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Andy Meek
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We know when the big reveal is happening for the hotly anticipated new phones in Samsung’s Galaxy S series (February 11). Invites have gone out for the event, at which we also know that a new foldable phone will finally be introduced after months of rumor and speculation. For all of those phones, meanwhile, new sources are confirming the official naming schemes that Samsung has decided to go with -- and in at least one instance, it’s something new that no one was expecting.
The bottom line: A fresh report citing a Samsung Electronics insider as well as a retail industry source points to what everyone already assumed, relative to the new Galaxy S handsets. The company is indeed going to forgo the Galaxy S11 branding to call its next flagship, instead, the Galaxy S20 -- celebrating both the start of the new decade as well as trying to correct an impression some people might have that the phone is a generation behind Apple (which will have moved on to the iPhone 12 later this year). And in the case of the foldable phone, new reporting is also revealing that Samsung has said in private meetings this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the phone we've all been unofficially referring to as the Galaxy Fold 2 will be known instead as the Galaxy Bloom, and that its compact clamshell form was inspired Lancome's makeup compacts. So it should come as no surprise that the thinking is Samsung wants to market the latter heavily to young adult women.
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Samsung leaks: New sources confirm a big Galaxy S11 change and Galaxy Fold 2’s official name originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 08:21:49 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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