Monday, 16 November 2026

Galaxy S27 Ultra and S27 Pro tipped to share one compact camera design

Ice Universe says a sketch he posted on Weibo is the settled rear camera design for both the Galaxy S27 Ultra and the S27 Pro.

Key points

  • Ice Universe says a sketch shows the final camera layout of the S27 Ultra and S27 Pro.
  • The cluster is four circles in a compact top-left island.
  • Samsung has not shown either phone; launch is expected in early 2027.

Samsung’s next two top phones may look alike from behind. Ice Universe wrote on Weibo that the camera design of the S27 Ultra and its new Pro sibling is now confirmed and final, and posted a drawing to show it. Samsung has revealed neither phone.

In the drawing, three round lenses and a fourth round element form a diamond near one corner of the back. The biggest pair run down a slope from upper left to lower right, and a smaller lens fills the gap beside them. A small pinhole sits close to them. His post names no single phone, just the pair.

Earlier leaks drew something looser: a broad rectangular block with spare room inside it, built from CAD files and dummy phones. The new sketch squeezes the lenses together instead, and it moves away from the Galaxy S26 Ultra, where the lenses run down a pill-shaped strip.

Line sketch of a phone's rear camera island with four circles
Ice Universe’s sketch, unverified Image: Ice Universe (Weibo), unverified

The Pro is a new rung that Samsung is said to be adding above the S27+ and below the Ultra, smaller than the Ultra and without an S Pen. What sits inside each island can still differ, and no tipster has settled the Pro’s zoom camera. Previous tips gave both phones a 200-megapixel main camera, and the Ultra may lose its 3x telephoto lens, a detail that remains unsettled.

The drawing is not a photo of a prototype, and it does not match the dummy units from earlier this month. Samsung’s S27 line is expected in January or February 2027, so the real phones will settle it.

KA

Founder and editor of Tech Prolonged since 2010. A software engineer by profession, Khurram covers Google, Android and Microsoft, and edits the newsroom's coverage. Find him on X at @khurramar.