Samsung Galaxy Note 20 leak reveals biggest design change in 6 years

Samsung Milky way Note xx leak reveals biggest pattern change in 6 years

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Samsung may go out the Galaxy Note twenty without ane of the company's most famous features: a curved display.

This surprising and unofficial news comes from Ice Universe (via SamMobile) on Twitter, who noted that the smaller of the Galaxy Note 20 handsets volition come up with a flat display. Ice Universe has a solid runway record for tech leaks, so this screen titbit could be on the money.

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Samsung first offered curved displays on 'Edge' variants of its main flagship lines, starting with the Milky way Notation Edge in 2014, with 2015'due south Galaxy S6 Edge Plus being the starting time curved display phone the visitor released globally. The visitor so moved to curved displays simply with the Milky way Note 7 and Galaxy S8, including last yr's Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10. All the same some cheaper versions of these phones, for example the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10 Lite and Galaxy Note 10 Lite, had apartment screens instead.

Peradventure we should have expected this earlier in the yr when the Galaxy S20 was revealed to have a less pronounced curve in its edge-to-edge brandish than its predecessors. And some people tend to observe that phones with large displays are easier to handle if they don't have curved edges; for case, we found the curved display on the OnePlus 8 Pro made it too easy to accidentally tap the screen.

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Given that the Annotation serial' calling card is the S Pen, a flat panel on the Galaxy Note 20 might brand using the stylus on the surface area of the telephone's screen easier, equally no curved edges make it less probable the S Pen will skid off the screen.

However, the Milky way Note 20 is expected to come in a couple of different sizes, with a Plus or even Galaxy Notation xx Ultra variants. And and then far there'southward been no indication that the larger Annotation 20 handsets volition drop the curved display. Having the smaller Note 20 use a flat screen and equipping the larger phones with curved displays will be i way for Samsung to inject some variation between the Notation 20 models.

We'll know how true this rumor will be in August. That's when Samsung is evidently planning a Galaxy Unpacked consequence that will show off the Galaxy Fold 2, Galaxy Watch 2 and Milky way Z Flip 5G besides equally the Note 20.

We tin can expect the Annotation 20 to employ the same pattern cues, 5G-gear up Snapdragon 865 chipset, camera sensors as the Galaxy S20 series. All the same, the Notation 20 Plus may add a laser focus sensor on the back to aid its cameras focus faster likewise equally gain admission to an improved 108MP sensor.

There are rumors that but the Note twenty Plus and Note 20 Ultra volition get admission to a 120Hz refresh rate brandish. But the jury is still out on this.

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