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- A new leak tells us that Samsung’s Galaxy S21 will copy one of the iPhone 12’s most controversial feature.
- Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel approved the three Galaxy S21 handsets ahead of the mid-January launch, revealing several details about them.
- The documentation says the phones will ship without free chargers and earphones, just like the iPhone 12.
The best thing Samsung ever did to conquer the mobile market was to blatantly copy the iPhone. It’s what allowed its Android phones to grow in popularity in the first years when Galaxy S devices looked and felt like iPhone lookalikes. The lawsuits that followed forced Samsung to refine smartphone design and software further and find its own voice. But by the time it happened, Samsung was already at the top of the mobile industry. Even so, Samsung did not take any big risks to push the industry forward. The Galaxy Note is one exception, and the Galaxy Fold another. But these novelties in the mobile business appeared many years apart.
Samsung kept improving the Galaxy S and Note every year but kept following Apple’s lead rather than setting the tone in the mobile industry. And Samsung kept criticizing Apple’s more controversial moves, only to copy them later. The best example is the headphone jack, which Samsung kept in place several years after Apple unveiled the iPhone 7, the first iPhone not to feature a 3.5mm audio port. Samsung mocked Apple in online commercials, which it then had to delete from the web once the first Galaxy phones without headphone jacks arrived. Samsung is now ready to copy the iPhone 12’s most controversial move, and this time around, it won’t wait years to do it.
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Leak confirms Galaxy S21 will copy the iPhone 12 originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 06:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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