Samsung Galaxy S20 FE
Price: £599 (inc VAT) from fave.co/31c9KOa
Unlike Apple’s iPhone SE branding, Samsung had no qualms in explaining the logic behind the FE branding. The Fan Edition of the flagship Samsung Galaxy S20 looks to offer the favourite high-end features at a more palatable price tag, and with a Snapdragon 865 included as standard, it could be the only Samsung smartphone in the 2020 roster that UK fans are truly interested in.
DESIGN
The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE has the same design ideology as the rest of the S20 range – complete with rear-facing rectangular camera block and centrally-placed hole-punch front-facing camera – but there are plenty of small differences in design that make the S20 FE stand out on its own.
The most noticeable is that unlike its siblings, the Galaxy S20 FE doesn’t have a curved display. It’s completely flat, and that does mean it’s not quite as comfortable in the hand as curved alternatives, but Samsung has tried to make up for it by offering more of a curved rear than the standard S20. I admittedly had no complaints about comfort when using the S20 FE, even one-handed, but it’ll very much be a personal thing.
Another noticeable change is the shift from glass to ‘Glasstic’, Samsung’s proprietary plastic that’s designed to look and feel like glass, on the rear. Whatever Samsung might promise, it certainly doesn’t feel like a high-end glass rear, although the matte finish does mean it’s less of a fingerprint magnet than
