Samsung Galaxy Note 21 may have just been teased at CES 2022

Samsung Galaxy Note 21 may have simply been teased at CES 2021

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The Samsung Milky way Note 21 might have just been quietly teased at CES 2021.

An innocuous Samsung CES 2021 promotional video about the new Galaxy Upcycling program showed off a phone with a design that looks a lot like the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, merely with no punch-hole selfie photographic camera.

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In the part of the video starting at 2:xv, where Samsung's representative talks about using an former Galaxy phone equally a baby monitor, the parent's device is shown briefly on screen. As mentioned, information technology looks a lot like a Galaxy Note twenty or Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, only without any camera notch, potentially suggesting the device has an nether-brandish front-facing camera; if it'southward indeed a existent phone. And it's this small item that has people wondering if this is an early on surprise appearance of the Milky way Notation 21.

While the Korean company's already shown off a robot vacuum, a rotating Idiot box and new Neo QLED and MicroLED brandish applied science at CES, this would be the highest-profile thing it has shown off past far.

Under-display photographic camera phones are slowly becoming a reality, with the ZTE Axon twenty 5G being first to market. Information technology'south been rumored for some fourth dimension that Samsung is on the verge of introducing a sub-console selfie photographic camera in i of its flagships. But since the Samsung Milky way S21 looks to still use a punch-hole camera, attending is now turning to the Galaxy Note 21 every bit the side by side likely candidate.

If this isn't a concept for a notch-less telephone, then the most obvious answer would be it's a rendered image added in post-production. However, it's not articulate why Samsung would go to the effort of excluding the photographic camera punch-pigsty, every bit it doesn't intrude on the notification shown on screen.

Even if this was the Milky way Note 21, we'd still likely take to wait until the Autumn of this year before it launches. That'due south alright though since nosotros've got the Galaxy S21 launching in just two days' fourth dimension on January 14.

The Galaxy S21 will one time once again come in iii dissimilar versions, according to multiple rumors. The basic model will be a vi.2-inch device with three cameras on the back, while the S21 Ultra will be 6.8 inches, and have iv rear cameras plus an autofocus sensor.

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