{"id":864608,"date":"2026-08-20T05:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864608\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:18:13","slug":"samsung-sets-the-date-for-the-galaxy-s26-fe-unveiling-its-coming-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864608\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung sets the date for the Galaxy S26 FE unveiling &#8211; it&#8217;s coming next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung will introduce a new member of the Galaxy S26 family on Thursday next week (August 27) during its \u201cGalaxy Event August 2026\u201d, which will be livestreamed on Samsung.com and on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/samsung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube channel<\/a>. The event starts at noon 12pm UTC.<\/p>\n<p>While the company doesn\u2019t name it explicitly, this can be no other model than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_s26_fe_5g-14870.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung Galaxy S26 FE<\/a>. Unfortunately, the company doesn\u2019t offer any official details for the new FE.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen a leaked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_s26_fes_european_energy_label_leaks-news-74230.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EPREL label<\/a>\tthat revealed an A rating for energy efficiency, another A for drop resistance but a C for repairability. The battery is rated for 1,200 charge cycles and can power the phone for 50 hours on a charge (compared to 2,000 cycles and 42:37h endurance for the S25 FE). The phone is rated IP68 for dust and water resistance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787203093_825_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung sets the date for the Galaxy S26 FE unveiling - it's coming next week\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Not that this counts as official info, of course. We expect that the upgrade to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/exynos_2500_unveiled_3nm_gaa_cortexx925_bigger_gpu_and_satellite_messaging_support-news-68365.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exynos 2500<\/a> will be the biggest change this generation \u2013 this was all but confirmed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_s26_fe_a08_and_a07s_surface_on_the_google_play_console-news-74203.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Console<\/a>. For more unofficial details, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/mega_leak_reveals_new_renders_specs_and_features_of_the_galaxy_s26_fe-news-74237.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this mega leak<\/a> \u2013 it contains specs and plenty of leaked images showing the S26 FE.<\/p>\n<p>Check back with us next Thursday \u2013 we\u2019ll link the livestream and report on everything that\u2019s new with the Galaxy S26 FE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung will introduce a new member of the Galaxy S26 family on Thursday next week (August 27) during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-864608","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\/864608","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=864608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}