Samsung’s Galaxy S26 series may ape the iPhone 17’s biggest design change

At least one phone in Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 range may look a little different to what we were expecting, and a lot more like Apple’s iPhone 17 series. That’s going by a photo of dummy phones shared by leaker and journalist Sonny Dickson, who has a pretty good track record for sourcing accurate Apple and Samsung phone designs. Dickson’s photo shows three phones, which we’re expecting to be the Galaxy S26, S26 Edge, and S26 Ultra — rumor has it that next year’s Plus model will be replaced by the follow-up to this year’s extra-thin S25 Edge. While both the S26 and S26 Ultra feature slight design changes to include a small camera island around the main lenses, the middle phone is far stranger, with a camera bump that goes all the way across the phone. It’s a weird design, made a little less weird for the fact that we’ve seen something like it before: in images of the upcoming iPhone 17 range (including some shared by Dickson). We’ll find out for sure if that design is real at Apple’s iPhone launch next Tuesday, but will probably have to wait until January to see the S26 line. In the meantime, Samsung today announced the S25 FE and Tab S11.