Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus Reappears In Renders With A New Camera Island

Just don’t get your hopes up astir nan orangish — that comes from nan leaker.

Just 2 months ago, accepted contented was that location would beryllium nary Galaxy S26 Plus, Samsung’s mid-sized flagship canned successful favour of a slim Edge phone. Now things person flipped, pinch nan Edge supposedly cancelled and nan Plus not only connected way to merchandise early adjacent year, but revealed successful caller renders based connected nan phone’s leaked specs.

Our first imaginable look astatine nan S26 Plus comes from leaker OnLeaks via Android Headlines, and for nan astir portion it looks acquainted enough. The biggest creation alteration is to nan camera island, though it won’t person nan full-width camera rumored for nan S26 Edge. Instead nan leak shows a mini land sitting straight beneath nan 3 lenses, akin to designs we saw successful September for nan S26 Ultra and S26 Pro — different telephone we don’t deliberation is coming immoderate more.

Samsung’s S26 line-up seems to person been successful turmoil for immoderate time. At 1 constituent leakers were successful statement that a reinvention was connected nan way, pinch nan acquainted Ultra exemplary joined by an Edge and a smaller Pro. Now normal seems to person won out, pinch nan Pro swapped for nan regular S26, and nan Edge for nan Plus, and we don’t cognize if either of nan dropped phones will ever spot nan ray of day.

Android Headlines reports that nan S26 Plus will beryllium 7.35mm thick. That’s astir arsenic heavy arsenic nan S25 Plus, and comfortably chunkier than nan 5.8mm S25 Edge, truthful this doesn’t look to beryllium nan second-gen bladed telephone pinch Plus exemplary branding. The tract separately reports that nan regular S26 will beryllium 7.24mm, a small thicker than leaks had pegged nan Pro model, suggesting Samsung really is pulling distant from nan bladed telephone inclination it itself started pinch nan first Edge this year.

There is immoderate dream for bladed fans. Dutch fansite Galaxy Club reported past month that different Edge is still nether development, codenamed “More Slim.” Perhaps that will echo nan S25 Edge successful launching a fewer months aft nan different models, aliases possibly this is nan extremity of nan roadworthy for nan Edge. We mightiness find retired much erstwhile nan S26 motorboat rolls around, apt successful early 2026.