Samsung Galaxy S24: latest news, rumors and everything we know so far
The Samsung Galaxy S23 line only hit the market in February, but we’re already looking forward to what the Samsung Galaxy S24 range could bring to the mobile table next year.
Samsung’s latest flagships are three of the best phones to buy in 2023 (read our Samsung Galaxy S23 review, hands-on Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus review and Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review to find out why), and the chance is great that the next few entries in the brand’s popular S series will continue to push boundaries for mobile performance, photography and battery life.
We’re still a while away from the release of the Samsung Galaxy S24 line, but we’ve still put together this one-stop shop guide to all the latest news and rumors about Samsung’s next Galaxy S phones.
Samsung Galaxy S24: release date
Given that Samsung has only just opened the lid on its Galaxy S23 line, we don’t expect the brand’s Galaxy S24 smartphones to be released until 2024. That said, we can make an educated guess about when these devices might show up.
Samsung debuted its Galaxy S23 phones at Galaxy Unpacked in February, with the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra all going on sale from February 17. The Samsung Galaxy S22 range was unveiled around the same time a year earlier, so we’d expect next year’s Galaxy Unpacked event – likely to fall in January or February – to play host to the launch of the Galaxy S24 line .
It’s worth noting that we don’t yet know if Samsung will once again release three Galaxy models in the S24 line – a vanilla S24, an S24 Plus and an S24 Ultra. The company has stuck to a three-pronged release strategy every year since 2020, but The Electric (opens in new tab) reports that Samsung may choose to completely scrap the Plus variant due to “polarization in the flagship product market” and the “stagnation of the entire smartphone market”.
Samsung Galaxy S24: price
It goes without saying, but since we don’t even know which phones will definitely arrive in the Samsung Galaxy S24 line, there’s no word yet on the Galaxy S24 price.
However, using this year’s Galaxy S23 phones as a marker, we can safely assume that the vanilla S24, S24 Plus and S24 Ultra will cost at least $799.99 / £849 / AU$1,349, $999.99 / will cost £1,049 / AU$1,649 and $1,199.99 / £1,249 / AU$1,949, respectively.
As mentioned earlier, we may not see a Galaxy 24 Plus phone at all.
Samsung Galaxy S24: news and specifications
If we are to believe The Elec’s aforementioned claims about the lack of a Galaxy S24 Plus, then you’ll probably have to choose between the Galaxy S24’s 6.1-inch screen and the Galaxy S24’s 6.8-inch screen Ultra (assuming these phones have the same screen sizes as their respective predecessors).
Unless Samsung rocks the boat, we’d expect the vanilla model to stick with the S23’s 120Hz AMOLED display (2340 x 1080 pixels), while the S24 Ultra will also include the S23 Ultra’s glorious dynamic AMOLED 2X panel (1440 x 3088 pixels). has. as the dynamic refresh rate that can scale between 1Hz and 120Hz.
Intriguingly, the look of both phones could be quite different from what we’re used to. Samsung recently hired Hubert H. Lee (opens in new tab)a former design manager at Mercedes-Benz, to head the design department for smartphones and smartwatches from 2023 and beyond, so the S24 and S24 Ultra may differ aesthetically from the recent Galaxy S models.
Under the hood, both phones will almost certainly use Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon chipset, which is expected to be the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in 2024. Each model in the Galaxy S23 line runs on Qualcomm’s already impressive Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor , so the Galaxy S24 and S24 Ultra are likely to be even more powerful handsets than their predecessors.
As for the phone’s cameras, tipster Ice Universe claims that Samsung will replace the S23 Ultra’s telephoto sensor with a “new solution” on the S24 Ultra, while the phone’s main camera will “remain the same.”
The Galaxy S24 Ultra is expected to replace the telephoto sensor and adopt a new solution. I think the main camera will stay the same or be slightly changed.December 28, 2022
More recently, a tweet (opens in new tab) from RGcloudS suggests the S24 Ultra will use a “Gen4 optics” zoom camera design to “significantly improve” the phone’s zoom capabilities.
In practice, that could mean a wider aperture of 2.5-2.9 and the possibility of 150x digital zoom on the S24 Ultra, offering better low-light performance than its predecessor and the already impressive 100x Space Zoom capabilities of the latter.
There’s no word yet on the camera setup for the standard Samsung Galaxy S24, but the high-profile photography technology is almost always reserved for the top-end handsets in Samsung’s Galaxy lineup.