With the Galaxy S20 announced and due for release later this week, Samsung's engineering team is now working on the company's next big flagship -- the Galaxy Note20. Samsung has always gone all out with its Galaxy Note lineup, though this time around, the company could be looking to cut corners. A leak points to the SM-N981 variant of the Galaxy Note20 coming with 128GB of storage space. That would be an odd move from the company, especially since it shipped the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ with 256GB base storage.
It is puzzling to see Samsung go back to 128GB of base storage on the Galaxy Note series, though the company could have taken this decision to reduce its BOM (Bills of Material). The inclusion of a 128GB storage chip also means that this time around, the base Galaxy Note20 variant will possibly feature a microSD card slot. Last year, Samsung only kept the microSD card slot around on the bigger Note10+.
Like the Galaxy S20, the Galaxy Note20 series should also be able to record 8K videos. Considering that a minute of 8K video shot on the S20 takes nearly 600MB of space, 128GB of base storage could end up not being sufficient for many Note20 users. Samsung could work around this by including a mciroSD card slot on the device thereby allowing users to increase the storage on the device for cheap as and when required.
At the moment, it is unclear if Samsung will follow the same strategy as the Galaxy Note10 for the Note20 lineup this year and release two devices with similar internals but varying screen sizes.
Source: SamMobile
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