On today’s Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the latest Samsung Galaxy Note 22 Ultra leaks, Google’s next event, and more.
There’s no official news today… but chill, events are coming. Trust me. For now, let’s talk Samsung for the first time, and we’ll be focusing on a phone we’ve been waiting on for a long time and, it’s not getting any better. A few days ago we had a new report claiming that Samsung fixed the production issues they were having with the Galaxy S21 FE due to the global chip shortage and that they had started mass production but.. That might not be the case. According to a new tweet from Tron where he’s citing a Korean news outlet, the S21 FE October Unpacked has been cancelled, and Samsung is considering not releasing the device at all. They claim that it is due to the chip shortage but also because the Z Flip 3 is selling so well beyond their expectations. Ice Universe also chimed in by saying that, if the Galaxy S22 Series releases in December, it is reasonable to cancel the S21 FE. And every year we hear that the S is launching a little earlier than before so, let’s see if this year it actually happens. We were expecting the S21 FE to bring nearly identical specifications to the S21 but in different color variants, and people were excited for it due to the S20 FE’s success but, we’ll see what ends up happening in Techtober. Let’s shift gears on to Apple and a couple of Ming Chi Kuo reports that give us an update on what’s going on with upcoming Macs. For starters, he mentions that they expect the shipment of Apple Silicon based MacBook models will be cut by approximately 15% in the first half of 2022 due to 3 different reasons. Those being component shortages which are still going on, structural demand due to COVID, and the product transition between legacy and new models. Now, to provide some detail on one of these MacBooks, Kuo also talks about the upcoming MacBook Air. Apple reportedly plans to begin mass production for this Mac in the third quarter of next year, and Kuo expects it to bring a new design as well as a more powerful Apple Silicon chip.
