The first set of renders have officially arrived, kicking off the next several weeks of renders, leaks, and rumors surrounding Samsung's next flagship smartphone. The renders arrive from reliable source @OnLeaks, so we may very well be looking at Samsung's next flagship in these renders. Keep in mind the renders don't represent final hardware exactly. Even if these are based on the actual device, the final design could change

Anyway, on to the Samsung device in question. These renders represent the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and the design highly resembles what a Galaxy Note smartphone should look like. The top and bottom sides of the phone are flat, and the phone has a cylindrical shape, which reminds us of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro, the one with the waterfall display. The S22 Ultra doesn't appear to have this degree of a curve, however.


Let's shift focus to the quad-camera setup. It looks like it borrows the same camera hardware from the Galaxy S21 Ultra, down to the layout and position of the cameras. This has been dubbed the P-shapeThe front-facing camera also appears to be unchanged.

Another notable feature of this phone is the slot for stowing an S Pen. This corroborates with two recent reports (1,2) about the phone carrying its own S Pen. Interestingly enough, the Galaxy S22 Ultra was reported to have the same size 5,000 mAh battery so Samsung might have managed to figure out how to re-arrange the phone's internals while making enough room to add the S Pen.

There’s some reason to believe this could be Samsung’s design, beyond it fitting with a general trend of camera bumps becoming big and increasingly... visible on devices like the iPhone 13 Pro and the yet-to-be-released Pixel 6. OnLeaks has a fairly good track record of leaking phones, pretty closely matching the looks of both the Pixel 5 and the Pixel 6. This kind of refinement to a camera housing also doesn’t seem out of the picture, in many ways it’s a reduction of the S21 Ultra’s cameras: a corner has been removed. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t look strange, though.