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Traditionally, Samsung has launched its new Galaxy S phones during the Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona in late February or early March of each year. But next year the company might be looking to move things along faster than usual.
It’s not a very unexpected decision, given the fact that Samsung rushed things with the Galaxy Note5 too, launching it ahead of schedule and not during the IFA tradeshow, as was usually the norm.
So if we are to believe the current hearsay coming out of South Korea (reported to us by G for Games), the phone will be officially unveiled in January 2016, with the commercial release following in February 2016.
Samsung is looking to make its next big announcement independent of MWC 2016
The report comes from an analyst working under SK Securities, a firm that is owned by the SK Group, which is a conglomerate that owns SK Telecom, one of the major South Korean telecom carriers. So it seems there’s at least one reason to give this information some credit.
On the other hand, previous rumors have claimed that the first Snapdragon 820-powered smartphone would make it out on the market sometime around March 2016, and given that Samsung is rumored to be planning to launch Snapdragon 820 versions of its Galaxy S7 this year, a February retail release date sounds a little off schedule.
Still, Samsung could launch the Exynos variant first and then follow up with the Snapdragon 820 version later. Anyway, word on the street says that some units of Sammy’s next flagship will make it out with a new Exynos M1 / 8890 chipset.
Also, just yesterday we told you that Samsung might be looking to introduce a total of three variants of the phone, a standard version plus another variant with a curved display, and one with a phablet-sized display.
Given that the current Galaxy S6 also has three variants, the news doesn’t come as a big surprise.
So what do you think? Will Samsung have enough time to actually revamp the Galaxy S7 enough to meet the January release time frame?
