Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra tipped to stay behind other flagships in terms of battery life

The Galaxy S26 series is now backed to finally switch to the up-to-date silicon carbide technology current tipped to drive even sub-flagship Android smartphone to battery capacities of 7,000mAh or more by the end of 2025 - except for Samsung's next Ultra, that is.

The leaker @PandaFlashPro now pledges to "delete my Twitter account" if the S26 Ultra makes it to 6,000mAh, let alone 7,000mAh, next year, and asserts that Samsung will settle for ~5,500mAh in its supposed next-gen top-end model instead.

Fellow "tech expert" @NIKAZMAN19 tried to interject with the prediction that the "5,500mAh S26 Ultra" is in fact an early engineering sample; nevertheless, @PandaFlashPro insists that the figure is in fact a valid rated capacity value and that the 'real' or typical capacity spec is around 5,396mAh.

In the meantime, the S25 Ultra makes do with an unchanged 5,000mAh lithium-ion battery (that has just lost to that of the iPhone 16 Pro Max in an endurance test) despite still costing $1,249 (on the 512GB storage SKU for a limited time) on Amazon.