Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra with new selfie camera and new AI photo features
The Samsung Galaxy S26 series will finally be unveiled next week at the “Galaxy Unpacked” event in San Francisco. Just a few days before the announcement, an insider has revealed new details about the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. There are also new teasers for Galaxy AI and the new image editing features that will be integrated into the native Galaxy camera app, and a new Exynos 2600 benchmark.
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra with new selfie camera
According to the well-known leaker Ice Universe The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will feature an improved selfie camera. While it retains the 12-megapixel front camera, which is the same as the previous Galaxy S25 Ultra, but a new sensor is used.
Rumors suggest that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will be equipped with a Sony sensor, replacing the Samsung ISOCELL 3LU used in its predecessor. Other specifications, including the 1/3.2-inch sensor size, 1.12 µm pixel size, and f/2.2 aperture, are expected to remain unchanged.
It’s worth noting that the front camera is said to offer a wider 85-degree field of view. The cutout for the selfie camera is also expected to be slightly larger than on the S25 Ultra. It remains unclear what other improvements the Sony sensor will bring to the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra.
Samsung announces new AI image editing features
Samsung is fully committed to AI-powered imaging and is integrating more creative tools into its native camera app. Users can capture, edit, and share images – all in one place, without having to switch between apps.
Samsung is advertising a new multimodal input method that is intended to simplify image editing.
Users can describe their desired changes in simple words or even draw shapes that are then converted into realistic objects.
Samsung Exynos 2600 in the Galaxy S26 delivers impressive ray tracing results
Samsung’s Exynos 2600 chipset, which powers the base model and the Galaxy S26+ According to a new test, it will drive the system and currently offers the highest ray tracing performance on the market.
The graphics processor of the Exynos 2600, the Xclipse 960, achieved a top score of 8,321 points in the Basemark In Vitro 1.0 ray tracing test, thus surpassing the Adreno 840 in the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 by about 8% and the Mali-G1-Ultra in the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 by 17%.
The Xclipse 960 utilizes AMD’s latest RDNA 4 ray tracing technology, which is also used in AMD’s current graphics cards.
So if graphics are your main focus, the Exynos 2600 seems more than capable of meeting your needs. However, recent reports suggest that the Exynos lags behind the latest Snapdragon in single-core tests.
