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Samsung S26 Ultra/S26/S26 Plus
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So in the past couple weeks, the S26 rumors have restarted.
Exnos 2600 2nm chip uses new cooper cooling solution:
Qi2 accessories and a 60W power adapter leak:
Ultra only gets a camera upgrade to the 3x:
No camera upgrades for non-Ultra phones:
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OneUI 8.5 is in beta and looks like Liquid Glass:
Exnos 2600 2nm chip uses new cooper cooling solution:
Qi2 accessories and a 60W power adapter leak:
Samsung’s major Galaxy S26 Ultra charging upgrade is hiding in plain sight
Samsung’s quiet debut of a 60W charger strongly hints that the Galaxy S26 Ultra is finally getting a long-overdue charging boost.
www.androidauthority.com
Ultra only gets a camera upgrade to the 3x:
No camera upgrades for non-Ultra phones:
Report: Samsung Galaxy S26 to reuse Galaxy S25’s cameras
Samsung’s cost-cutting measures may also lead to a delayed mass production for the S26 and S26+. Samsung has kept a consistent approach to cameras on its...
OneUI 8.5 is in beta and looks like Liquid Glass:
The One UI 8.5 beta turned my Samsung phone into an iPhone
Samsung's One UI 8.5 beta is here, and there's a problem with it: It's made my Galaxy S25 feel just like an iPhone.
www.androidauthority.com
Looks like the desk wobble is going to get worse for the Ultra:
9to5google.com
And the s-pen gets a little curvier to match the new corners:
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Galaxy S26 Ultra leak shows off new camera bump that's sure to be annoying [Gallery]
While the launch date is a fair bit later this year, leaks continue to detail Samsung’s plans for the upcoming...
9to5google.com
And the s-pen gets a little curvier to match the new corners:
Galaxy S26 Ultra S Pen design takes a major turn
Galaxy Note and recent S Ultra users will notice a major change in Samsung’s next-gen S Pen. The Galaxy S26 Ultra is coming in February, and it seems Samsung had to optimize the S Pen design for the phone’s aesthetics. Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra features more rounded corners than its...
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For the 1st time in god knows how long I will not be getting any variant of the S26 line up, My Oneplus 15 is all I need and more!
LOL same. I'm holding form on my Z Fold 7 and waiting to see what the 8 brings.
With that said, I will be paying close attention to the release because it will give some indication on what might come to the Z Fold 8. Sometimes I really do miss some of that awesome camera hardware on the Ultra, but I'm loving the fold life too much to really consider making a change back.
It’s more so on the software kind of things… because whatever Samsung show off in terms of software features for the S26 event will come to the Z Fold 8. From a hardware standpoint… we know that UFS 4.1 will be added and maybe 45 watt charging since it will come with a bigger battery.
What really would be interesting if Samsung added bluetooth functionality back to the S-Pen on the S26U… supposedly there was some technical reason for the removal, but the marketing spin were nobody hardly used it. If that makes a return then I’m confident some S-Pen support will come for the Z Fold 8.
I can only but tryIs it us or yourself you are trying to kid?
The display they demoed at CES did not have a digitizer layer. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but it is not something they are currently showcasing.
"There are apparently no other alterations to the layers that make up the display"
Back when the rumors were swirling about S-Pen support for the Fold 7… there were discussion about a much beefier S-Pen, that contained a battery and technology that will allow stylus support without the digitizer layer.
Leaker by the name of PandaFlashPro had someone on the inside that provided this information… but supposedly Samsung had issues with the on-board software for the Fold 7, there were chatter about uncertainty if the S-Pen would be supported. However, PandaFlashPro stated that the issue was resolved and it will be supported after all… but based on the fact that there is no S-Pen for the Fold 7 it was not sorted out.
So, my hope is come time the Fold 8 arrives… Samsung has figured out the whole stylus support without a digitizer layer (similar to how iPad does it without their Apple Pencil).
Samsung are badly lagging behind many Chinese manufacturers hardware wise in my view. And the fact that a friend of mine recently got an S22 and has the exact same camera hardware as the S26 shows that Samsung are now even lazier, cheap whatever you want to call it than even Apple for upgrading their hardware.
Except the S26 ultra main camera will now operate at f/1.4 instead of f/1.8 & the 5x will have f/2.9 instead of f/3.4. Much faster optics, well 1/2 stop faster.
Still very minor. Sensor size still unchanged from all accounts. They seem to be changing the processing but that's all software related.
I'm sure it will be similar but 18 pros are said to have a bigger jump but will see.
According to this video it seems Samsung feels it’s more important to keep the price the same than compete on hardware changes.
Yeah the video i posted earlier in the week shows some great camera improvements. The leakers all said the camera blur of the past is gone because the post processing algorithm will be done after the image is taken and on the device.
The CPU and GPU benchmarked higher than the the top smartphones as well. But that doesn't always tell the whole story as we all know.