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Saying the new Samsung Galaxy S11 will use the latest flagship chipset from Samsung/Qualcomm is about the most obvious piece of news reporting possible in tech.
So as you probably already knew the Samsung Galaxy S11 will come in the usual two variations with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 for the US, and the flagship Exynos for China and the EU.
The newsworthy bit is what the chipset is, it is now being claimed that Samsung will use the unannounced Exynos 9830, which you may have expected a couple of months ago. But recently Samsung announced the Exynos 990, which has not been formally classed as their flagship chipset, but the specification would suggest so.
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Quite often with leaks, companies will use codenames for the chipsets, so the Qualcomm numbering of SDM8250 for SD865 doesn’t match up, but in this case, Samsung has properly announced the Exynos 990, so it is not the codename.
The Exynos 9830 name was identified in lines of code that were discovered in Samsung’s One UI 2.0 beta, the code also reveals LPDDR5 memory, UFS 3.0 storage and 5G support.
I find it hard to believe that Samsung would launch a second chipset that has similar flagship specs to the Exynos 990 and until further information is revealed I would be inclined to think that they are the same chipset and that Samsung has decided to rename Exynos 9830,
The Exynos 990 brings some significant improvements over last years Exynos 9820 using a smaller fabrication process, the new Exynos M5 microarchitecture for the CPU and the Mali G77MP11 GPU. Unlike other companies, it lacks a built-in modem and instead will resort on the Exynos Modem 5123 capable of 5G.
The leak also suggests that the phone will have a face unlock feature, which isn’t a new thing again, but confirms we are not getting an elevating selfie camera and Samsung is likely sticking with the punch hole design.
Currently not too much has been revealed about the new Samsung Galaxy S11 we can almost certainly expect them to announce it in February just before MWC. I would expect a big camera improvement, Samsung manufacture 48MP and 64MP camera sensors and have announced a 108MP sensor. It is also claimed they will add in 5x optical zoom.
There will definitely be a 5G version, but it is possible there may not be a 4G version, I would say this is unlikely though.
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