Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher pricetag

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are "more of the aforesaid for much money," my workfellow Allison Johnson reported this week. Now, Samsung is confirming what we antecedently lone suspected: RAMageddon is partially to blame.

Samsung's Won-Joon Choi, the COO of its mobile business, tells The Verge that the representation shortage unsocial made a "significant contribution" to the price. All the expanding worldly costs factored into the Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus costing $100 much than their predecessors this year, arsenic did tariffs, but the representation was "significant," helium tells me.

The S26 does travel with treble the retention this twelvemonth astatine its higher price, with 256GB ra …

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