{"id":520353,"date":"2026-03-07T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:16:07","slug":"galaxy-s26-preorders-set-new-record-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520353\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy S26 preorders set new record in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The figure surpasses the approximately 1.3 million preorders placed for the Galaxy S25 in 2025, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the three models &#8211; the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra &#8211; the premium Ultra edition accounted for 70% of total preorders, underscoring strong demand for high-end devices. White and black were the most popular colors for the Ultra and base models, while the S26+ was most frequently ordered in black and violet.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces the industry\u2019s first built-in privacy display and is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy processor, which delivers a 39% improvement in neural processing unit performance compared with its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers who preordered the devices can activate them through local mobile carriers starting Friday. The official release is scheduled for Wednesday in South Korea, the United States, Britain, and India.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/news\/apple-unveils-iphone-17e-and-new-ipad-air-bc5815\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qazinform <\/a>reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/tag\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Apple<\/a> had introduced\u00a0the new iPhone 17e, a more affordable model in the iPhone 17 lineup. The device combines a faster processor, upgraded camera system and expanded base storage, starting at $599.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The figure surpasses the approximately 1.3 million preorders placed for the Galaxy S25 in 2025, the company said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-520353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}