Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra is $200 off for the first time

Privacy Display ensures that onlookers can’t spot what’s connected the screen. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

My workfellow Allison Johnson loved the Privacy Display successful her reappraisal of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. The show feature, which blocks onlookers from getting a peep astatine what’s connected the surface erstwhile viewed from the side, is worthy getting the S26 Ultra for if you are superior astir privateness during your commute oregon elsewhere. And thankfully, it’s not arsenic costly to bargain the lone instrumentality successful Samsung’s latest smartphone lineup that has the unsocial mode. The outgo of an unlocked S26 Ultra with 256GB of storage has dropped to $1,099.99 astatine Amazon, Samsung, and Best Buy, which is $200 disconnected its archetypal terms — and present conscionable $100 much than the S26 Plus that has less features.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

Where to Buy:

• $1299.99 $1099.99 astatine Samsung (256GB)
• $1299.99 $1099.99 astatine Amazon (256GB)
• $1299.99 $1099.99 astatine Best Buy (256GB)

In summation to Privacy Display, the S26 Ultra is Samsung’s biggest, astir susceptible telephone yet. It has a 6.9-inch 3120 x 1440 OLED surface that tin spell up to a 120Hz refresh rate, and its dual telephoto lenses connection assorted optical zoom levels to assistance you find the close harvest without integer sound being added. Also of note, this is Samsung’s lone S26 telephone that supports (and includes) an S Pen stylus.

It’s a flagship Android 16 telephone that isn’t missing galore features, unless magnet-based recharging matters to you. Unlike Google’s latest Pixel 10 phones, Samsung is inactive skipping connected magnets adjacent though they’ve go a fashionable mode to recharge. Despite lacking magnets, the S26 Ultra is nary slouch erstwhile it comes to boasting the latest wireless charging standard, with Qi2 speeds peaking astatine 25W with the close charger, which is faster than different phones successful the series. You tin ever get a magnet-equipped lawsuit for the phone, and you won’t miss retired connected much.

If you aren’t swayed by the Privacy Display, the different S26 models got cheaper, too. The smaller S26 debuted astatine $899.99, and is present $799.99 for the 256GB exemplary astatine Amazon and Best Buy. The S26 Plus, which offers a bigger, higher solution surface and a bigger artillery (plus somewhat faster wireless charging astatine 20W versus 15W successful the S26), is $999.99 astatine Amazon and Best Buy, down from its archetypal terms of $1,099.99 wherever the S26 Ultra presently sits.