Leaks suggested that Samsung has cancelled the Galaxy S22 FE, but some now report that the S23 FE is on its way instead
Samsung surprised the world back in 2020 when it unveiled a Fan Edition version of its Galaxy S20. This featured a slightly reduced spec sheet compared to its full-fat sibling, but brought the overall flavour of a Galaxy device to those who didn’t want to spend the ever-increasing amounts that it costs to bag a flagship phone these days.
This was followed by the Galaxy S21 FE a year or so later, and we were looking forward to the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE too, but it never launched – and we’re sceptical about whether we’ll see the S23 FE too or not.When will the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE be released?
This is hard to predict given that the S22 FE never launched at all. We had expected Samsung to launch that phone some time around October 2022, shortly after the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4, but that obviously didn’t happen, and it looks likely that it won’t launch at all now.
That’s because the Galaxy S23 line has now arrived, so surely if any FE phone is on the way, it’ll be the S23 FE.
Korean publication Hankooki suggests essentially that: there will be an FE phone this year, but it will be branded the S23 FE, and will launch in August or September.
Adding weight to that report, it suggests that the Galaxy A74 has been scrapped, to prevent the two phones from cannibalising each other’s sales – which seems to be true, since we’ve since seen the A34 and A54 launch with no sign of the A74.
For reference, here’s when the previous FE phones made their debuts:
Samsung S20 FE: October 2020
Samsung S21 FE: January 2022
As you can see, there was a little more than a year between the two devices, but this was mainly down to the S21 FE being heavily delayed due to a combination of Covid-related disruptions to production and the worldwide shortage of processor chips.
