Samsung Galaxy S23 series to debut in February 2023 with Snapdragon chipset: Report | Digit

Samsung Galaxy S series is among the most popular Android smartphones worldwide. Earlier this year, the company revealed the Galaxy S22 Ultra, a hybrid device with the characteristics of a Galaxy S series device and a Galaxy Note device. Even in the last few months of 2022, the Galaxy S22 Ultra remains one of the best Android smartphones. However, that might change in a couple of months.

Samsung Galaxy S23 series to hit the market in February, 2023

The South Korean tech giant is gearing up to release the successor of the Galaxy S22 Ultra, the Galaxy S23 Ultra. As per a new report, Samsung will release the S23 series in February 2023, which could comprise three smartphones, including Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus, and Galaxy S23 Ultra. The Galaxy S22 series also came out in February, 2022. 

The report by Chosun claims that Samsung will announce the Galaxy S23 Ultra, along with other devices in the Galaxy S23 series, in the first week of February 2023, and the release date will follow a bit later. In addition, the report also says that the company will hold a physical, in-person event in San Francisco to reveal its next flagship series. 

For those catching up, the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event for Galaxy S23 series will be the first in-person event since the Galaxy S20 series came out in 2020. In 2021 and 2022, Samsung released many devices, such as the Galaxy S21 series, Galaxy S22 series, and two iterations of the Galaxy Z Fold & Flip series, but did not conduct an offline event. 

Samsung to ship a majority of units with Snapdragon chipset

A report from 9To5Google says that Samsung “won’t be using Exynos in a meaningful capacity on the Galaxy S23 series.” For years, Samsung shipped a significant number of flagship Galaxy devices with its Exynos chipset. However, since the chipsets could not maintain parity with Snapdragon chips, Samsung seems to have decided to stick to only Snapdragon processors. 

In addition, Qualcomm’s CFO Akash Palkhiwala had said in an earnings call that “our [Qualcomm’s] share from 75% in G S22 goes up to global share in G 23,” which is another indication that all the units sold across the globe will feature Snapdragon processors. 

Last month, the Galaxy S23 Ultra visited the popular benchmarking platform Geekbench. Its listing revealed that it runs on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, a chipset yet to be released. Along with that, the S23 Ultra featured 8GB of RAM and ran on Android 13. As per the Geekbench scores, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 offers about 15% better performance than the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 but is still not close to Apple’s A16 Bionic chipset. We should be getting more concrete details in the days leading up to the launch.

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