As a Galaxy S26 Extremely person, these are my 3 greatest S27 Extremely needs

I beloved the Galaxy S26 Extremely greater than I believed I’d. The on-paper specs led me and others to imagine it might be one other incremental improve not value my curiosity, as has been the case for years now. As soon as I received one, I noticed there was so much to like and that even small modifications could make an enormous distinction.

It pains me to say it, however Galaxy S27 rumors have already began to trickle in, and shortly that will likely be a deluge. With that in thoughts, listed here are three issues I would like Samsung to alter subsequent yr.

The Galaxy S26 Extremely has good cameras … largely. The first, 5x telephoto, and the ultrawide take nice photographs in good lighting. The problems come up once you attempt to take an image of a black cat or use the 3x telephoto sensor.

You learn that proper — the Galaxy S26 Extremely, and my Z Fold 7 for that matter, doesn’t like my cat, and we merely can’t have that, can we?

At any time when I attempt to take photographs of Fatus Cattus in something lower than good lighting, the telephone is completely incapable of specializing in him and by no means switches into macro mode after I get shut, as seen above. My Pixel 10 Professional and Razr Fold don’t have this drawback, so both there’s one thing not fairly proper with Samsung’s focusing, or the S26 Extremely is intimidated by such a rotund specimen of perfection. Could possibly be both, actually.

What’s particularly irritating about that is that the macro mode button in Samsung’s digital camera app isn’t all the time there — it solely seems when it detects you’re near one thing, which it fails to do right here. I’ve to faucet the ultrawide shortcut and take the picture that method, however then the picture is distorted.

The 3x telephoto digital camera is one other ache level. It’s just about unchanged from the Galaxy S21 Extremely, which stands out in stark distinction to the opposite three sensors which have been upgraded considerably since 2021.

The S21 Extremely wanted the 3x digital camera. Its periscope telephoto was 10X, so having one thing in between that and the 1x was a good suggestion. However Samsung swapped that 10x for a 5x with the Galaxy S24 Extremely, and since then, the 3x sensor has been redundant. The 200MP important sensor takes higher photographs at 3x crop than the devoted 3x lens does, a lot in order that the S26 Extremely will usually crop the principle sensor fairly than swap lenses. If the telephone itself doesn’t trouble with the 3x lens, why ought to we?

Lastly, let’s speak design. I don’t need each telephone to look the identical, however I do need all of them to have Qi2 magnets. There’s multiple cause Samsung hasn’t constructed magnets into its telephones but, and one is the design of the cameras.

As you possibly can see within the picture above, my S26 Extremely with a Qi2 case doesn’t play nicely with many equipment. My Baseus battery financial institution catches on the nook of the 5x telephoto lens, so each picture taken with that lens finally ends up a blurry close-up of the battery financial institution. Extra importantly, the telephone doesn’t cost correctly.

A redesign of Samsung’s cameras would repair this and add some much-needed aptitude to an ageing design. A horizontal bar just like the Pixel would do the trick, or Samsung might simply do as I’ve already steered and take away the ineffective 3x sensor, shifting the 5x to the place that at the moment lives. Both method, it is a laughable expertise, and Samsung must do one thing about it.

Every little thing else in regards to the Galaxy S26 Extremely remains to be fairly nice. I do know we’d all love for Samsung to place a much bigger silicon-carbon battery within the S27 Extremely. Nevertheless, my S26 Extremely’s battery life has been so good, I wouldn’t be too disillusioned if Samsung didn’t swap to a much bigger battery. I haven’t been capable of kill this battery within the house of a day, irrespective of how a lot I throw at it, and the 60W charging tops it up greater than quick sufficient, too.

Every little thing else in regards to the telephone, regardless of its similarities to older fashions, is great. Efficiency is top-notch, One UI remains to be top-of-the-line flavors of Android, and the cameras are unbelievable, except for the shortcomings I discussed earlier. I do know all of us need telephones to be much less boring and to excite us like they used to, however that’s exhausting to attain. Upgrades was once thrilling as a result of there have been nonetheless main technological leaps to be made. That’s not true anymore, and that’s okay.

If the Galaxy S27 Extremely is pretty much as good because the S26 Extremely in these areas and addresses my points with the cameras, it’ll be as near good as ever earlier than.