We’re seemingly only a few months away from the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S23 line, however as traditional most of the new options and enhancements could be rumored earlier than launch, with two potential upgrades having simply been leaked.

First up, there’s the potential for the Samsung Galaxy S23 line to help satellite tv for pc communications in some type. This comes from a report on ETNews (opens in new tab), which states that Samsung is working with Iridium – a worldwide satellite tv for pc communications firm – to supply this performance on the Galaxy S23 line.

Whereas Iridium is able to offering voice and information communication providers, Samsung will reportedly be limiting the S23’s satellite tv for pc abilities to textual content messages and small photographs, on account of solely having the ability to put a small antenna in a cellphone.

Which may sound restrictive, however it must be sufficient that can assist you attain out to contacts or the emergency providers in conditions the place there’s no cell sign.

Right this moment’s different Samsung Galaxy S23 leak relates particularly to the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely, which is able to reportedly have a display screen that may attain as much as 2,150 nits of brightness – or possibly even increased.

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The supply of that is @RGcloudS (opens in new tab), who made the declare on Twitter (noticed by SamMobile (opens in new tab)), however famous that the max brightness could be barely completely different at launch – probably even topping 2,200 nits – on account of additional changes.

For reference, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Extremely tops out at 1,750 nits of brightness, so this might be an improve, which might be useful for serving to you clearly see the display screen in brilliant daylight. We’d nonetheless take this with a pinch of salt, particularly because the supply doesn’t have a lot of a observe file but.

Evaluation: matching and beating the iPhone 14 Professional Max

The brightest smartphone display screen on the planet at present is the iPhone 14 Professional Max’s, which may attain 2,000 nits, so if this leak is true then Samsung will beat Apple and take the brand new file.

However Samsung may even be competing with Apple if its upcoming telephones help satellite tv for pc communications, as proper now the iPhone 14 line is amongst a really small variety of handsets which have this performance.

Nevertheless, questions stay over how Samsung’s implementation will examine to Apple’s – if it occurs in any respect – and which might be higher.

On the iPhone 14 sequence, you’re restricted to contacting the emergency providers, and the function is at present solely out there within the US and Canada. So it stays to be seen whether or not Samsung will enable extra basic satellite tv for pc communications, and what components of the world its service might be out there in.

Nonetheless, it’s good to see extra firms discover this concept, as a result of it’s a probably life-saving function, and one which we’d hope to see on many of the greatest telephones within the subsequent few years.