The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare
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The Samsung Galaxy S26 offers standard upgrades and a useful Privacy Display, but its new camera features are disappointingly problematic and concerning.
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In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bit of tech and a really useful new feature - and a lot of iterative year-over-year changes. The new camera features, on the other hand, are neither of those things. They're something worse. Something scarier.
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On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David discuss the new phones, …