Ice Universe: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will get a downgraded 10MP 3x telephoto camera

Yesterday Apple unveiled significant reforms in telephoto and selfie cameras for the new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. How will Samsung rival reply in January when it will unveil the Galaxy S26 series and its Crown Jewel, S26 Ultra? Well … which cameras will be upgraded for all things and whatever will not happen, we did not expect to hear about it Downgrade,

Snow universeWhich are often important for Samsung’s product design in the past, report that the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s mid-range telephoto camera will feature 3x f/2.4 lens with a 10MP 1/3.94 ”sensor with 1.0 mm pixels.

For reference, this year’s Galaxy S25 Ultra uses Sony IMX754 in this role – a large 1/3.52 “sensor with 1.12µm pixels. Note that” big “is very relative here – this is one of the smallest tele camera sensors that you will find on an ultra flagship.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Setup

Note: IMX754 is actually a 12MP sensor, but optics only cover 10MP. The sensor for S26 Ultra can also be a unit of 12MP for 10MP, but in any way it will be small depending on the pixel size.

Certainly, the S25 Ultra also has a 50mp IMX854 (1/252 ”, 0.7) sensor in its 5x periscope with a focal length of 111 mm. However, Apple’s new camera is close to 48MP 1/2.55″ sensor (the same 0.7 mm pixel shape) (a single 0.7 mm pixel shape)) and a 100mm lens. Then 200MP 1/1.4 ”(0.56 andm) is Vivo X200 Pro with sensor and 85 mm lens – of course, we should look at the Vivo X300 Pro Tele Camera, which (funny enough) will be a custom image sensor from Samsung (funny) Samsung (funny) Samsung (ISCEL HPB” Thanos “.

Back Galaxy S26 Ultra – snowThere is a discussion inside Samsung what to do. Apparently, it is too late to switch to the 50MP 4X lens for S26 Ultra. With 200MP main and 4x telephoto, 3x lens with 10MP sensors will not be very useful anyway. For the possibility of using 200MP sensors in telephoto modules, snow Not optimistic, saying that Samsung will not do so due to price.

So what is with additional thick camera collision, anyway? The main camera will not be upgraded, the ultra-wide will probably not be either (S25 Ultra introduced a new 50MP sensor), 3x module downgrade and the 5X module will probably have a 50MP sensor (there were some rumors about 200MP sensors, but some specially appear specially about the new leaks.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra

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