Last week, news broke out that the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE will be delayed until October. Most importantly, the same report said that the smartphone will be limited to the US and Europe. Now, days later, another report reiterates the handset’s launch timeline, however, it suggests a different availability.

According to a report by Maeil Economic Daily (via FrontTron), the Galaxy S21 FE will be released in Q4 2021. The handset was supposed to launch in August. The reason for the delay is none other than the global semiconductor shortage.

Samsung is facing difficulties in procuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset for the successor of Galaxy S20 FE. Hence, the older report stated that the smartphone will be only launching in the US and Europe.

But now, the latest report says that the South Korean tech giant will be using its in-house Exynos 2100 SoC alongside the Snapdragon 888 to compensate for the shortage.

Unfortunately, it’s not known what region will be getting which variant of the device. But most likely, Samsung will release the Snapdragon 888 version in the US and Europe since they are the company’s key markets other than its home country South Korea.

As per previous reports, the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE will come with a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED Infinity-O display with a 120Hz refresh rate, up to 8GB RAM and 256GB internal storage, 12MP triple camera setup, 32MP selfie camera, One UI 3.1.1 based on Android 11, 4,500mAh battery, 25W fast wired charging, 15W fast wireless charging, and 4.5W reverse wireless charging.

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Samsung is said to hold its next Galaxy Unpacked event on August 3. The company is expected to unveil the Galaxy Z Fold3, Galaxy Z Flip3, Galaxy Watch4, and the Galaxy Watch Active4 at this conference. These devices are said to be followed by the Galaxy S21 FE. According to a new report, the successor to the popular Galaxy S20 FE will not only be delayed but may also not launch in most markets.

A few days back, news broke out that the GalaxyS21 FE will be delayed by a month. The handset was supposed to debut alongside the new foldables and smartwatches in August. However, due to supply chain issues, it was said to launch a month later in September.

Now, a new report by Financial News (via SamMobile) sheds more info on this situation. A Samsung Electronics official partner confirms that the Galaxy S21 FE was indeed set to debut in August powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset. But now, the phone may be delayed until October. 

That’s not all, it may only release in the US and Europe. In other words, the smartphone may not even launch in the company’s home country South Korea.

The primary reason for the delay is unsurprisingly the shortage of Snapdragon 888 chips. Even the current stipulated October schedule is not guaranteed as the supply and demand of semiconductors is that serious. The units for the US and Europe could also be lowered than previously planned.

As per earlier reports, the Galaxy S21 FE will feature a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED Infinity-O display with a 120Hz refresh rate, up to 8GB RAM and 256GB internal storage, 12MP triple camera setup, 32MP selfie camera, One UI 3.1.1 based on Android 11, 4,500mAh battery, 25W fast wired charging, 15W fast wireless charging, and 4.5W reverse wireless charging.

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Samsung launched the Galaxy S20 FE last year and brought back the Fan Edition hype to the flagship series. At that time, reports said that company plans to drop the ‘Lite’ editions and bring more ‘FE’ in the future. Ascertaining that, a fresh report by Sammobile says it’s already working on the Galaxy S21 FE.

A Samsung phone with model number SM-G990B is in the works. The report says that this could be the next FE model in 2021 i.e., Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. Samsung’s devices generally have various model numbers for a single device as each one is for a region. For instance, the Galaxy S20 FE has SM-G78xx where the x varies with region. Eg. SM-G780F(India), G7810(China).

Hence, this G990B could just be one such variant of the Galaxy S21 FE. Although the ‘G990’ is on the lines of LTE variant with ‘G780’ model number, we aren’t sure if the Galaxy S21 FE would also get an LTE and 5G variants just yet.

Moving on, the report says that the device will launch in Four colors- Gray or Silver, Pink, Violet, and White options. This is one less than five color options for the predecessor.  Other expected specs so far include a 5G connectivity(no-brainer), 128/256GB storage, and run Android 11.

Now, we can’t be so sure about the One UI version at this point. This is because Samsung already has the latest One UI 3.1 out and it’s expected to bring the One UI 3.5 roundabout H2 2021 during the Galaxy Z Fold3 launch.

Meanwhile, Samsung is also planning to bring the 5G variant of Galaxy S20 FE to India as the support page has gone live recently.

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