Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is official, bringing all the power in a sleek package

(Pocket-lint) - Samsung has officially taken the wraps disconnected its latest Fan Edition phone, ensuring that CES 2022 doesn't spell by without a smartphone announcement from the tech giant. 

It's called the Galaxy S21 FE, and takes each the cardinal elements from the regular Galaxy S21 and strips it down to the essentials, simplifying the design. 

Despite its differences to the archetypal S21, it's intelligibly similar. It has the recognisable camera lodging that sits successful the country and wraps astir the borderline of the phone. 

Apart from a somewhat antithetic look, astir of the features are the aforesaid oregon - astatine slightest - precise similar. That includes the 120Hz susceptible AMOLED show with a highest brightness up to 1200 nits. 

Inside, you'll find an octa-core 5nm processor. Samsung hasn't yet confirmed, but it's apt it'll beryllium the Snapdragon 888 successful the US and Exynos 1200 internationally. 

The triple camera strategy connected the backmost features a 12-megapixel superior camera, 12-megapixel ultrawide and an 8-megapixel telephoto zoom. 

When it's disposable to bargain successful the UK - from 11 January - it'll beryllium disposable successful 2 configurations: 6GB/128GB for £699 and 8GB/256GB for £749. It'll travel successful 4 colours: white, graphite (black), lavender and olive green

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This begs the question: is it necessary? Since galore of its features are akin to the regular S21 - a telephone which is present disposable astatine astir precisely the aforesaid terms - bash we request this caller phone? Especially since the Galaxy S22 isn't acold disconnected besides being launched. It's peculiar timing indeed. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.