Samsung has not said a word officially about the Galaxy S27 Ultra, yet its camera count, battery size and price are already being argued over. Phones from the company tend to leak heavily, and Mashable reports that Korean press says Samsung has begun producing components for the S27 line. Treat everything below as rumor.
When it might arrive
No date is set. Samsung usually launches its flagships in January or February, and last year’s S26 series came on Feb. 25, days before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Mashable expects the S27 family, the S27, S27 Plus and S27 Ultra, around February at a Galaxy Unpacked event, with sales starting soon after.
A redesigned back
Leaked CAD renders, as reported by Android Headlines, point to a major redesign. The front stays a big display with a punch-hole selfie camera. The back reportedly gets a new camera bump, one large rectangle holding the lenses. The phone is said to measure 163.76 x 78.25 x 7.97mm with a 6.9-inch screen, slightly bigger than the S26 Ultra. Counting the bump it would be 12.53mm thick.
The rumored specs, drawn from Phone Arena, GSMArena and the leaker IceUniverse, include:
- Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, and possibly Samsung’s Exynos 2700 in some markets
- Three rear cameras instead of four: a 200-megapixel main, a 50-megapixel telephoto and a 50-megapixel ultrawide, with the 3x telephoto gone
- A 16-megapixel selfie camera, up from 12
- A 5,700mAh battery with 60W wired charging
- S Pen support, in black, blue, light pink, violet and white
If true, that is a real step up: new chip, bigger battery, new sensors across the board. IceUniverse also claims a warmer color tone, better highlight control and sharper, less noisy dark areas in photos. Nothing is known yet about memory or storage, so Mashable expects the same 12 or 16GB of RAM and 256GB, 512GB or 1TB options as last year. Another rumor says Samsung will add Polar ID, a face-recognition system like Apple’s Face ID that would not need a cutout in the screen.
The price question
Here is the sore point. A memory chip shortage is still running, and phone makers, Samsung included, have been raising prices. The S26 Ultra started at $1,299, and Samsung recently lifted that to $1,399. Mashable expects the S27 Ultra to start at $1,399 as well, which matches a leak from @phonefuturist on X. That leak lists the Galaxy S27 Ultra at $1,399, the S27 Pro at $1,299, the S27+ at $1,099 and the S27 at $899.
Other outlets are quoting higher numbers for the same phones, so none of this is settled. If the @phonefuturist list is right, Samsung would in effect offset the Ultra’s price rise by launching a new S27 Pro at the Ultra’s old $1,299.
