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TL;DR Samsung’s Galaxy S27 Ultra has recently had its layout detailed through some CAD leaks.
Those files are now being used to render some high-quality images of how the phone could look.
The S27 Ultra seems to be embracing a whole new camera system.
Is Samsung actually trying something new in the design department for next year’s Galaxy S27 Ultra? While many of the company’s recent year-to-year refreshes have felt relatively minor, leaks have suggested that Samsung could be thinking about trying out a bold new look for the S27 series, with renders this week depicting the S27 Ultra showing off an unusual new camera design. Now we’re getting an even better look at this layout, thanks to the publication of some new CAD-based renders.
Ahead of actual imagery of a new phone surfacing, sometimes we get our first look by way of pictures generated from detailed measurements of the hardware — the kind of info a case maker might use to develop their products ahead of a phone’s launch. When those leak, they can be used to create the sort of flat, basic 3D renderings we saw in yesterday’s S27 Ultra leaks. But now Android Headlines has teamed up with leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer to dress things up nicely with proper colors, components, and markings, and bring us some renders that look a whole lot closer to a final, commercial product:
These aren’t official by any stretch, and even the measurements themselves may be slightly off, but based on these the S27 Ultra is shaping up to come in at 163.76 x 78.25 x 7.97mm. While ever-so-slightly larger than this year’s Ultra, that’s still close enough that the same cases probably would fit — that is, if so much else weren’t changing.
Easily the largest departure concerns what’s going on in the camera department, with this large new lopsided camera island:
At least, while that’s a big change from the largely vertical stack we had on the S26 Ultra, it’s easy to see how Samsung might be finding a little inspiration from Apple or HONOR hardware.
That new camera island will reportedly measure 12.53 mm thick, and based on what we’re seeing here, Samsung could finally be simplifying things for the Ultra by dropping one camera — expected to be the 3x telephoto, in favor of the Ultra’s periscope zoom.
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