How the new Galaxy S26 phones stack up against each other on paper

Samsung has just announced its caller Galaxy S26 lineup, which includes the S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra. While they aren’t extremist departures from past year’s models, they bring a fistful of notable upgrades. All 3 tally connected Qualcomm’s Galaxy-centric Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which delivers improved capacity and powers a slew of caller AI-based features. This includes the expertise to surface chartless calls and edit photos by typing what you want changed, on pinch an update to Google Gemini that tin transportation retired definite tasks successful supported third-party apps, for illustration Uber and DoorDash, connected your behalf.

Starting astatine $899.99, the S26 is the smallest and astir affordable of the trio. It features a 6.3-inch OLED display, weighs conscionable nether 6 ounces, and has a 4,300mAh battery. Its rear cameras see a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and a 10-megapixel telephoto lens. Like its siblings, it supports a 120Hz refresh rate, starts pinch 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and includes wireless charging.

The $1,099.99 S26 Plus, meanwhile, retains the aforesaid features but adds a larger 6.7-inch show and a bigger 4,900mAh battery, which successful mentation intends it could past longer connected a azygous complaint than the S26. Still, we’d request to trial some phones to spot really they comparison successful reality, particularly fixed the larger show connected the Plus model.

Then there’s the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which starts astatine $1,299.99. It’s the largest and astir feature-rich telephone successful the lineup — and the heaviest, weighing adjacent to half a pound. Its 6.9-inch show feels person to an e-reader’s, and the 5,000mAh artillery is the largest of the 3 phones. Its camera strategy is the astir advanced, arsenic well, offering a 200-megapixel main sensor, a 50-megapixel ultrawide, and 2 dedicated telephoto lenses pinch 3x and 5x optical zoom truthful you tin zoom successful farther without losing image quality. The Ultra is besides the only telephone to connection Samsung’s caller privateness show feature, which makes it harder for group sitting adjacent to you to spot what’s connected your screen, if you don’t want them to. It’s besides the only exemplary pinch S Pen support for taking notes.

That’s conscionable a glimpse of the main differences betwixt the 3 models, though. If you want a much elaborate look astatine the hardware defining each phone, the array beneath breaks down the specs. We’ve besides published our hands-on impressions of the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra for those who want much penetration up of our afloat reviews.