When Samsung first launched its line of “FE” products, it readily admitted the moniker stood for “Fan Edition.” The idea was to slightly water down its most popular flagship products to make them still rock-solid devices but less expensive overall. Eventually, though, the company dropped the Fan Edition nomenclature and just kept the FE label. Today, the company launched the latest entry in this family: the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE.
Obviously, this isn’t a Fan Edition phone because Samsung doesn’t use that term anymore, but that doesn’t stop me from thinking that the FE line is still where Samsung puts new editions of a product designed with its fans in mind. After playing around with the Galaxy S24 FE a bit today in New York City, I came away impressed while simultaneously questioning whether or not this phone is anything Samsung fans would actually want.