Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra leak reveals it won't get this big upgrade

Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra leak reveals information technology won't go this big upgrade

The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. (Image credit: Time to come)

The Galaxy S21 Ultra'due south battery spec just leaked, and information technology'due south non bang-up news.

Within Communist china'southward 3C certification website, MyFixGuide found an entry relating to a battery with ID number EB-BG998ABY, which is believed to be the cell that will ability the Milky way S21 Ultra.

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While well-nigh of the information is written in Chinese characters, you tin can make out the capacity of 4855mAh. At that place are also two companies named: Samsung itself and Ningde Amperex, the latter seemingly Samsung'southward battery partner for the whole S21 serial based on older leaks.

If you're thinking that sounds smaller than the electric current Galaxy S20 Ultra'due south battery, you're only partially right. The S20 Ultra has a typical battery capacity of 5,000 mAh, simply a rated capacity (essentially the minimum guaranteed by Samsung) of 4,855 mAh, as you lot tin encounter in the fine print on Samsung's specs page for the S20 series.

Since regulators record rated capacities, we tin can figure out that Samsung's not decreasing the size of the S21 Ultra's battery compared to the S20 Ultra. Simply information technology isn't getting whatsoever larger either. The Galaxy S20 Ultra's battery life was splendid with the screen set to 60Hz, with the telephone lasting eleven hours and 58 minutes on average. That's skillful plenty for the S20 Ultra to land on our best telephone bombardment life list.

Nonetheless, at 120Hz the Galaxy S20 Ultra lasted only ix hours and 13 minutes, so that'southward virtually 3 hours less. Assuming Samsung employs the same adaptive display engineering on the Galaxy Note xx Ultra for the Galaxy S21 Ultra, that should assist matters. But a larger capacity would also exist welcome.

It was rumored recently that Samsung could exist giving the Galaxy S21 a 65W charging block, which would make full upward this battery in tape time. Still, leaker Ice Universe poured water on that bonfire, claiming that this charger was for a Samsung laptop, not one of its phones. It probably ways nosotros'll finish up with a 25W or 45W charging option similar Samsung has been offer on the Milky way S20 and Galaxy Note 20.

What seems more than sure is that the S21 series will use a new Samsung-designed Exynos chipset, the Exynos 1000. Having seen some early benchmarks leak recently, it's clear that Samsung still has piece of work to do; otherwise its phones will end up severely underpowered compared to those using the equivalent Qualcomm chip, probable called the Snapdragon 875.

Aside from the internal components, rumors point to an enormous 180MP principal camera on the dorsum of the S21 Ultra, forth with a pair of telephoto cameras for more adjustable zoom and close-upwards performance. The front volition be quite different too, equally it may be the first Samsung phone with an nether-brandish selfie camera instead of a notch or bezel.

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