{"id":549256,"date":"2026-03-20T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549256\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:42:13","slug":"first-galaxy-s26-discount-gives-us-the-price-we-shouldve-had-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549256\/","title":{"rendered":"First Galaxy S26 discount gives us the price we should&#8217;ve had all along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_lg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Samsung Galaxy S26 Home Screen with Finder Shortcut\"  alt=\"Samsung Galaxy S26 Home Screen with Finder Shortcut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Home-Screen-with-Finder-Shortcut.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>C. Scott Brown \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is selling the Samsung Galaxy S26 at a 5% discount.<br \/>\nThis takes the phone from $900 to $853.14.<br \/>\nAmazon is also offering a $100 voucher with the phone\u2019s purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andauth.co\/AAGooglePreferredSource\" class=\"e_nm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"e_lg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\"  alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768233971_656_google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_lg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\"  alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768233972_401_google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0G4SW96R4?tag=androidautho-20&amp;linkCode=ogi&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1\" class=\"e_1k e_f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"e_lg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Samsung Galaxy S26 Amazon discount March 2026\"  alt=\"Samsung Galaxy S26 Amazon discount March 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Amazon-discount-March-2026.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is still more expensive than the cheapest Galaxy S25 model last year. However, there\u2019s an argument to be made that this is what the Galaxy S26 should\u2019ve been sold for all along. The Galaxy S25 started at $800 for the 128GB model, but the 256GB variant started at $860. So this discounted Galaxy S26 is actually slightly cheaper than the equivalent model last year.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is also sweetening this deal by throwing in a $100 Amazon voucher. But what do you actually get by buying this phone? You know the deal by now, as Samsung continues to coast on iterative upgrades for the base and Plus models. The main upgrades this year are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-3599341\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/a> for Galaxy processor, 256GB of base storage instead of 128GB, and a 4,300mAh battery (up from 4,000mAh).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, you\u2019ve got what are fundamentally the same rear cameras as 2022\u2019s Galaxy S22, 25W wired charging speeds for the umpteenth year in a row, and a slightly larger but otherwise unchanged screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being part of our community. Read our\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-authority-comment-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-authority-comment-policy\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Comment Policy<\/a> before posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C. Scott Brown \/ Android Authority TL;DR Amazon is selling the Samsung Galaxy S26 at a 5% discount.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,1639,190,848,15488,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-549256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-deals","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-samsung","13":"tag-samsung-galaxy-s26","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549256","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=549256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}