While the launch date is a fair bit later this year, leaks continue to detail Samsung’s plans for the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. In the latest leak, we’re getting a better look at the hardware and how the Galaxy S26 design is changing.
Images and a brief video posted by @OnLeaks on Twitter/X show apparent dummy units of the Galaxy S26 Ultra. The units don’t turn on, of course, but give us a pretty good idea of what to expect from the hardware.
The overall shape of the Ultra looks just about identical to last year’s Galaxy S25 Ultra with its rounded corners, but this time around the camera module is updated with a design that looks a lot like the Galaxy Z Fold 7’s camera bump. The three main lenses sit on a small raised island over the rest of the back of the device.
And, just from this first glance, it’s pretty obvious that an existing problem is about to get worse.
As many have noted in recent years, Samsung’s design choice of placing the camera bump to the far left side of the device leads to the whole device wobbling on a table. It’s not an unusual trait in smartphones, but the doubly-raised bump on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 only makes this all the more frustrating. As our friends at Droid-Life hilariously pointed out a few months ago, the Fold 7 could double as an old-school telegraph with how much the camera makes it wobble when used on a table.
Samsung’s choice to extend this to the Galaxy 26 Ultra, and the rest of the series, means we’ll probably be seeing this problem get a bit worse on the new generation. The reason for the bigger camera bump is presuambly due to the thinner chassis Samsung is supposedly building this year.
In the video below you can pretty clearly see just how far the new camera module juts out from the rest of the body.
Of course, this is largely solved with a case of the right thickness. But for those who want to go caseless, use a skin, or simply want a thin case on an already-large phone, Samsung’s design is an annoyance if you’re not actively holding the device all of the time – and you know you use it on a table from time to time. Will it be a deal-breaker? Probably not, but it’s certainly going to be an annoying little quirk.
The Galaxy S26 series is set to launch in February.
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