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Phone delays are nothing unusual, but few phones have been as delayed as the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. First tipped by leakers to launch as early as August 2021, the phone instead didn’t launch until January 2022, when Samsung unveiled the new handset at CES in Las Vegas – over 11 months after the other S21 phones arrived.
That delay hasn’t had a direct impact on the phone itself, but does change where it sits in the market. The tech here is a few months older than it should be, the rivals it would have had last summer have since had price cuts (as has the regular S21, lest we forget). So while there’s nothing wrong with the S21 FE per se – it’s a pretty great phone, really – it’s trickier to recommend right now, as at full price there are better buys elsewhere.
DESIGN
It only takes one glance at the S21 FE to see what it shares in common with the rest of the S21 line. From the front it looks almost identical to the other S21 phones, with a slim bezel and central punch-hole selfie camera, while on the rear you’ll spot
