IceUniverse: Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra to use the same 10MP ISOCELL 3x camera

Ivan, 10 November 2025

Samsung's Galaxy S26 series won't bring an exciting camera upgrades, by most accounts. The latest report comes from reliable tipster Ice universe and claims all three Galaxy S26 phones (S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra) will use a 10MP IOCELL sensor for their 3x needs.

To be more specific, it's the 10MP 1/3.94-inch ISOCELL with a 1.0μm pixel pitch, and a 36°, f/2.4 lens. That perfectly describes the 67mm f/2.4 camera inside the Galaxy S25 and S25+ and is a relatively mediocre imager. You don't get niceties like pixel binning and improved digital zoom performance.

This paints a very subdued upgrade over the Galaxy S25 series, which themselves were a bit of a snooze fest on the camera side - the Ultra model got a higher-res but not larger 50MP sensor for the ultrawide, while the vanilla and Plus models got unchanged camera systems.

Rumor has it, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S26 series on February 25. We'll find out then.


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  • AnonF-1006353
  • 12 Nov 2025
  • 005

Samsungs telephotos at night are already worse than apple since at least 2023. At this point, even the fruit company is doing more hardware evolution, while already having better software optimizations for telephotos at night... Samsung really has t...

  • AnonF-1006353
  • 12 Nov 2025
  • 005

A real letdown. Samsung will lose even more market share if they continue to use 5 year old garbage camera sensors in their ultra flagship models

Still the wrong decision as always. I always maintain that the 5x zoom camera should stay and the 10x zoom camera should make a come back. There's no need for 3x zoom camera when the main 200MP camera is already capable of 4x lossless zoom.

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