{"id":49122,"date":"2025-07-08T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49122\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:24:11","slug":"samsungs-slimmer-galaxy-s26-ultra-could-sport-a-new-12mp-telephoto-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49122\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s slimmer Galaxy S26 Ultra could sport a new 12MP telephoto lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/samsung-galaxy-s25-ultra-13.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With Samsung\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/07\/07\/galaxy-z-fold-7-flip-7-reportedly-launching-with-android-16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest round of foldables all but launched<\/a>, it\u2019s time to start turning our attention to Samsung\u2019s next flagship launch. So far, early leaks have the Galaxy S26 Ultra shaping up to be something a little more impressive than its predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>Leaker <a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/5673255066\/PzEo0uobY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Universe<\/a> posted new details regarding Samsung\u2019s next S Pen-adorned flagship, just days after sharing information regarding its battery capacity. Once again, Ice Universe <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/07\/03\/galaxy-s26-ultra-battery-rumors-suggest-a-familiar-capacity-faster-charging-speeds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doubles down<\/a> on another generation of 5,000mAh batteries, even as we\u2019ve seen brands like OnePlus and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/07\/08\/nothing-phone-3-impressions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing<\/a> turn to silicon-carbon technology. Silicon-carbon cells aren\u2019t perfect, but they do allow for larger capacities in slimmer packages \u2014 something <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/05\/15\/samsung-new-battery-tech-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung seems disinterested in<\/a> exploring nearly a decade after the Note 7 debacle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"979\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-100225.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-679871\"  \/>Auto-translated post.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there\u2019s plenty of good news here for Samsung fans. The Galaxy S26 Ultra is keeping the 200MP main sensor around (though it\u2019s unclear if this is an identical sensor) alongside its 5x 50MP periscope telephoto lens. That said, Ice Universe is \u201c90 percent\u201d sure that the base 3x telephoto sensor is moving to 12MP. Megapixel count doesn\u2019t give you a whole lot of insight into what a camera system might operate like, but it should deliver an improvement over the 10MP sensor on the Galaxy S25 Ultra \u2014 in resolution, if nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Despite sticking with a 5,000mAh battery, Ice Universe says the Galaxy S26 Ultra will sport a slimmer design than its predecessor. The Galaxy S25 Ultra feels pretty bulky in the hand, even before holding it next to the Galaxy S25 Edge. Anything Samsung can do to improve this \u2014 like, say, utilizing the techniques it learned in developing the Galaxy Z Fold 7 \u2014 would go a long way. Finally, similarly to the telephoto changes, Ice Universe remains all but sure this phone will have faster charging.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy S26 series remains pretty far out from launch; assuming a normal release schedule, it should launch in January of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howl.link\/3m8fy0j7kl0ur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reservations open now for the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7<\/a>, with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howl.link\/3m8fy0j7kl0ur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$50 credit<\/a>\u00a0when you pre-order and up to $1,150+ in savings. Reservations are free, and there\u2019s no obligation to actually buy a device if you sign up, but there\u2019s no other time you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howl.link\/3m8fy0j7kl0ur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">get that $50 credit<\/a>\u00a0(which can go towards Galaxy Watch 8), 3x reward points, and other perks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/46iGaJ1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-678829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ROBOROCK-750_150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Samsung\u2019s latest round of foldables all but launched, it\u2019s time to start turning our attention to Samsung\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-49122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114818545505412367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}