After last year's forced stop due to pandemic, Samsung tries again with Tokyo 2021: here is Samsung Galaxy S21 5G Olympic Games Edition.
Samsung is trying again this year with Galaxy S21, after last year's attempt with Galaxy S20+ failed due to the Covid-19 pandemic just like the Olympics. So the Seoul-based company announces the Olympic Games Edition of its Galaxy S21, which reflexively becomes the official smartphone of the Tokyo Olympics.
There remains a halo of uncertainty, however, as much about whether Galaxy S21 and Samsung will receive the visibility expected from an event followed worldwide, as, above all, about whether the Tokyo Olympic Games will finally kick off. They are marked on the calendar from July 23 to August 8, but in Japan there is a fear that in that period there could be a fourth wave of the epidemic that would force the organizers to cancel everything, once again. The vaccination campaign is proceeding slowly from the parts of Tokyo, and the risk of another postponement is considered quite concrete.
Here's the Samsung Galaxy of Tokyo 2021
For sure, if the doors of the Olympics should open, Samsung Galaxy S21 will be the official smartphone of the event. Samsung Galaxy S21 5G Olympic Games Edition is already available for purchase for the moment, however, only in Japan through the online shop DoCoMo, perhaps because of the initiative chosen to push sales.
In fact, those who buy a Samsung Galaxy S21 5G Olympic Games Edition earn the opportunity to be part of a pool of 200 customers drawn that implies participation as a guest at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, an event capable of giving a show always exciting.
The peculiarities of Samsung Galaxy S21 5G Olympic Games Edition involve the coloration between blue and purple - called Phantom Blue - , the profile of the photo module in gold coloration, the Olympics logo on the back and then changes to the software between wallpapers and animation of startup and shutdown dedicated and finally a special sales package on which, however, we have no further information.
The more curious know that Samsung Galaxy S21 5G Olympic Games Edition has Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 SoC - instead of the Exynos 2100 manufactured by Samsung with which it is sold in Italy - along with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage space.
The Tokyo 2021 Olympics won't be the last Olympic beach for Samsung, however, as it announced in 2018 that it has extended the partnership it inaugurated in 1998 with the Olympic committee until 2028, an edition that will feature the city of Los Angeles.