Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is almost certainly canceled as Samsung removes support page
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Will there be aSamsung Galaxy S21 FE? While we still don’t have an official answer yet, we’ve got the next best thing, asSamsungis reportedly removing references to the phone from its websites.
According toSamMobile, support pages for the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE in Hong Kong, South Africa, Singapore and elsewhere are being removed, which certainly suggests the phone has been canceled.
This comes just days after a Samsung official reportedly said that a mid-October launch for the phonehad been canceled, with the company apparently reviewing whether to even launch it at all.
Prior to that we’d heard conflicting reports on whether the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE would ever see the light of day, with the phone following a similar pattern to theSamsung Galaxy Note 21– a handset that itself was ultimately canceled earlier this year.
It could make sense for Samsung to ditch the S21 FE too, since given the ongoingchipset shortageit might want to reserve more chipsets for its new foldables – theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 3and theSamsung Galaxy Z Flip 3.
The latter in particular is said to be selling well, and these two phones both use the Snapdragon 888 chipset that we’d been expecting to see in the Galaxy S21 FE.
Analysis: removing support pages is a bad sign, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the phone is dead
While Samsung’s removal of support pages for the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE certainly makes it look like the company is trying to abandon the project, there are other possible explanations.
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For one thing, having support pages up for an unannounced phone isn’t ideal and may not have been intentional, so there’s a chance Samsung is just rectifying a mistake, and will reinstate them when the phone actually launches.
Another possibility is that the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE could get a limited launch, and that the regions the support pages are being removed from might not see it. Given the ongoing chipset shortage that could be a way for Samsung to still launch the phone, and it wouldn’t be alone in doing that – theGoogle Pixel 5afor example was only made available in the US and Japan.
Still, we’re not optimistic about these possibilities, especially given the previous uncertainty around the Galaxy S21 FE’s future. So at this point we’d be surprised if the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE did launch.
That’s sure to disappoint some, as between that and the absence of a new Note model, the second half of this year has lacked a conventional Samsung flagship. But hope might be around the corner, as theSamsung Galaxy S22range probably isn’t too far off, with one leaker suggesting it could launch as soon as December.
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James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.
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