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Rumors surrounding next year’s Galaxy S27 series have already begun, and the one that immediately caught my eye is the Galaxy S27 Pro — a phone that would have many of the Ultra model’s specs in a smaller size.
I would love for the Galaxy S27 Pro to exist, but based on previous experience, I’m not going to get my hopes up. Here’s why you shouldn’t either.
Do you want a small Pro phone from Samsung? 24 votes Yes 75 % No 25 %
We’ve been here before
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If I want a smaller Samsung phone with the cameras and other features from the Ultra model, why am I not excited about these rumors? Because I made the mistake of getting my hopes up last year when the same rumors of an S26 Pro began to circulate.
Was the Galaxy S26 Pro what I wanted? I wouldn’t know. It doesn’t exist. Despite all the leaked specs and details, the phone never happened, and by October last year, we knew the dream was dead.
In the UK, we have an expression: Once bitten, twice shy. The Galaxy S27 Pro rumors could promise my dream phone down to the very last detail, but until I actually have the phone in my hand, I refuse to get excited for it. Samsung has disappointed me before, and the base model Galaxy S26 we got instead of the Pro, while not a bad phone, is so far from what I wanted.
I was so disappointed that the S26 Pro wouldn’t exist that I decided to stop waiting for Samsung to make the phone I wanted, and bought a Pixel 10 Pro instead.
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