Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra could get a massive camera upgrade

Vlad, 11 July 2025

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra is supposedly coming in January, and according to a new rumor from China today, it might bring with it a massive camera upgrade.

Namely, the main sensor is said to be Sony's upcoming 1/1.1" type with 200 MP resolution, the Japanese company's first with so many pixels.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra could get a massive camera upgrade

The Galaxy S25 Ultra uses the Samsung ISOCELL HP2, which has 200 MP resolution too, but is smaller at 1/1.3". The bigger size of the Sony sensor will let in more light, which should result in much-improved shots.

The only asterisk here is that there's a chance Samsung will push the use of this Sony sensor to the Galaxy S27 Ultra in 2027. Hopefully the S26 Ultra will see it, but it doesn't seem to be a given according to the source of this rumor.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra

Source (in Chinese)

Reader comments

Xypleth
21 Jul 2025
iJU

I can count on all my fingers how many times I've actually taken a 50MP or a 200MP shot, as an intentional necessity, instead of just testing it. And testing it has proven that between 12/50/200MP the color/contras/processing differences as so w...

Samsung Dier
15 Jul 2025
7tS

Oh jesus what else camera upgrade....Its already enough having... We need Massive design upgrade like from S21 ultra to S22 Ultra.

CargoJoe
15 Jul 2025
jsm

If there's one thing I know about Sony sensor, is that the probability of slower shutter speed even at that high megapixels is basically lowered. So less likely you'll get blurred photos when taking pictures. But not zero. Just lowered. It&...