Everything You Need to Know About Samsung’s New Phones & Earbuds in the UK

Once again, Samsung took to the signifier for Samsung Galaxy Unpacked to contiguous their latest flagship products. Both our eyes and ears are being treated to immoderate awesome upgrades, and we’ve gathered them each present for you.

Releasing connected the 11th March, they’re disposable for pre-order now, and you tin find retired each the cardinal things you request to cognize below.

The Samsung S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra: Three steps guardant for the Galaxy Series

Of course, the bulk of the presumption focused connected the authoritative announcement of the S26 bid of devices.

Screen-wise, the S26 offers a 6.3” FHD+ display, portion the S26+ and S26 Ultra agelong to 6.7” and 6.9” respectively, some with QHD+. Each exemplary has a 120Hz refresh and highest brightness of 2600 nits. In presumption of storage, 256 and 512 GB models are disposable , with the Ultra besides offering a monolithic 1 TB enactment for those for whom retention is an indispensable component.

Meanwhile, representation comes successful astatine a respectable 12 GB, with that 1 TB Ultra getting an other 4 GB supra that. Batteries timepiece successful astatine 4300, 4900 and 5000 mAh, the past of which Samsung states volition connection up to 31 hours of video playback. And it’s not conscionable a lawsuit of lasting longer: with the Ultra’s 60W “Super Fast Charging 3.0”, wired charging up to 75% volition beryllium imaginable successful astir 30 minutes.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy S26+ and Galaxy S26

As you’d expect astatine the apical end, stats are up crossed the committee connected the Ultra, with the NPU 39% much powerful, aiding the progressively integral Galaxy AI functionality, whilst the CPU is 19% faster and the GPU improved by 24%, each powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy. There’s besides improvements to thermal management, with their largest ever vapour enclosure (now successful its 6th iteration) managing vigor much efficiently than ever, with the expected improvements to performance.

And of course, erstwhile again, Galaxy AI* continues to beryllium emphasised crossed the full Samsung ecosystem, with the keyword this twelvemonth being “agentic” - AI which tin expect your needs earlier you adjacent cognize what they are. The presumption did connection a utile instauration to their “Now Brief” diagnostic though, personalising an overview of your day, with the adjuvant quality to adjacent retrieve things successful your notifications you whitethorn person forgotten to diarise, arsenic good arsenic an all-new AI helper, Bixby.

The World’s First Privacy Display connected Mobile

A immense magnitude was besides made during the presumption of the Ultra’s cutting borderline caller Privacy Display. Whilst its modular pixels dispersed airy much wide than ever before, offering wide visibility, its “Black Matrix” constrictive pixels let airy to scope lone the user, massively narrowing visibility angles, truthful nary much enarthrosis surfing from your neighbours connected nationalist transport.

You tin customise the Privacy Display mounting for circumstantial apps but, astir impressively, adjacent conscionable for definite elements of the screen, specified arsenic notifications, truthful nary much embarrassing DM pop-up oversharing portion your person successful the adjacent spot is watching YouTube with you!

Cameras: Let There Be (More) Light

Samsung person understandably built a beardown estimation for photography connected their devices, and truthful the inclination continues here. The S26 and S26 Plus connection 12 MP for the selfie camera, with 10 MP for the telephoto lens (3 x Optical Zoom), 12 MP for the ultra wide, and 50 MP for the wide-angle (2x Optical Quality Zoom). Whilst that’s much than capable for galore people, the Ultra is wherever Samsung person truly invested ⁠– not lone with higher MP (50 for the telephoto and ultra-wide, 200 for the wide-angle) but crucially successful wider apertures allowing importantly much airy to the sensors, offering sharper item and clearer much vibrant images arsenic a effect (F1.4 for the wide-angle, F2.9 for the telephoto).

Nightography erstwhile again is fixed a large woody of attention, including an accent connected video successful acheronian conditions having acold little atom than antecedently and the Ultra introducing the APV codec which supports precocious spot rates and adjacent lossless prime for 8k precocious solution video. The caller “Super Steady with Horizontal Lock” diagnostic besides peculiarly impressed ⁠– automatically maintaining a level horizon, removing the request to perpetually guarantee you’re keeping a consecutive manus arsenic you shoot.

Galaxy Buds4 Series

The different merchandise revealed astatine the San Francisco lawsuit was the latest iteration of Samsung’s earbuds, the 4 Series. Both the modular and Pro versions connection 24-bit 96 kHz audio and some adaptive EQ and ANC, offering refined Hi-Fi dependable and raising the barroom connected the dependable prime a premium earbud tin deliver. As for the inner-ear shaping, the modular exemplary offers an ‘open type’ whilst the Pro opts for the much premium ‘canal’ shaping.

It’s the dual amplifier architecture that separates the pro enactment successful particular, with each amplifier independently powering the tweeter and woofer, with the vibration country expanded astir 20% to assistance with some deeper, debased frequencies, and refined, elaborate apical end. There’s besides a customisable equaliser, allowing you to set bass, treble and code to your situation and preferences.

Samsung Galaxy Buds4 and Galaxy Buds4 Pro Specs

A bully interaction is the instant pairing, removing the request to messiness astir with apps oregon downloads erstwhile you archetypal get connected and, should you suffer a bud, it’s easier than ever to find them with SmartThings. The committedness to AI integration is besides evident successful your quality to present aftermath your adjunct simply by talking erstwhile you’re wearing them, wholly hands free.

Pricing, Pre-ordering, and Palette

Price-wise, the Base S26 begins astatine £879, the Plus astatine £1099 and the Ultra astatine £1279. For the Buds, you’re looking astatine £159 oregon £219 depending connected whether you opt for the Pro version. Pre-orders are unfastened present successful beforehand of the 11th March release, and there’s presently £170 worthy of savings to beryllium had connected the handsets if you pre-order astatine samsung.com, wherever you tin besides snag immoderate exclusive colour variants (Silver Shadow for the handset, Pink Gold for some the handset and Pro Buds). In summation to the antecedently mentioned offer, if you pre-order the Galaxy S26 Ultra, Samsung volition treble up the storage, truthful you tin get 512 GB for the terms of 256 GB.**

*Galaxy AI lone works with a web connection

**Operates arsenic a terms discount: bargain the larger retention variant (Galaxy S26 Ultra 512GB) by 10.03.2026 and wage the aboriginal terms of the smaller retention variant (Galaxy S26 Ultra 256GB)