All the rumors about the Samsung S26 Ultra

The Galaxy S26 Ultra and S26 series are set to hit the market in the next two to three months. In this article, we are going to go over all the rumors about what changes are going to happen in them? Should we be excited about them or not? We are going to look at the rumors about the next flagship of Samsung; the flagship that will probably be the basis of all flagship comparisons for a year.

Review of the Samsung S26 Ultra design rumors

Let’s move on to the first part, the design. Where a few cool things happened. First, many rumors say that one of the colors of the S26 series is orange. Orange is going to be added; not just any orange, the same orange that the iPhone unveiled 2 months ago and the whole world was saying: What is this garbage color? What is this? What color is this? Now the S26 is going to have the same color in it. Now whether it will be on the Ultra or on the S26 Plus, this is still a matter of debate. I mean, many people say that it won’t come to the Ultra, it will come to the regular S26s and Plus; but anyway, we have the orange color.

Return of the Camera Island

Another change that will be in the design of the S26s is that the Camera Island will be added again. In the last 3-4 years, Samsung’s flagship cameras had island protrusions in their lenses, for example, and each of them protruded independently from the body; it was a cool design. But this year, Samsung wants to add an island under the lenses, meaning they are no longer independent of each other and are protruded in two stages. Why is this happening now?
The reason is that the stabilizer that is going to be used in the next series of Samsung flagships is a bit larger and Samsung can’t fit it in the thin thickness. It has to raise the lens a little higher, so that it can place its stabilizer below.(OnePlus 15 Disassembly)

Now here’s another thing; thinness. Many say that Samsung’s next flagship will be thinner, and some even say that it will be so thin that it may bend or something may happen to it! But there are rumors that the thickness of future flagships is going to be thinner, about two or three tenths of a millimeter, and we’ll have to see if it works. Now, how does this thickness affect the battery? I’ll tell you later.
The design is very similar to the iPhone; that is, the edges are more rounded and the flat and the edges on the sides and sides are going to be a bit softer, like the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro Max. And this is strange; three or four months after Apple, Samsung always comes out and looks a bit like Apple, I swear!

Review of the Samsung S26 Ultra phone screen rumors

The next part is the screen section; Where an M14 OLED panel is going to come, in terms of color and in terms of the technologies in its brightness, color density, and color accuracy, Samsung is going to beat all the flagships. They say the panel is a strangely good panel.
Now, apart from the great quality of its screen, the 6.9-inch version has a cool feature. One cool feature is that it comes with a privacy mode without having to install glasses. Have you seen privacy glasses? When you sit on the subway, for example, can’t you see it from here and there? The display itself is going to have a similar feature. That is, if it detects that someone is looking at your phone from the side, that privacy mode will be activated and you can only see the display from your own perspective.

Subway food; It’s like they took Samsung executives on a tour, just by moving them around on the subway! This guy took out his phone, Mr. Kim Jing-oh looks like he’s chatting with his girlfriend (of course, Mr. Kim Jing-oh probably has a wife!) about what to buy and so on for the night, then he sent one of these photos to Atishia, someone looked! Samsung said: I’ll put the base privacy on my panel from the beginning. I think it’s a cool feature if it works properly. It’s unlikely to happen, but it’s in the rumors.(Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 4G long-term review)

There’s another important point about this display: the punch hole. The same hole where the selfie camera is supposed to be, that hole is the biggest possible in the history of the Galaxy. Why? Because they’re making the selfie sensor bigger and we see a big hole. No matter how much you calculate it, it’s smaller than the iPhone’s Dynamic Island, but we have a big hole in the display that increases the display’s borders and probably makes it more noticeable. But in return, we’ll probably have a cooler selfie. Why is the selfie cooler? Because Apple unveiled a selfie on the 17 series this year that the world had never seen before, and Samsung said this is it? I will make the hole bigger, I will make the sensor bigger so that it can do more cool things.

Review of Samsung S26 Ultra battery rumors

Let’s move on to the battery section. The rumors about the S26 battery (especially the S26 Ultra) are that its battery is 5400 mAh (some series say 5300, some series say 5400); which means that its battery has improved a bit. There is still no news about silicon carbon and it is a battery that we will have to test now to see what happens.(Buying Guide for the Best Neckband Headphones)

But there are a few points; that Samsung is finally going to go higher than 45 watts and go to 60 watts. Of course, some series say that this 60 watts is mentioned, but when it is actually running, it will probably be the same 45 because it heats up the phone. That is, Samsung says at its event that it is 60 watts, but in practice it will probably continue with the same 45 watts. But as long as it has 60, it is still good. But when you hit that 60, the phone itself decides not to take more than 45! That is, it leaves 15 so that fans of Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, and those who put in fast chargers, will be like: Well, now it is 60 watts and that’s okay.

Samsung’s MagSafe and the Sacrifice of the S-Pen

There is a very important point in this matter. If Samsung wants to use the latest wireless charging technology, what will happen? Qi2, it must put MagSafe in its phone. That means Samsung’s MagSafe ecosystem is also going to be added; a magnet will be the same as Apple’s MagSafe on the back. Why? Because 25W and higher wireless charging requires you to have that magnet and MagSafe, and probably various accessories that attach to this magnet are also going to be added. That Samsung MagSafe ecosystem (which we don’t know what it’s called now) is coming. For example, there was a Pixel Stand for Pixels that you could stick something to the back, now we don’t know what it’s called on Samsungs, but it will probably put MagSafe. It’s really cool, because that’s exactly what Apple did first, then Pixel, and now Samsung is doing it, and you have to do it.(Realme C71 phone review)

You know what the point is? If they want to put those magnets in the phone, the stylus either has to be shorter and smaller, or it has to be removed! Can you call an S26 Ultra that doesn’t have a stylus an S26 Ultra? Last year, the stylus on the S25 Ultra was removed, which was a bit annoying (i.e., the stylus became lighter, became plastic and broke, and removed Bluetooth), but this year there’s a chance it’ll be removed, there’s a chance it’ll be smaller and thinner, and there’s a chance that the stylus that you tapped on the bottom of it will no longer be there. That is, because of magnetic wireless charging, the stylus will probably be sacrificed. Now, it’s not exactly clear whether it will be sacrificed completely or sacrificed less.

Review of Samsung S26 Ultra Camera Rumors

Let’s move on to the camera section; Where many say that Samsung will not use its own processor and sensor in the S26 series, it wants to use a Sony sensor. To which a number of Samsung fans were like: Never mind, can it be? But in general, there are no very strange upgrades to the camera in the rumors; that is, the same 200 megapixels that were on the S24, a 50 telephoto, a 10 telephoto, a 12 ultra-wide, a 200 main one whose stabilizer will probably be a little better. But there are not many rumors about its quality and these events, that is, it has not been talked about. The point is that that Sony sensor is going to be replaced.

Review of the S26 Ultra phone hardware rumors

There are also a few rumors in the processor section. First, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 5th generation For Galaxy will probably be on these phones. The cooling system that Samsung wants to put in this year is a bit different and better. Because of the same cooling system, it is tempted to use the Exynos 2600 in it. That means we have a flagship again that is Snapdragon-like in some areas, and Exynos in others.

Now that the Exynos has stable performance, it can have something to say against Snapdragon, and many people who are Samsung fans are saying: Stop bothering us! It doesn’t want it anymore! Let go of that Exynos, stick to that other Snapdragon. But this game is also there in its processor section; there is a possibility that there will be two versions. After a generation or two, Samsung is going back to using that Exynos again. I think it would be better not to do this.
What do you think?
There is nothing else to say about these S26s. I tried to tell you the general rumors about them. How do you see the S26 series? Given these rumors: orange color, thin, large punch hole, wireless charging, display with privacy screen, tell me about it in the comments. Thank you for coming this far with us.