Samsung’s 2025 was full of new foldables, an ultra-thin new form factor and the launch of Google’s XR platform. After making some announcements at CES 2026, the corporate has introduced its first Galaxy Unpacked of the yr will happen on February 25, the place it’s anticipated to introduce the Galaxy S26 lineup. Official invitations have been shared, however precise info on what gadgets are arriving then continues to be not utterly confirmed. However as normal, we all know loads about what’s anticipated at Unpacked.
Engadget might be protecting Galaxy Unpacked stay from San Francisco subsequent week, and we’ll almost certainly have hands-on protection of Samsung’s new smartphones quickly after they’re introduced. Whereas we anticipate the total particulars, this is every thing we anticipate Samsung will introduce on the first Galaxy Unpacked occasion of 2026.
When is Unpacked 2026 going down?
In line with the official invite that Samsung shared on February 10, Unpacked will occur on February 25, 2026 in San Francisco. The keynote will begin at 10AM PT (1PM ET) and be livestreamed on Samsung.com, in addition to the corporate’s newsroom and YouTube channel. The announcement on February 10 additionally stated this launch will mark “a brand new part within the period of AI as intelligence turns into actually private and adaptive.” It’s not loads to go on, since we’ve heard a model of this from varied corporations over the previous few years, however not less than we received’t be shocked once we hear extra about AI in nearly two weeks.
Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Extremely
Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely hands-on photograph (Photograph by Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
Samsung’s restrained method to updating its telephones will seemingly proceed with the Galaxy S26. Primarily based on leaked images of the brand new lineup, the corporate isn’t anticipated to radically reinvent the look of the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+ or Galaxy S26 Extremely, and as a substitute will follow an analogous design to what it used on the Galaxy S25. The telephones could have a flat entrance display screen and body, with rounded corners and cameras housed in a vertical pill-shaped plateau on the again. In contrast to Apple’s transfer from the iPhone 16 Pro to the iPhone 17 Pro, the largest distinction right here will seemingly be inside parts just like the screens, chips and digicam sensors Samsung makes use of.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is anticipated to be in all Samsung Galaxy S26 telephones, although Korean information website Yonhap News reports Samsung’s comparatively new Exynos 2600 chip might be utilized in some telephones within the lineup relying on the area, a method Samsung has deployed previously. Both approach the brand new telephones must be extra performant than the earlier technology, and within the case of the fashions with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, notably good at on-device AI processing.
One notable distinction between the Galaxy S26 and the Galaxy S25 might be the cellphone’s display screen. The brand new cellphone will reportedly characteristic a 6.3-inch FHD+ show in line with specs shared by leaker Ice Universe, which makes it ever so barely bigger than the 6.2-inch show used on the Galaxy S25. The S26 may even allegedly include 12GB of RAM, both 256GB or 512GB of storage and a barely bigger 4,300mAh battery. Samsung is not altering the cameras on the entry-level cellphone, although: leaks counsel it will characteristic the identical 50-megapixel foremost digicam, 12-megapixel ultrawide, 10-megapixel 3x telephoto and 12-megapixel selfie digicam because the earlier technology. Modifications look like much more minor on the Galaxy S26+. Apart from the brand new Snapdragon chip, the cellphone will reportedly characteristic the identical 6.7-inch FHD+ display screen, 4,900mAh battery, 12GB of RAM and the identical digicam array used on the bottom Galaxy S26.
The distinction between the Galaxy S26 Extremely and Galaxy S25 Extremely is reportedly a bit clearer. According to Android Headlines, the brand new cellphone’s cameras might be barely extra raised, and stand out due to a brand new metallic end. Samsung may swap again to utilizing an aluminum body on the Galaxy S26 Extremely, after utilizing titanium frames on each the Galaxy S24 and S25 Ultras. Most significantly, to make the cellphone truly help Qi2 relatively than only technically work with the standard when a case is connected, rumors suggest Samsung will take away the S Pen digitizer layer within the cellphone and undertake a brand new methodology for accepting stylus enter. It isn’t clear what that new methodology will truly be, however it might let the Galaxy S26 Extremely extra simply work with Qi2 equipment with out shedding its stylus.
Android Headlines additionally not too long ago shared what appear to be full image renders of the S26 sequence, they usually usually line up with what has already been rumored, leaked and reported thus far. If these photos are correct, they offer us a clearer have a look at the digicam bump and two coloration variants of the S26 Extremely.
Followers of magnets could continue to be disappointed by Samsung if the most recent rumors are correct. Regardless of the launch of the Qi 2 wi-fi charging customary including help for handy magnetic alignment years in the past, Samsung has but to deliver that characteristic to its telephones. Although the S-series have the upper pace charging charges that the spec allows, Nieuwemobiel.nl is reporting that, because of pictures it acquired of instances with magnetic rings, the S26 sequence seemingly received’t have built-in magnets. Samsung has made these instances so as to add the magnetic functionality to its S-series previously, and the existence of the photographs of those equipment lends weight to the concept the corporate will proceed this method.
Galaxy Buds 4
Galaxy Buds 3 Professional in case. (Engadget)
Samsung launched the Galaxy Buds 3 and 3 Pro in 2024, with a significant redesign that introduced them way more according to Apple’s AirPods. The Galaxy Buds 4 and Buds 4 Professional Samsung is rumored to be asserting quickly will not essentially change that, although they are going to characteristic a extra compact case and fewer angular stems, according to leaked images from the Samsung Suggestions app.
Help for head gestures to simply accept and decline calls, a characteristic Apple consists of on the AirPods Professional 3 and AirPods 4, is also rumored to work on each variations of the brand new Galaxy Buds. SamMobile reports the Galaxy Buds 4 and 4 Professional may ship with a brand new Extremely Wideband chip that can make them simpler to search out with Google’s Find Hub community.
Galaxy Z Trifold
Sure, the TriFold has a crease, two actually. However they nonetheless do not wreck the expertise. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
Samsung introduced the Galaxy Z TriFold in late 2025 with out agency particulars of when the brand new smartphone-that-folds-into-a-tablet could be accessible in North America. That data got here on January 27, when the corporate introduced the TriFold would be available in the US on January 30, for a whopping $2,900. Contemplating we’ve already seen the device in person at CES 2026 and persons are almost certainly to have had an opportunity to have a look at, if not purchase the foldable for themselves by the point Unpacked rolls round, we don’t anticipate Samsung to spend an excessive amount of time dwelling on it, if in any respect.
Galaxy S26 Edge
At simply 5.8mm thick, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is likely one of the thinnest smartphones ever made. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
When the Galaxy S25 Edge was introduced in 2025, it appeared doable that Samsung might substitute its “Plus” smartphone with a novel kind issue, identical to Apple has opted to do with the iPhone Air. There have been conflicting reports on the matter, however it looks as if Samsung is not going to be doing that with the Galaxy S26 Edge.
As an alternative, the smartphone will reportedly stay another choice, very similar to foldables are for purchasers not swayed by Samsung’s conventional smartphones. The Galaxy S26 Edge is rumored to characteristic a barely totally different design than final yr’s mannequin, according to Android Headlines, with a big rectangular digicam plateau that is harking back to Google’s Pixel telephones, and the raised oval Apple used on the iPhone Air. Past that, the cellphone can also be anticipated to be ever so barely thinner at 5.5mm than the 5.8mm Galaxy S25 Edge.
Bixby and different AI options
Samsung already acts as a primary place Google can showcase new AI options for Android, however the firm is reportedly exploring different AI partnerships, too. In June 2025, Bloomberg reported that Samsung was nearing a cope with Perplexity to combine its AI-powered search engine throughout OneUI and its homegrown cellular browser. Perplexity already has a deal with Motorola on its Razr telephones, so the one factor that may make a cope with Samsung uncommon is the shut relationship the corporate already has with Google.
The corporate additionally unintentionally introduced a new version of its Bixby AI assistant, which is able to seemingly even be built-in with Perplexity and will function an alternative choice to Google Gemini. Each a brand new Bixby and a deeper integration with Perplexity look like pure new software program options to point out off at Galaxy Unpacked.
On February 17, Samsung teased some mobile AI photography features ahead of Unpacked. These increase the S-series’ current image-editing instruments by bringing the power “to show a photograph from day to nighttime in seconds, restore lacking components of objects in pictures, seize detailed images in low mild, and seamlessly merge a number of images right into a single, cohesive outcome.” A variety of these items are already doable in different photo-editing apps and even within the Google Photographs app, however we’ll have to attend to see them in motion on the S26 telephones for extra particulars on whether or not they’re totally different or simpler.
Replace, January 27 2026, 11:55AM ET: This story has been up to date to replicate the most recent information across the Galaxy Z TriFold’s value and availability within the US.
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