Samsung Galaxy S26 Review: Fun AI Tricks for a Steeper Price

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Pros

    Good cameras Clean, modern phone design Fun, even useful AI perks Cons

      $100 price hike not worth extra storage 25W wired charging is comparatively slow Nearly all upgrades are to software, not hardware

      The Samsung Galaxy S26 is a mix of fantastic innovations and idleness, with ready evidence of Samsung’s odd balance in picking which components to upgrade and which to let tread water. It’s understandable that Samsung might hold back some of its fancier improvements for the higher-tier phones, but it leaves its baseline model with some awkward shortfalls that persist year over year.

      This has kept the Galaxy S26 in a state of arrested development for years, which would be weird if it weren’t so expected. The base

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