Galaxy S21, S21+ battery capacities confirmed in underwhelming leak

Last updated: September 5th, 2020 at sixteen:26 UTC+01:00

Samsung's get-go 2021 flagships are shaping up to be rather unremarkable in the battery department, with newly emerged certificates suggesting no notable improvements in terms of raw capacities. More specifically, Cathay'south telecom authority CCC just certfied a pair of batteries believed to vest to the Galaxy S21 and Galaxy S21+, identified as the EB-BG991ABY and EB-BG996ABY, respectively. We'd already learned about the latter several weeks dorsum, and today's 3C certificate gives more than credibility to that before sighting as it once again points to a prison cell with a rated capacity of 4,660mAh.

As for the EB-BG991ABY, the aforementioned certification points to a three,880mAh rating, which would suggest a typical capacity in the ballpark of 4,000mAh. In other words, the base Galaxy S21 (SM-G991) model will likely offer no changes in terms of battery capacity over this year's Galaxy S20.

Similar battery capacities don't necessarily equate to identical battery life

The Galaxy S20+ successor, on the other hand, will seemingly deliver a more than meaningful upgrade every bit far equally raw figures are concerned, because the now-twice-confirmed iv,660mAh rating should amount to a typical battery capacity of about 4,800mAh. For added context, the integrated jail cell of the Galaxy S20+ offers 4,500mAh of typical capacity.

Of course, pocket-sized capacity improvements don't necessarily mean the upcoming Android flagships won't offer significantly better battery life in existent-earth scenarios. But they do make that possibility less likely, peculiarly for the international models expected to employ the Exynos one thousand SoC, as most recently illustrated by Samsung's struggles with the Exynos 990 over the course of this yr.

In any case, it's worth remembering that Samsung all the same hasn't firmly decided how information technology's going to call the successors to the Milky way S20-serial devices. Likewise "Galaxy S21," another obvious candidate for the proper noun of the upcoming lineup is "Galaxy S30." The visitor is likely to make a final decision on the matter by the end of the year, around the time its new flagships have their first trial production run. Every bit always, the Galaxy S21/S30 family is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2021, near likely in February.