The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra could get a new variant with major missing feature

The Samsung Galaxy S26 lineup just dropped a couple of months ago, but we're already getting leaks about the Galaxy S27 lineup.

Korean news outlet ET News (via Phone Arena) reported that Samsung is considering adding a fourth model to the S27 lineup. For years, Samsung has launched three flagship Galaxy S phones every January or February: a base model, a Plus model, and an Ultra model. According to the ET News report, Samsung could add a Galaxy S27 Pro model to the mix next year, which would share a lot of the same flagship features as the Ultra, but presumably with some compromises to get the price down a bit.

As for which features will remain and which will not, the report is vague about that, possibly because we're so far out from these phones launching. The one big nugget ET News shares is that the new, lower-priced Pro would not include or support the S Pen, Samsung's trademark stylus that became a standard feature of Galaxy Ultra phones a few years ago. It could also include the Privacy Display feature that wound up being one of the main selling points of the S26 Ultra, per ET News.

While this report suggests Samsung will launch four phones in the Galaxy S line next year, it's worth noting that as recently as last year, Samsung was reportedly going to replace the S26 Plus model with a thinner Edge model, inspired by the Galaxy S25 Edge. However, poor Edge sales scuttled that plan, leaving Samsung to launch three S26 phones that were pretty similar to the year before. Samsung could theoretically try that again by replacing the S27 Plus with an S27 Ultra, but based on this report, that's not going to be the case.

Sadly, we don't yet know a lot else about the S27 lineup. A previous leak a few months ago suggested the S27 Ultra could have an upgraded main rear camera sensor, but that report was vague about what the upgrades would actually be. Upgrades to performance, battery life, and AI features would also be reasonable to expect, but we haven't heard firm details about those just yet. It might be a while before we do.