I do not belief the Galaxy S27 Professional rumors, and neither must you

Rumors surrounding subsequent yr’s Galaxy S27 sequence have already begun, and the one which instantly caught my eye is the Galaxy S27 Professional — a telephone that will have lots of the Extremely mannequin’s specs in a smaller measurement.

I’d love for the Galaxy S27 Professional to exist, however based mostly on earlier expertise, I’m not going to get my hopes up. Right here’s why you shouldn’t both.

If I need a smaller Samsung telephone with the cameras and different options from the Extremely mannequin, why am I not enthusiastic about these rumors? As a result of I made the error of getting my hopes up final yr when the identical rumors of an S26 Professional started to flow into.

Was the Galaxy S26 Professional what I needed? I wouldn’t know. It doesn’t exist. Regardless of all of the leaked specs and particulars, the telephone by no means occurred, and by October final yr, we knew the dream was lifeless.

Within the UK, we’ve got an expression: As soon as bitten, twice shy. The Galaxy S27 Professional rumors may promise my dream telephone all the way down to the final element, however till I even have the telephone in my hand, I refuse to get excited for it. Samsung has disillusioned me earlier than, and the bottom mannequin Galaxy S26 we bought as a substitute of the Professional, whereas not a foul telephone, is so removed from what I needed.

I used to be so disillusioned that the S26 Professional wouldn’t exist that I made a decision to cease ready for Samsung to make the telephone I needed, and purchased a Pixel 10 Professional as a substitute.

Placing my skepticism apart for a second, what would I would like the Galaxy S27 Professional to be if it did exist? The cameras and the scale are the 2 areas I’d need Samsung to give attention to. As a lot as I really like the S Pen on the Extremely, I’m practical sufficient to acknowledge that it wouldn’t slot in a smaller telephone. As an alternative, I would like Samsung to convey as a lot of the Extremely’s digital camera {hardware} right into a smaller telephone as potential, as Google has with the Pixel 10 Professional or Apple with the iPhone 17 Professional.

In Samsung’s case, I wouldn’t count on the digital camera {hardware} to be an identical. The S26 Extremely has 4 rear cameras, and I think about there would solely be room for 3. Given the truth that the 3X telephoto sensor on the S26 Extremely is garbage anyway, that will be no nice loss. The S27 Professional would wish to have the identical main and ultrawide cameras because the Extremely, and ideally the identical 5X telephoto as nicely. The leaks are already suggesting that the telephoto digital camera will differ from that of the Extremely telephone. As long as it isn’t that horrible 3X sensor we have already got, I don’t thoughts that. Totally different is okay, supplied no matter zoom digital camera it has can dwell as much as the expectations that come from calling a telephone “professional.”

I’m additionally involved about what chipset Samsung may use. I do know Exynos chips are higher than they was once, however they’re nonetheless removed from aggressive with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, and a real Professional telephone would wish to match the Extremely.

That {hardware} would wish to exist in a telephone that’s sufficiently small to make it interesting to individuals who discover the Extremely fashions too giant. In my case, I discover the Pixel 10 Professional is the proper measurement. It’s sufficiently big to accommodate wonderful digital camera {hardware} and a superb battery, whereas nonetheless comfy to make use of with one hand. If Samsung made the S27 Professional the identical measurement because the S26 Plus, that will be too huge. It must be nearer in measurement to the bottom Galaxy S26, and if Samsung pulled that off, I’d take into account going again to a Samsung telephone.

However till the Galaxy S27 Professional exists and I can place an order, I’m not going to place any religion in it taking place — and I’d advise you to do the identical.