Samsung Galaxy S22 launch date and release date just tipped by leaker

Samsung Galaxy S22 launch date and release date merely tipped past leaker

A cropped leaked poster showing the Samsung Galaxy S22 (right, in white), overlain by the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (in red-bronze) and its S Pen stylus

(Image credit: LetsGoDigital)

We may not see the Samsung Galaxy S22 launch when we expected, going by a new circular of release date leaks.

Jon Prosser (backed upwardly by boyfriend leaker Max Weinbach) claims that the Galaxy S22 serial' launch will be "delayed" past a twenty-four hours. February 9 volition now supposedly be the twenty-four hour period Samsung introduces usa to its flagship phone for the yr, rather than Feb 8 as had previously been rumored by Prosser.

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The retail date however has been knocked back a whole calendar week, to Feb 25. Bad news if you lot wanted to selection up the phone without gambling on a pre-order.

The reasoning Prosser gives for the delays is Samsung'southward supply chain. This maybe explains why the pre-gild date (which doesn't rely on having concrete units ready at that precise moment) hasn't changed much, while the retail release date has.

Permit's just hope this doesn't turn into another Samsung Milky way S21 Iron state of affairs. That telephone was probable meant to arrive in October this year, or mayhap even earlier. However at present information technology'south rumored to exist launching in January, having had to boxing several months of product problems to become at that place.

A new poster leak

Delaying the Galaxy S22's launch hasn't delayed other leaks though, such as this new prototype of the Galaxy S22 and the S22 Ultra. This slice of official-looking promo material was published by LetsGoDigital, which claims that it has verified that the image is 18-carat.

A leaked poster showing the Samsung Galaxy S22 (right, in white), overlain by the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (in red-bronze) and its S Pen stylus — (Image credit: LetsGoDigital)

The standard Galaxy S22 (on the right in white and silvery), looking like a simplified version of the Samsung Galaxy S21. The camera bump yet sits correct in the top left corner of the phone, but it no longer overlaps the telephone's side runway, and looks to be much flatter every bit well.

The Milky way S22 Ultra looks very unlike. Information technology has five camera sensors all embedded individually into the back, rather than together in a single block. Nosotros can also see the all-black S Pen stylus resting on top, which looks like the built-in stylus that nosotros've been hearing the S22 Ultra would be receiving, rather than the separate accompaniment you could purchase for the Galaxy S21 Ultra.

That Southward Pen focus had led some to believe that Samsung could rename the Ultra model to the Galaxy S22 Note this year. But as we tin encounter from the affiche, it seems that Samsung's sticking to the existing Ultra monicker.

We can too run into the Galaxy S22 Ultra'south color, a blood-red-statuary colour. Information technology looks like to the Mystic Bronze color that Samsung offered on the Samsung Galaxy Annotation 20 and the Galaxy Z Fold 2, but it'south not quite the same. There take been rumors of a red Galaxy S22 Ultra colour existence an option, then mayhap this is what those rumors meant, rather than the brighter color you may take imagined.

Until February ix then (as we covered above), we won't get an official rundown of the Galaxy S22 series' specs. Happily a bagful of leaks are already out at that place to help us get some thought of what to expect.

One of the big changes includes the new 6.06-inch and 6.55-inch handset sizes for the Milky way S22 and Milky way S22 Plus, which are notably smaller than the concluding couple of years' handsets. Both of these phones are besides said to exist getting some big camera system changes, including a 50MP chief camera and a 3x optical zoom telephoto camera.

The Galaxy S22 Ultra is thought to be getting a wider, squarer torso shape (another similarity with Galaxy Note phones), and the nearly RAM of any of the phones in the range, only like the Milky way S21 Ultra that came earlier it. All three models are believed to be powered past the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset in the U.S., while most other countries could apply a new Samsung-made Exynos 2200 chip.

Richard is a Tom's Guide staff writer based in London, covering news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, audio and any else people need advice on. He's also written for WIRED U.Grand., The Register and Creative Bloq. When not at work, he's probable thinking about how to brew the perfect cup of specialty java.