Samsung Galaxy S24 FE And Watch FE LTE – Key Details You’ll Want To Know

The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE is a large beast, with a 6.7-inch 120Hz display. It runs on Samsung’s own Exynos 2400e chipset and has a 4,700 mAh battery. All variants come with 8GB of RAM and 128, 256, or 512 GB of storage. On the back, you have a 50-megapixel primary camera, a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera, and an 8-megapixel telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom. On the front, you get a 10-megapixel selfie camera. The phone comes in four colors — blue, mint, graphite, and gray.

Those are all pretty standard specifications for a fan edition phone. The exciting parts of that are arguably the 50-megapixel main camera, which will likely be pretty good, based on past experience with Samsung phones. The ultrawide and telephoto cameras are there. It’s the same camera setup as the S23 FE, which was certainly good, but not great. I think most people will be excited by the Galaxy FE’s large, excellent display and corresponding battery. This is a phone that will consume content with the best of them.

The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE starts at $650, which is not a huge discount over the S24, but it’s a nice middle ground between the S Series of phones and the A Series of phones. You can preorder it today from Samsung.com, and it ships on October 3.

Of course, Samsung brought the AI, which is nice to see in a midrange offering like this. We’ve already seen what a lot of these AI tricks can do, including Generative Edit, Portrait Studio, Interpreter, Live translate, and the like. One fun addition was Instant Slow-mo, which was of course available before in Samsung flagship phones.

The trick here is, I’ll be interested to see how well the AI works running on Samsung’s silicon. I’ve only experienced these features on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy processor, which was designed with AI in mind. I’m positive Samsung also designed the latest Exynos processors with AI on the brain, but traditionally, Exynos processors have struggled to keep up with their Qualcomm counterparts. Considering the Exynos 2400e is itself a slightly less impressive processor, that’s going to require some long-haul testing. What I tried in the demo area seemed ok, but there’s only so much a demo will show you.

Samsung also updated its Galaxy Watch FE to include LTE bands, which is a nice upgrade. The Watch FE launched in June originally, with a 40-millimeter casing, 1.2 Super AMOLED display, 1.5GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, all running with Samsung’s Exynos W920 processor. The Watch FE originally launched for $200.

The Watch FE comes with most of the features found on the flagship lineup, with the major exception of Sleep Apnea monitoring. That’s not too bad a corner to cut, since my own testing with the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra found Sleep Apnea monitoring to be inconsistent. You also have to compromise with a smaller battery than the flagship variants, which could be problematic once you factor in LTE connectivity, which tends to be a drain on watch batteries.

Still, it’s affordable at $250, which is just $50 more than the non-LTE version. That’s a nice deal. Preorders start today, and it will be available on October 3.