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If you may have a Samsung Galaxy phone it’s about to look a little outdated. The technology giant has simply introduced its subsequent Galaxy Unpacked occasion the place we absolutely count on the disclosing of the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus and S26 Ultra.

Galaxy Unpacked is the title Samsung offers to occasions the place it launches some of its flagship Android telephones, nevertheless it hasn’t left a lot up to the creativeness in its newest announcement.

“The new Galaxy S series is coming,” Samsung stated in a press release, the place it stated the occasion will happen on Wednesday February 25, 2026, in San Francisco.

“Join us as we unveil Samsung’s newest Galaxy innovations – marking a new phase in the era of AI as intelligence becomes truly personal and adaptive.”

You can tune in to watch the occasion dwell on February 25 at 6pm UK time on Samsung’s YouTube channel.

The Galaxy S26 collection, whereas not official, is in keeping with rumours what Samsung will announce – and the actual fact Samsung has stated the launch is for “the new Galaxy S series” reveals that’s what we’re getting, even when the firm surprises us all by mixing up its numbering scheme.

This occasion may be very prone to embrace three telephones within the S26, bigger S26 Plus and the S26 Ultra with superior cameras and S Pen stylus accent. The common S26 is predicted to remain small and have three rear cameras, whereas the Plus model will offer a bigger screen and battery.

Samsung is predicted to launch the telephones operating Android 16 with One UI 8.5, a model of its cell software program at the moment in beta on the Galaxy S25 collection. More AI options are teased within the above video in addition to the press release, the place Samsung says “The Next AI Phone Makes Your Life Easier”. We’ll see.

But a huge change might be afoot for UK followers of Samsung’s newest smartphones. All three S25 telephones ran the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, a barely overclocked model of Qualcomm’s strongest obtainable processor on the time.

Although it’s anticipated that the S26 Ultra will get upgraded globally with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the most recent high-end chip, in keeping with rumours, within the UK and Europe the common S26 and S26 Plus will include Samsung’s Exynos 2600 chipset.

In the previous, Exynos-powered Samsung telephones have been criticised for being much less highly effective with worse battery life than their US and Korean counterparts which have Snapdragon chips. The S26 and S26 Plus will very seemingly run on the 8 Elite Gen 5 outdoors of Europe, for instance.

But the Exynos 2600 is alleged to make use of a 2-nanometer course of, the primary time Samsung has launched a chip with this superior technology.

Leaks point out all of the S26 telephones will include no less than 12GB RAM, with screen sizes of 6.3-, 6.7- and 6.9-inches for the S26, S26 Plus and S26 Ultra respectively.

The S26 Ultra will retain the 4 rear cameras of its predecessors however could gain a bigger aperture on all of them, together with on the 200MP important digicam.

It will be fascinating to see if Samsung retains is costs the identical because the S25 vary. The S25 prices £799, the identical because the iPhone 17 and Google Pixel 10. The S25 Ultra sells for a whopping £1,249, making it pricier than Google’s £999 Pixel 10 Pro and Apple’s £1,099 iPhone 17 Pro.