Flipkart is kicking off its Huge Billion Days sale with a shock blast from the previous – the Samsung Galaxy S24. Apparently, now it options the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as a substitute of the Exynos 2400 that the S24 (and S24+) received the primary time round (for markets apart from the US, Canada and China). Huh?
The Snapdragon-powered mannequin is presently on pre-order. You will discover the 8/128GB model for ₹75,000 and the 8/256GB model for ₹80,000. For comparability, the unique launch worth of the 8/256GB mannequin was precisely ₹80,000.
We’re undecided this makes any sense, although. Flipkart itself will promote you a Galaxy S25 (12/256GB) for ₹75,000. Positive, you might want Snapdragon over Exynos, however wouldn’t you favor an 8 Elite over an 8 Gen 3? As a result of that’s what the S25 has inside (plus 4GB extra RAM). Each are the overclocked “for Galaxy” variants of the respective chips, by the way in which.
Observe that the unique Exynos variant of the S24 is gone from Flipkart. It’s nonetheless on Samsung India’s website, although. Nonetheless, that website makes no point out of a Snapdragon variant for the nation. Go determine.
Samsung Galaxy S24 with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 arrives in India
Anyway, the Galaxy S24 Snapdragon as it’s known as on Flipkart, launches with Android 15 out of the field (the unique got here with v14). It has a mannequin quantity SM-S921E – notice the final letter, the unique Exynos-based cellphone for India was SM-S921B.
The Galaxy S24+, which additionally used an Exynos 2400 for the Indian market, will not be getting a Snapdragon re-release. Even when it was, we’d in all probability level you to the S25+ as a substitute, particularly if the pricing works out the identical method as with the smaller mannequin.
In fact, the Galaxy S24 Extremely completely used the Snapdragon chip in all markets, so no must re-release that.