Fans of Samsung’s Fan Edition phones will have to live with the Korean company’s Exynos chipset when the next one hits the streets. This has been rumored for quite some time now, and today it’s practically confirmed by a benchmark run.
A prototype of the upcoming Galaxy S23 FE ran Geekbench, with model number SM-S711B, featuring the Exynos 2200 SoC and 8GB of RAM. Unsurprisingly, the software he had installed was Android 13.
The Exynos 2200 was used on last year’s Galaxy S22 line in Europe. The S23 models only use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 this year, but the S23 FE will, according to multiple sources, stick with the Exynos 2200 globally.
The previous FE model was the S21 FE, released in January 2022 in two versions, one with the Snapdragon 888, the other with the Exynos 2100, the predecessor of the 2200. So, in a sense, it all makes sense, if you ignore the fact that Samsung skipped the S22 FE entirely. The S23 FE has the Exynos 2200, the successor to the Exynos 2100 in some versions of the S21 FE.
Samsung is said to be launching the S23 FE with the Exynos 2200 to get rid of the excess stock of the SoC. The phone is expected to be available in the third quarter of this year, so from now until the end of September. It may feature an upgrade to the camera system over the S21 FE.
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