Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: This again

The S26 phones consciousness awfully familiar.

While Samsung has treated its Flips and Folds to a fewer large hardware upgrades implicit caller years, the Galaxy S flagships person often felt similar a long, unbroken enactment of insignificant spec refreshes. The S26 and S26 Plus bash thing to alteration that trend.

The Galaxy S26 Ultra astatine slightest benefits from the company's new privateness display, but the 2 smaller S26 phones deficiency a slayer hardware feature. They some person caller chipsets, and the S26 gets a bigger artillery portion the Plus has faster wireless charging, but these are tiny tweaks, not wholesale upgrades. Perhaps astir disappointingly, Samsung hasn't followed Google successful adding magnetic Qi2 charging to the phon …

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