A small bump for one large Galaxy
We know hardware obsessives like big batteries and they cannot lie. And with the way phones are growing these days, there comes the desire, maybe even a need to expand the power plant, too. As it is, we now have evidence that Samsung will pack in a bigger battery on the Galaxy S21+/S30+ than it did on the S20+.
Shocking, right? But an annual uptick has never been guaranteed in this department: the Galaxy S8+ took a dip from the S7 edge while the S9+ kept things level. It was only the S10+ that brought the battery capacity up from 3,500mAh to 4,100mAh. The S20+ then ramped it up to 4,500mAh.
For 2021, the Galaxy S21+ (if we're matching to the year) or S30+ (if the marketing folks still want to go with a jump by 10) might pack 4,660mAh. The image above of said battery comes from the Korean Communications Commission via SamMobile. The part is named EB-G996ABY — it's expected that the Galaxy S30+ equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 will have model name SM-G996 — and is noted to have a design capacity of 4,800mAh.
The same publication also posted supposed listings from a Chinese Compulsory Certification repository earlier this month which list the EB-BG996ABY with a 4,660mAh rated capacity. It also included a cert for the EB-BG991ABY, likely the Galaxy S21, and a 3,880mAh rating — this may translate to a 4,000mAh typical capacity and no change from the S20. Both components are manufactured by Amperex.
We know hardware obsessives like big batteries and they cannot lie. And with the way phones are growing these days, there comes the desire, maybe even a need to expand the power plant, too. As it is, we now have evidence that Samsung will pack in a bigger battery on the Galaxy S21+/S30+ than it did on the S20+.
Shocking, right? But an annual uptick has never been guaranteed in this department: the Galaxy S8+ took a dip from the S7 edge while the S9+ kept things level. It was only the S10+ that brought the battery capacity up from 3,500mAh to 4,100mAh. The S20+ then ramped it up to 4,500mAh.
For 2021, the Galaxy S21+ (if we're matching to the year) or S30+ (if the marketing folks still want to go with a jump by 10) might pack 4,660mAh. The image above of said battery comes from the Korean Communications Commission via SamMobile. The part is named EB-G996ABY — it's expected that the Galaxy S30+ equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 will have model name SM-G996 — and is noted to have a design capacity of 4,800mAh.
The same publication also posted supposed listings from a Chinese Compulsory Certification repository earlier this month which list the EB-BG996ABY with a 4,660mAh rated capacity. It also included a cert for the EB-BG991ABY, likely the Galaxy S21, and a 3,880mAh rating — this may translate to a 4,000mAh typical capacity and no change from the S20. Both components are manufactured by Amperex.
