The Samsung Galaxy S26 smartphone sequence ought to hit retailers on March 11, in line with one European supply.
Latest weeks have seen varied sources pointing to 25 February because the later-than-usual date for Samsung’s subsequent huge flagship smartphone announcement.
That date appears extra assured than ever with the contemporary declare from French web site Dealabs that the Samsung Galaxy S26 sequence will hit retailers on 11 March.
Such a date would fall exactly two weeks later than 25 February, which – as we’ve simply mentioned – is when everybody appears to imagine Samsung might be holding its Unpacked occasion. That’s simply the type the hole that Samsung sometimes shoots for when it’s rolling out a significant new cellphone, with the odd minor variation.
Final yr’s Samsung Galaxy S25 sequence was introduced on 22 January and launched on 7 February 7 – a spot of 16 days. Earlier than that, the Samsung Galaxy S24 had a exact 14 day hole between its announcement and rollout.
Luke Baker
The web site confirms that the Samsung Galaxy S26 will certainly be introduced on 25 February, at round 7PM French time. That’s 6PM in UK time.
Final week we heard that some areas could possibly be in line for a worth hike when the Samsung Galaxy S26 drops. Over in Samsung’s house nation of South Korea, that worth bump is alleged to vary from 44,000 gained (about £22) to 88,000 gained (about £45), relying on the mannequin.
These worth hikes are reportedly all the way down to the hovering worth of RAM modules, which have doubled up to now yr, and will rise by one other 40% as 2026 rolls into its second half.
The US is predicted to be shielded from these worth hikes, being a vital (and extremely aggressive) marketplace for Samsung, however we await information of European pricing with baited breath.
Samsung Galaxy S26 benchmarks
In separate information, the Samsung Galaxy S26+ and Samsung Galaxy S26 Extremely have appeared on the favored Geekbench benchmarking instrument.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Extremely (below the mannequin quantity SM-S948) yielded a CPU single-core rating of 3466 and a multi-core rating of 11035. The Samsung Galaxy S26+ (SM-S942) achieved comparable scores of 3378 and 11097 respectively.
That’s about what we’d count on for this technology of flagship cellphone, falling according to the likes of the OnePlus 15 and the Honor Magic 8 Professional.
Each telephones seem like working on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC (backed by 12GB of RAM), which is to be anticipated provided that these are US fashions. International fashions of the Galaxy S26 and S26+ are anticipated to run on Samsung’s personal Exynos 2600 chip, which might present some barely totally different outcomes.
What’s attention-grabbing is that the Galaxy S26 Extremely doesn’t to be working at full whack. The 2 efficiency cores are listed as working at 4.19GHz, whereas earlier implementations of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 have hit 4.61GHz. The Galaxy S26+, in the meantime, is working at a better 4.74GHz. Curious.