Galaxy S23 FE , the specification is n’t the trouble Samsung has . It ’s timing .
Let me pull back for a second here and turn over into those purpose specs . According to leaker@OreXda , the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE will either do with aSnapdragon 8 Gen 3or Exynos 2400 . That ’s the same apparatus as the regularGalaxy S24 , but as with the flagship serial publication , the chipset will likely depend on where you are in the humankind .
thing come out to get a small confusing here , as the leaker suggest that the S24 FE will also have a 4500mAh battery and 12 GB of RAM – that ’s more than the regularGalaxy S24 ’s 4,000mAh and 8 GB offer . Combined with the flagship chipset , it looks like the S24 FE could be more herculean than the flagship . I ’m nottoosure about that one .
Finally , it ’s stated that it could have a 6.1 - inch display , down from the 6.2 - inch presentation of the regular S24 – though that does match last year’sGalaxy S23 ’s screen size – and a downscaling of the 6.4 - inch Galaxy S23 FE . The leaker admits that is n’t confirmed , however .
If the above specs are true , it point towards a very capable alternative to this twelvemonth ’s flagship Galaxy S24 . But 2023’sGalaxy S23 FEwas also a jolly substantial mid - range alternative to the flagship Galaxy S23 with all the right compromises . The problem the S23 FE had was timing ; it was released in October 2023 in the US and December 2023 in the UK .
By that full stop , the flagship Samsung Galaxy S23 range had been out for almost a twelvemonth and , as we see from most speech sound after being available for a standardized amount of time , the Galaxy S23 ’s base price had begun to steal .
So much so , in fact , that the full - fat flagship Galaxy S23 could be found at the same £ 599 price as the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE at its UK launch in December . So , as skilful a job as Samsung did with the S23 FE , delivering all the right via media and a decent price shred that wassupposed tobe £ 150 cheaper than the regular S23 , it just was not a tempting option at all .
That was further complicated by the declaration , and subsequent spill , of the Samsung Galaxy S24 range in January 2024 . That not only had the knock - on event of constitute the Galaxy S23 FE look rather outdated just months after its spill , but it meant that the base monetary value of last year ’s Galaxy S23 again plummeted as retail merchant start shifting surplus ancestry .
For context , the SIM - free Galaxy S23 is presently available for £ 570 in the UK , while the Galaxy S23 FE still retail for £ 599 .
If Samsung wants good event from the Galaxy S24 FE , this simply can not happen again . My Leslie Townes Hope is that not only will Samsung discharge the Galaxy S24 FE in the US and UK simultaneously , but that the loss will be brought forward substantially .
It makes horse sense for Samsung to look a few months before exhaust the Galaxy S24 FE – it does n’t need to undersell the flagship sale , after all – but I sense that it ’d be much better received if , say , it was released alongside the Samsung foldables in the summer months .
At that point , the S24 FE would be cheaper than the regular S24 , and it ’d remain relevant for at least six months before theGalaxy S25appears sometime in early 2025 . Will that really happen ? It ’s backbreaking to say , but if Samsung wants to learn from its past mistakes , somethingneeds to change .
