What is the next number after 10? 11, right? Wrong! For some phone manufacturers, the next number after 10 is 20, not 11. We saw this with the Honor 10‘s successor launching as the Honor 20 instead of the Honor 11 and the Huawei P10‘s successor launching as the Huawei P20. Now, Samsung may be joining the bandwagon too with its upcoming Galaxy S series flagship phone.
Next year, Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S11 as the successor to this year’s Galaxy S10 series but a couple of tweets from two known leakers say otherwise.
According to Ice Universe (@UniverseIce) and @MMDDJ_, the successor to the Galaxy S10 is the Galaxy S20 and not the Galaxy S11.
Galaxy S20
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) December 24, 2019
S20
— 萌萌的电教 (@MMDDJ_) December 24, 2019
Based on this new development, the Galaxy S10 series’ successors should arrive as the Galaxy S20e, Galaxy S20, and the Galaxy S20 Plus.
It is also safe to assume that next year’s Galaxy Note series will launch as the Galaxy Note20 and not the Galaxy Note11 series since Samsung now uses the same naming scheme for both lines.
The change in naming makes sense since the coming year is 2020, so everything syncs. However, we believe the 2021 models may not be called the Galaxy S21 and Galaxy Note21 but the Galaxy S30 and Galaxy Note30 series respectively.
Renders and some specs of the upcoming flagships already leaked a few weeks ago. The Galaxy S20 series will have a punch-hole display just like that of the Galaxy Note10 series and a rectangular camera housing on the back holding varying number of sensors. The Galaxy S20 (formerly known as the Galaxy S11) has been reported to have a 108MP sensor and a telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom.
The phones should be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 processor in some markets and the Exynos 990 in others.
What do you think about Samsung’s decision to adopt the Galaxy S20 name rather than Galaxy S11? Let us know in the comment box.
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