In 2020, Samsung released its first ever Fan Edition smartphone, the Galaxy S20 FE. And it comes in two versions: a 4G with the company’s Exynos 990 SoC and a 5G variant with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865. Fast forward to January, and finally arrives the Galaxy S21 FE, but in a single iteration, with the 5G capable Snapdragon 888 at the helm.
We speculated that there wouldn’t be a 4G-only version of the S21 FE, as 5G networks are increasingly popular around the world these days, and even midrangers now pretty much all have 5G support as standard. But Samsung wants to surprise us, apparently, so it’s working on a 4G version of the Galaxy S21 FE.
Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G
While the 5G version has the model number SM-G990B, the folks at the Galaxy Club have unearthed an upcoming SM-G990B2 that is in the making, complete with its own separate firmware. That model was recently certified by the Bluetooth SIG and has Bluetooth 5.2 built in, while the G990B, also known as the S21 FE 5G, only has Bluetooth 5.0.
The S21 FE 4G will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 720G chipset, according to several listings in Scandinavian online stores, as well as stores in Belgium and the Netherlands.
That SoC was used by Samsung in last year’s Galaxy A52 and also by the Xiaomi Redmi sub-brand in a multitude of devices. It’s much lower than the Snapdragon 888 found inside the S21 FE 5G, which means the S21 FE 4G also needs to be cheaper. It is unclear if there will be any other hardware differences between the two.
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