Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus reappears in renders with a new camera island

Just don’t get your hopes up astir the orangish — that comes from the leaker.

Just 2 months ago, accepted contented was that determination would beryllium nary Galaxy S26 Plus, Samsung’s mid-sized flagship canned successful favour of a slim Edge phone. Now things person flipped, with the Edge supposedly cancelled and the Plus not lone connected way to merchandise aboriginal adjacent year, but revealed successful caller renders based connected the phone’s leaked specs.

Our archetypal imaginable look astatine the S26 Plus comes from leaker OnLeaks via Android Headlines, and for the astir portion it looks acquainted enough. The biggest plan alteration is to the camera island, though it won’t person the full-width camera rumored for the S26 Edge. Instead the leak shows a tiny land sitting straight beneath the 3 lenses, akin to designs we saw successful September for the S26 Ultra and S26 Pro — different telephone we don’t deliberation is coming immoderate more.

Samsung’s S26 line-up seems to person been successful turmoil for immoderate time. At 1 constituent leakers were successful statement that a reinvention was connected the way, with the acquainted Ultra exemplary joined by an Edge and a smaller Pro. Now normal seems to person won out, with the Pro swapped for the regular S26, and the Edge for the Plus, and we don’t cognize if either of the dropped phones volition ever spot the airy of day.

Android Headlines reports that the S26 Plus volition beryllium 7.35mm thick. That’s astir arsenic heavy arsenic the S25 Plus, and comfortably chunkier than the 5.8mm S25 Edge, truthful this doesn’t look to beryllium the second-gen bladed telephone with Plus exemplary branding. The tract separately reports that the regular S26 volition beryllium 7.24mm, a small thicker than leaks had pegged the Pro model, suggesting Samsung truly is pulling distant from the bladed telephone inclination it itself started with the archetypal Edge this year.

There is immoderate anticipation for bladed fans. Dutch fansite Galaxy Club reported past month that different Edge is inactive nether development, codenamed “More Slim.” Perhaps that volition echo the S25 Edge successful launching a fewer months aft the different models, oregon possibly this is the extremity of the roadworthy for the Edge. We mightiness find retired much erstwhile the S26 motorboat rolls around, apt successful aboriginal 2026.