A photo of three dummy phones, said to be next year’s top Samsung models, has set off a dispute over how many rear cameras the Galaxy S27 Ultra really has. Sonny Dickson posted the picture on X on 10 November, and Ice Universe, another well-known tipster, answered within hours that it is wrong.
Dickson says the shells show the Ultra, Pro and Plus. Dummy units are non-working replicas that case makers receive so their products fit, and their accuracy varies. In his photo the two larger phones carry a wide rectangular camera block with four openings, while the smallest has a narrow vertical strip of three lenses that looks like the S26 design.
The two big ones differ mainly in size. That suits earlier talk of the Pro as a new step between the Plus and the Ultra, and a tipster’s claim today that the Pro and Ultra get 200MP main cameras.
Ice Universe wrote that the upper-right camera shown on the Pro and Ultra “does not exist”. He made a similar point in August, saying the Ultra would have three rear cameras, and a leak earlier this month of the Ultra’s camera cutouts looked consistent with that. Another report today says the Ultra would carry one telephoto lens, which would drop the current 3x camera.
The regular S27 is not in the photo. The same camera report that gave the Ultra a single telephoto lens also suggests the base S27 and the Plus keep older camera hardware, possibly to hold costs down. Dickson’s post calls the image a first look at the lineup, and Ice Universe, quoting it, said “this picture is wrong”.
Treat the picture as unreliable for now, and the layout as undecided until a second source backs it. It could be a case maker’s guess or an early prototype, and Samsung has announced no names, specs or dates for the range.
