Samsung's next flagship smartphone design has been leaked and it looks to have similar features compared to the latest iPhone. This leak hasn't been verified by Samsung but does provide insight to the South Korean company's direction in the future.
While Samsung has had great success with its Galaxy S lineup, it's been the opposite with its Fold device despite its unique features. Earlier this year, the tech giant had to postpone the Fold due to hardware issues that many reviewers experienced testing the dual-screen smartphone. Samsung also kept the 3.5mm headphone jack on all versions of the S10, while Apple has phased out this once-standard feature in order to optimize performance. It's important to mention that the Samsung Note 10+ did remove the headphone jack, which may slyly hint at the new direction the company's direction is taking with its Galaxy smartphones if the leaked photos are true.
The Samsung S11+ leaks, which was released by Steve Hemmerstoffer via Twitter @Onleaks, looks to rival what other companies have been using to innovate its smartphones this year, with excessively big rear cameras. The leaked images show that it has five lenses, two more than the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max and more than double the amount that Google's Pixel 4 XL has. The camera specs haven't been disclosed, though there have been murmurs that it'll have 5x optical zoom with a 108 megapixel lens, a telephoto and ultra-wide lens and a time-of-flight sensor. The proposed S11+ also looks strikingly similar to its Note 10+, having its 'Infinity-O' hole-punch front camera in the top-middle instead of the top-right.
Samsung's next flagship phone will also supposedly have a 6.9-inch 120Hz touch display with a length and width of 166.9 x 76 x 8mm, making it bigger in all areas than its predecessor. Like Samsung's Note 10+, these leaks show that the S11+ will also have its headphone jack removed. It was quite an interesting move, especially when the company took jabs at Apple not too long ago for removing this feature from all its smartphones. And now on top of that it's taking Apple's meme-worthy number of cameras and adding more.
This may show a different approach that Samsung may be taking into the new decade. Samsung has often experimented with different designs, whether it's with the hole-punched front camera or the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor. Now, Samsung looks to be doing the reverse of what Apple has been known for, refining smartphones rather than reinventing the wheel. For example, Apple was panned by the South Korean tech company for removing the headphone jack, yet it followed suit this year with the Note 10+. If this leak turns out to be true, Samsung has now also followed Apple's approach of having huge powerful camera lenses at the back of its devices. However, it might be the case that Samsung will be more innovative in its software instead.
The Galaxy S11+ may be revealed early next year, during Samsung's annual event in February.
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