Samsung · Galaxy S Ultra
Galaxy S26 Ultra
It's official
We will keep this on your list as the date moves.
This one launched before we started watching.
The real dates are above. We never made a guess for it, so there is nothing to grade — and we would rather show you nothing than invent a prediction after the fact.
Prices reported elsewhere
Currencies we have a price for but no matching launch market. As reported, in the currency they were quoted in — we never convert between currencies, because a converted figure is a number nobody actually printed.
from €100
Stated as fact, but by only one or two sources.
1 source, 1 report
$1,299
for the 256GB model — nobody has priced the entry version yet
Stated as fact, but by only one or two sources.
The article wrote a bare currency symbol, so we have assumed USD.
1 source, 1 report
What the hardware is
Every headline spec is filled in. Values from a spec database describe a phone that exists; values from articles are what sources claim about one that does not yet. Each row says which it is, and where sources contradict each other we print both figures rather than choosing.
4 specs are reported two different ways. Those rows are marked below.
display
- Peak brightness
- 2600 nits ✓
- Pixel density
- 498 ppi ✓
- Cover glass
- Gorilla Armor 2 Sources disagree also reported as Gorilla Glass Armor 2
- Refresh rate
- 120 Hz ✓
- Resolution
- 1440x3120 ✓
- Screen size
- 6.9" ✓
- Panel type
- AMOLED ✓
performance
- CPU cores
- 2 cores Sources disagree also reported as 8 cores
- GPU
- Adreno 840 (1.3GHz) Sources disagree also reported as Adreno 840
- Chipset
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 ✓
memory
- RAM
- 12 GB ✓
- microSD slot
- No ✓
- Storage
- 256 GB ✓
camera
- Front camera
- 12 MP ✓
- Main camera
- 200 MP ✓
- Optical zoom
- 3x ✓
- Rear cameras
- 4 cameras ✓
- Max video
- 8K ✓
battery
- Battery
- 5000 mAh ✓
- Wired charging
- 60 W ✓
- Wireless charging support
- Yes ✓
- Wireless charging
- 25 W ✓
body
- Height
- 163.6 mm ✓
- Ingress protection
- IP68 ✓
- Materials
- Aluminium, Glass ✓
- Thickness
- 7.9 mm ✓
- Weight
- 214 g ✓
- Width
- 78.1 mm ✓
- Colours
- Black, Blue, Gold, Purple, Silver, White ✓
connectivity
- 3.5mm jack
- No ✓
- Bluetooth
- 6.0 ✓
- NFC
- Yes ✓
- USB
- USB-C ✓
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 6E Sources disagree also reported as Wi-Fi 7
- 5G
- Yes ✓
- eSIM
- Yes ✓
software
- Operating system
- Android 16 ✓
- OS update support
- 7 years ✓
other
- Model numbers
- SM-S9480, SM-S948B, SM-S948B/DS, SM-S948E, SM-S948E/DS, SM-S948N, SM-S948U, SM-S948U1, SM-S948W ✓
Spec data from GSMArena (CC BY 4.0), Tweakers Pricewatch.
Where you will be able to buy it
Going on what this line normally does, not on anything said about this phone yet.
only South Korea reported so far.
| Country or region | When | Price | How it was put | Who says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | around 1 Oct 2026 ± 47 days | from ₩1,947,000 | Reported | 1 source
across 3 reports, they disagree quite a bit |
These are the places that have actually been mentioned in reports about this phone. A country missing from this list has not been ruled out — nobody writing about an unreleased phone lists the countries it is skipping, so we cannot tell either way.
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