Galaxy S26 Ultra leaks in full hands-on video: Live images, benchmark scores, and new Privacy Display revealed

Samung's first Galaxy Unpacked event of the year is just days away where the company will uveil its flagship Galaxy S26 lineup. Ahead of the launch, a user on social media has claimed to have bought the official S26 Ultra and shared some of the key features of the device.

Galaxy S26 Ultra leaked ahead of launch:

A user named Sahil Karoul on X (formerly Twitter) shared a video where he was buying the S26 Ultra at a store in Dubai for 12,000 Dirham (around ₹2,97,000). This is over double the launch price of the S25 Ultra in India, but it seems like the black market rate of the S26 Ultra is high ahead of the phone's launch.

In ensuing posts, Karoul shared live-images of the S26 Ultra along with its benchmark scores and live images with some of the other flagships like iPHone 17 Pro Max, Vivo X300 Pro and Oppo Find X9 Pro. As per the leaked image, the S26 Ultra is said to come with a score of 37,20,209 on Antutu and a GeekBench 6 score of 3,648 (single-core) and 10,898 (multi-core score). On 3DMark's Wild Life Extreme Stress Test, the phone is said to come with a best loop score of 6,849 and lowest loop score of 3,455 with a stability of 53.2%.

Karoul noted that the phone did not have any heating issue while running the benchmarks.

Samsung has been rumoured to be working on a e "Privacy Display" feature which would make physical screen protectors with that functionality redundant. The feature is said to be working on the company's Flex Magic Pixel OLED technology and allow for pixel-level control giving users the choice to hide only specific parts of their screen like priate notifications, passwords or images.
The tipster showed the new Privacy Display feature at work in one of this videos where he turned on the Privacy Display feature in setting and moved the phone to show that the display is barely visible from the sides while the screen seems legible while viewing from the front. Interestingly, there is also a new ‘Maximum privacy protection’ feature in the settings but it isn't immediately clear how the feature works.

In another video, Karoul confirmed that the S Pen on the S26 Ultra continues to lack the bluetooth functionality, similar to its predecessor.

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