Every Samsung Galaxy Unpacked announcement, including S26 phones
Mashable
February 25, 2026
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Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event showcased its new S26 lineup, highlighting a strong focus on AI and privacy features. The highlight of the event was the Galaxy S26 series—featuring the standard S26, S26+, and the top-tier S26 Ultra—which Samsung calls its most intuitive and adaptive AI-powered phones yet. All models run Android 16 with One UI 8.5 and are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip for North America, China, and Japan. The S26 Ultra offers significant performance improvements, including a 19% CPU boost, 39% NPU boost, and 24% GPU improvement over previous models.
At the heart of the S26 series is Samsung’s Agentic AI, which integrates multiple AI agents like Bixby, Google Gemini, and Perplexity. This feature allows users to perform tasks with a button press or voice command, such as ordering pizza through GrubHub or automatically surfacing trip photos when prompted by friends. The AI also includes Circle to Search, enabling multi-object recognition in images. These features aim to reduce unnecessary app-hopping, allowing users to focus on more important activities.
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Originally published on Mashable on 2/25/2026