{"id":633276,"date":"2026-10-01T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633276\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:14:08","slug":"samsung-raised-prices-on-the-galaxy-s26-by-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633276\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung raised prices on the Galaxy S26 by $100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage costs nearly $1,000 after Samsung raised prices in the US by $100 or more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/news\/samsung-galaxy-s26-plus-ultra-us-prices-officially-increased_id183747\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phone Arena<\/a> reports. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/892311\/samsung-galaxy-s26-plus-review-screen-battery-camera-software\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus<\/a> were already $100 more expensive than their S25 predecessors when they launched earlier this year, which Samsung said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/839353\/pc-ram-shortage-pricing-spike-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAM price hikes<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/885566\/samsung-ram-galaxy-s26-price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partly to blame<\/a> for. With both price hikes combined, the base S26 will now set you back $200 more than the base S25 would have. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/992551\/apple-iphone-17-17e-air-price-increase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/978013\/google-pixel-11-series-hands-on-hardware-software\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> have also raised prices on their phones this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Nearly every phone in the S26 lineup is $100 pricier on <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=nOD\/rLJHOac&amp;mid=47773&amp;murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.samsung.com%2Fus%2Fsmartphones%2Fgalaxy-s26%2Fbuy%2Fgalaxy-s26-256gb-unlocked-sku-sm-s942uzsexaa%2F\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung\u2019s official website<\/a> now, and the 1TB version of the S26 Ultra went up by even more with a $200 price hike:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The S26 FE is the only S26 phone that appears unscathed by this price hike. It still starts at $699, although that price is also higher than the S25 FE\u2019s, despite being, as The Verge\u2019s Dominic Preston put it, essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/985187\/samsung-galaxy-s26-fe-hands-on-preview-specs-features-design\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cthe same phone as last year\u2019s.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage costs nearly $1,000 after Samsung raised prices in the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[330,85,46,321,43,9015,1523,920,125],"class_list":["post-633276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-gadgets","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-phones","tag-samsung","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}