{"id":1100081,"date":"2026-07-20T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1100081\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:48:10","slug":"galaxy-watch-ultra-2-renders-reveal-huge-battery-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1100081\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 renders reveal huge battery upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\"Samsung<\/p>\n

\u24d8 Notebookcheck<\/p>\n

<\/a>Samsung Watch Ultra (2025) screen<\/p>\n

Leaked promotional renders suggest Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 will feature Qualcomm\u2019s 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite chip, dedicated on-device AI hardware, and a substantially larger 800 mAh battery. Expected to debut at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22, the smartwatch may also offer a 12% slimmer titanium case, IP69K protection, and two color options.<\/p>\n

A fresh set of leaked promotional images points to Samsung swapping out Exynos for Qualcomm’s 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite in the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, bringing a performance bump and the line’s first dedicated on-device AI silicon. The watch is tipped to launch alongside the standard Galaxy Watch 9 at Samsung’s July 22 Unpacked event.<\/p>\n

It’s a real departure from Samsung’s use of its own silicon in the Ultra. Wear Elite is built on TSMC’s 3nm process, and the standout addition looks to be the NPU: Qualcomm’s first wearable chip with dedicated onboard AI hardware, opening the door to features such as on-watch smart replies and fitness coaching that don’t require a paired phone nearby. The switch isn’t limited to the Ultra, either. As we reported separately<\/a>, the standard Galaxy Watch 9 is also moving to Wear Elite, meaning Samsung’s entire 2026 watch lineup drops Exynos in favor of Qualcomm silicon for the first time.<\/p>\n

Leaker Evan Blass posted the renders through his newsletter, and they line up with what’s been rumored for months about the Ultra’s chip switch. One slide carries a “Powered by Snapdragon Wear Elite” badge over an exploded view of the watch’s internals\u2014the first time the chip has actually been shown in promotional material rather than just named in a leaked spec sheet.<\/p>\n

\tSamsung Watch Ultra 2 with Snapdragon<\/p>\n

Battery capacity looks set to land at 800 mAh based on the renders, up from the 590 mAh cell used in both the Galaxy Watch Ultra (2024)<\/a> and Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025)<\/a>. That’s a jump of roughly 36% and the first battery increase the Ultra line has seen since it launched. Samsung has yet to publish official runtime estimates, but a capacity increase of this size should translate into a real gain in multi-day use and battery life with the always-on display enabled once the watch ships.<\/p>\n

Samsung Watch Ultra 2 battery capacity<\/p>\n

Samsung is also pitching the case as 12% slimmer than last year’s Ultra, a shift for a watch that’s typically leaned into bulk over a slim profile. Titanium construction carries over, and the water and dust resistance rating climbs to IP69K. The leaked images show two color options: an olive-green band on a titanium case and an all-black version with an orange ring circling the rotating crown, keeping the Ultra’s familiar dual-button setup.<\/p>\n

Samsung Watch Ultra 2 in 2 colorwaysIP69K rating and Titanium buildSamsung Watch Ultra 2 buttons<\/p>\n

Samsung hasn’t acknowledged the leak. We can expect the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 to be announced on July 22 at Galaxy Unpacked<\/a>, sharing the stage with the standard Watch 9.<\/p>\n

\t\"B\u00f9i<\/a>Giang B\u00f9i<\/a> – Tech Writer – 13 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2026<\/p>\n

Instead of sports, I spent my school years buried in researching about everything tech, looking into chips and specs instead of doing whatever normal kids did. I am now writing for NotebookCheck, hoping that research finally reaches more people than just me and a text file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u24d8 Notebookcheck Samsung Watch Ultra (2025) screen Leaked promotional renders suggest Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 will feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1100082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3160],"tags":[323,2061,8442,17467,300358,58491,1630,1685,6680,86527,188451,24876,53108,86526,24877,207906,14886,86528,94264,268353,14998,6080,6082,542,3317,88496,53,32504,32438,170951,13995,16,15,30878,8260],"class_list":["post-1100081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-ai","tag-android","tag-battery","tag-benchmarks","tag-chipset","tag-exynos","tag-fitness","tag-gadgets","tag-galaxy","tag-graphics-card","tag-ip69k","tag-laptop","tag-leak","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-npu","tag-performance","tag-processor","tag-qualcomm","tag-renders","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-samsung","tag-smartwatch","tag-snapdragon","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests","tag-titanium","tag-tsmc","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unpacked","tag-wearable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116950973296306206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}