Samsung is rumored to finally be upping the charging speed on the Galaxy S26 Ultra next year. According to a renowned leaker on X, by the username @chunvn8888, Samsung is reportedly going to be using 60W USB-C PD PPS charging next year.
In fact, he goes on to state that it’ll hit 55W in the first 15%, then 45W until 70%. Whereas the 45W on the Galaxy S25 Ultra barely even hits 45W for more than a few seconds. This would be a pretty major upgrade, and make it one of the fastest charging devices using USB-C.
While realme, OPPO, OnePlus, and a lot of other Chinese manufacturers technically have faster charging speeds, that’s all over USB-A and not USB-C. When you plug something like the OnePlus 13 into a USB-C charger that can do 45W, you get painfully slow charging at about 18W. That’s incredibly slow; even the Pixel 10 doesn’t charge that slow.
If Samsung sticks with the same 5,000mAh capacity battery on the Galaxy S26 Ultra (which it is rumored to do), then we could see a pretty big update year-over-year in charging speeds. In our testing of the Galaxy S25 Ultra, it took almost exactly an hour to charge from 1% to 100% using a 45W charger. Which is not bad for that speed, but with this 60W speed, we could see that get cut down to around 40 minutes.
Galaxy S26 Ultra design to remain virtually the same
We’ve already seen CADs of the Galaxy S26 Ultra design, which show that the device will look virtually identical to the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Though it will adopt the new camera layout that Samsung debuted on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 earlier this year. So it’ll have an island and then the camera bump. Making it quite a bit thicker, and more likely to rock when on a table.
Samsung is also rumored to be pushing back the launch date for the Galaxy S26 series. Apparently, there will be an Unpacked event in February, right before Mobile World Congress. That would put it a full month later than the Galaxy S25 series launch.
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