There utilized to be numerous business making flagship Android phones, however a mix of elements has actually narrowed the field with time. Today, Samsung is the undeniable king of the Android gadget community with its Galaxy S line. We can securely presume today’s Unpacked has actually exposed the most popular Android phones for the next year– the Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26.

Samsung didn’t swing for the fences this time around, producing phones with a couple of cosmetic tweaks and updated internals. Samsung is investing even more in AI, stating the S26 series consists of the very first “Agentic AI phones.” Regardless of minimal hardware upgrades, the truths of part rates in the age of AI indicate the rates of the 2 less expensive designs have actually increased by $100 this year. The Ultra stays at a currently eye-watering $1,300.

Faster and more personal

Taking a look at the Galaxy S26 household, you ‘d be hard-pressed to inform them apart from in 2015’s phones. The cam surround is various, and the measurements of the tiniest and biggest phone are ever so somewhat various. You most likely will not have the ability to inform simply by looking, however the S26 Ultra has actually fallen back from titanium to aluminum, a reversion Apple likewise made with its newest high-end phones. This phone likewise maintains its S Pen stylus.

These phones will once again have the most recent Snapdragon flagship processor (in North America, Japan, and China) with personalizations special to Samsung. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy is a 3 nm chip with third-gen Oryon CPU cores, an Adreno 840 GPU, and an effective Hexagon NPU for on-device AI processing. Samsung assures double-digit efficiency gains throughout the board, which is what we hear every year.

Samsung flagship phones have incredibly quick hardware, so they benchmark well. They likewise tend to warm up and throttle rapidly throughout continual usage. Maybe that will not be as much of an issue with the S26 series. Samsung states it has actually executed its biggest vapor chamber ever to much better control temperature levels.