Samsung’s 2025 was once stuffed with fresh foldables, an extremely-thin fresh construct element and the beginning of Google's XR platform. After making some announcements at CES 2026, the firm has announced its first Galaxy Unpacked of the 300 and sixty five days will rob save on February 25, the save it is anticipated to introduce the Galaxy S26 lineup. Legit invitations accept as true with been shared, but accurate data on what devices are arriving then is easy no longer totally confirmed. However as genuine, all of us know loads about what’s anticipated at Unpacked.
Engadget will possible be conserving Galaxy Unpacked are living from San Francisco next week, and we will most possible accept as true with fingers-on protection of Samsung's fresh smartphones soon after they're announced. Whereas we sit down up for the corpulent facts, right here is every part we seek data from Samsung will introduce on the first Galaxy Unpacked occasion of 2026.
When is Unpacked 2026 taking save?
In step with the legit invite that Samsung shared on February 10, Unpacked will happen on February 25, 2026 in San Francisco. The keynote will originate at 10AM PT (1PM ET) and be livestreamed on Samsung.com, to boot to the firm’s newsroom and YouTube channel. The announcement on February 10 furthermore said this delivery will tag “a brand fresh piece within the generation of AI as intelligence turns into in reality non-public and adaptive.” It’s no longer loads to transfer on, since we’ve heard a version of this from rather about a companies over the last few years, but on the very least we obtained’t be alarmed when we hear extra about AI in fair about two weeks.
Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra
Samsung's restrained methodology to updating its telephones will possible continue with the Galaxy S26. Based mostly on leaked photos of the fresh lineup, the firm isn't very any longer anticipated to radically reinvent the see of the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+ or Galaxy S26 Ultra, and as an different will stick with a equivalent construct to what it broken-down on the Galaxy S25. The telephones could maybe accept as true with a flat front conceal and frame, with rounded corners and cameras housed in a vertical tablet-shaped plateau on the wait on. Unlike Apple's transfer from the iPhone 16 Pro to the iPhone 17 Pro, the largest distinction right here is incessantly inner substances like the screens, chips and camera sensors Samsung makes employ of.
Qualcomm's fresh Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is predicted to be in all Samsung Galaxy S26 telephones, though Korean news role Yonhap News experiences Samsung's slightly fresh Exynos 2600 chip will possible be broken-down in some telephones within the lineup reckoning on the verbalize, a technique Samsung has deployed within the previous. Either methodology the fresh telephones must be extra performant than the previous generation, and within the case of the devices with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, notably magnificent at on-tool AI processing.
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— Ice Universe (@UniverseIce) November 29, 2025
One essential distinction between the Galaxy S26 and the Galaxy S25 might be the phone's conceal. The fresh phone will reportedly characteristic a 6.3-crawl FHD+ point to in step with specs shared by leaker Ice Universe, which makes it ever so a miniature bit better than the 6.2-crawl point to broken-down on the Galaxy S25. The S26 will furthermore allegedly strategy with 12GB of RAM, either 256GB or 512GB of storage and a rather better 4,300mAh battery. Samsung isn't very in reality changing the cameras on the entry-stage phone, though: leaks counsel it would characteristic the equivalent 50-megapixel main camera, 12-megapixel ultrawide, 10-megapixel 3x telephoto and 12-megapixel selfie camera as the previous generation. Modifications appear to be much extra minor on the Galaxy S26+. Different than the fresh Snapdragon chip, the phone will reportedly characteristic the equivalent 6.7-crawl FHD+ conceal, 4,900mAh battery, 12GB of RAM and the equivalent camera array broken-down on the corrupt Galaxy S26.
The variation between the Galaxy S26 Ultra and Galaxy S25 Ultra is reportedly a bit clearer. In step with Android Headlines, the fresh phone's cameras will possible be a miniature bit extra raised, and stand out attributable to a brand fresh metallic construct. Samsung could maybe furthermore change wait on to the usage of an aluminum frame on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, after the usage of titanium frames on each the Galaxy S24 and S25 Ultras. Most seriously, to develop the phone in reality support Qi2 in desire to most effective technically work with the identical previous when a case is hooked up, rumors counsel Samsung will remove the S Pen digitizer layer within the phone and adopt a brand fresh methodology for accepting stylus enter. Or no longer it is no longer positive what that fresh methodology will in reality be, on the other hand it will also let the Galaxy S26 Ultra extra without concerns work with Qi2 instruments without losing its stylus.
Android Headlines furthermore as of late shared what appear to be corpulent image renders of the S26 series, and to boot they assuredly line up with what has already been rumored, leaked and reported so some distance. If these photos are factual, they provide us a clearer see on the camera bump and two shade variants of the S26 Ultra.
Fans of magnets could maybe continue to be upset by Samsung if the latest rumors are factual. Despite the beginning of the Qi 2 wi-fi charging identical previous adding support for helpful magnetic alignment years ago, Samsung has but to bring that characteristic to its telephones. Though the S-series accept as true with the simpler tempo charging rates that the spec enables, Nieuwemobiel.nl is reporting that, attributable to photos it obtained of cases with magnetic rings, the S26 series possible obtained’t accept as true with constructed-in magnets. Samsung has made these cases so as to add the magnetic functionality to its S-series within the previous, and the existence of the photos of these instruments lends weight to the speculation that the firm will continue this methodology.
Galaxy Buds 4
Samsung released the Galaxy Buds 3 and 3 Pro in 2024, with a vital redesign that brought them much extra in step with Apple's AirPods. The Galaxy Buds 4 and Buds 4 Pro Samsung is rumored to be asserting soon could maybe no longer necessarily change that, though they'll characteristic a extra compact case and no more angular stems, in step with leaked photos from the Samsung Guidelines app.
Inspire for head gestures to settle for and decline calls, a characteristic Apple entails on the AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods 4, is furthermore rumored to work on each versions of the fresh Galaxy Buds. SamMobile experiences the Galaxy Buds 4 and 4 Pro could maybe furthermore ship with a brand fresh Ultra Wideband chip that will develop them more straightforward to search out with Google's Safe Hub network.
Galaxy Z Trifold
Samsung announced the Galaxy Z TriFold in slack 2025 without firm facts of when the fresh smartphone-that-folds-into-a-tablet could be on hand in North The US. That data came on January 27, when the firm announced the TriFold could be on hand within the US on January 30, for a whopping $2,900. Alive to on we’ve already seen the tool in particular person at CES 2026 and other folks are most more possible to accept as true with had an different to see at, if no longer buy the foldable for themselves by the point Unpacked rolls spherical, we don’t seek data from Samsung to exhaust too much time living on it, if at all.
Galaxy S26 Edge
When the Galaxy S25 Edge was once announced in 2025, it regarded possible that Samsung could maybe replace its “Plus” smartphone with a queer construct element, correct like Apple has opted to construct with the iPhone Air. There were conflicting experiences on the topic, on the other hand it appears to be like like Samsung could maybe no longer be doing that with the Galaxy S26 Edge.
As an different, the smartphone will reportedly stay one other possibility, much like foldables are for clients no longer swayed by Samsung's worn smartphones. The Galaxy S26 Edge is rumored to characteristic a rather different construct than final 300 and sixty five days's model, in step with Android Headlines, with a mountainous rectangular camera plateau that is harking wait on to Google's Pixel telephones, and the raised oval Apple broken-down on the iPhone Air. Previous that, the phone is furthermore anticipated to be ever so a miniature bit thinner at 5.5mm than the 5.8mm Galaxy S25 Edge.
Bixby and other AI parts
Samsung already acts as a prime save Google can sing their very bear praises fresh AI parts for Android, but the firm is reportedly exploring other AI partnerships, too. In June 2025, Bloomberg reported that Samsung was once nearing a deal with Perplexity to integrate its AI-powered search engine across OneUI and its homegrown cell browser. Perplexity already has a deal with Motorola on its Razr telephones, so the easiest element that will develop a deal with Samsung irregular is the stop relationship the firm already has with Google.
The firm furthermore unintentionally announced a brand fresh version of its Bixby AI assistant, which is ready to possible furthermore be integrated with Perplexity and could maybe lend a hand as an different to Google Gemini. Each and every a brand fresh Bixby and a deeper integration with Perplexity appear to be natural fresh utility parts to sing their very bear praises at Galaxy Unpacked.
On February 17, Samsung teased some cell AI pictures parts forward of Unpacked. These expand the S-series’ existing image-editing instruments by bringing the capacity “to expose a photograph from day to nighttime time in seconds, restore missing parts of objects in photos, grasp detailed photos in low light, and seamlessly merge just a few photos right into a single, cohesive end result.” These forms of issues are already possible in other photograph-editing apps and even within the Google Images app, but we’ll prefer to wait to look at them in action on the S26 telephones for added facts on whether or no longer they’re different or extra effective.
Update, January 27 2026, 11:55AM ET: This memoir has been updated to reproduction the latest news across the Galaxy Z TriFold’s tag and availability within the US.
Update, January 30 2026, 12:45PM ET: This memoir has been updated to incorporate the latest leaks on the possible dates for Unpacked 2026.
Update, February 02 2026, 11:30AM ET: This memoir has been updated to incorporate the latest leaks with corpulent image renders of the S26 trio of devices.
Update, February 03 2026, 11:00AM ET: This memoir has been updated to incorporate the latest leaks in regards to the possible lack of magnetic support on the S26 series.
Update, February 10 2026, 7:15PM ET: This memoir has been updated to incorporate the legit date of Galaxy Unpacked as Samsung announced it this present day. The intro was once furthermore edited to reproduction that detail.
Update, February 17 2026, 4:55PM ET: This memoir has been updated so as to add Samsung’s teaser about its upcoming cell AI pictures instruments. The intro was once furthermore edited for timeliness.
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