{"id":633442,"date":"2026-10-01T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633442\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:50:09","slug":"samsung-suddenly-jacks-up-the-prices-of-galaxy-s26-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633442\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Suddenly Jacks Up The Prices Of Galaxy S26 Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\">Most got a $100 increase while the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra jumped up by $200 to $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/intro-1790869985.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2274612\/samsung-suddenly-jacks-up-the-prices-of-galaxy-s26-phones\/\" data-post-id=\"2274612\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Samsung suddenly jacks up the prices of Galaxy S26 phones: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"The front and rear of a Samsung Galaxy smartphone.\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Sam Rutherford for Engadget<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Samsung has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/news\/samsung-galaxy-s26-plus-ultra-us-prices-officially-increased_id183747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">increased the prices<\/a> of its Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra phones by at least $100 on its website, even though most configurations were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/smartphones\/samsung-galaxy-s26-review-the-smartphone-status-quo-143033391.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already more expensive than last year&#8217;s equivalents<\/a> when they debuted in March. The S26 FE, which the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2245040\/samsung-galaxy-s26-fe-looks-like-a-perfectly-cromulent-budget-flagship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released a month ago<\/a>, is the only one of the current slate-style smartphones that avoided a sudden price increase.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Unless you go with an FE or wait for a sale (Black Friday is fast approaching and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2259124\/amazons-prime-big-deal-days-sale-returns-in-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon&#8217;s Prime Big Deal Days is next week<\/a>), it&#8217;ll now cost you at least $1,000 to pick up a Galaxy S26 phone. That&#8217;s the price for the base model with 256GB of storage, meaning that particular flavor of the Galaxy S26 is now $200 more than its Galaxy S25 equivalent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you want a Galaxy S26 with 512GB of storage, that&#8217;ll now run you $1,200. The Galaxy S26+ is $1,200 for 256GB of storage and $1,400 for the 512GB variant. As for the Galaxy S26 Ultra, you&#8217;ll need to pay $1,400 for 256GB of storage, $1,600 for 512GB and $2,000 for 1TB. That last one stands out since Samsung increased the price by $200, rather than $100 for the other variants.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even though S26 prices were higher and its revenue grew overall, Samsung&#8217;s mobile division <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2226808\/samsung-mobile-division-posts-first-ever-loss-due-to-soaring-memory-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted its first-ever loss<\/a> for the April-June quarter of this year. It pinned a decline in operating profit on higher costs and components like RAM and storage becoming more expensive. That&#8217;s most likely why the company jacked up the S26 prices again. (Engadget has contacted Samsung for clarification).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the contrary, Samsung&#8217;s chip division is doing gangbusters. It helped drive the company overall to all-time high quarterly revenue and operating profit in its second fiscal quarter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This may not be the end of Samsung&#8217;s smartphone price hikes, either. Reports suggest the company may make <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/09\/30\/galaxy-s27-series-pricing-may-not-only-increase-but-cost-more-to-upgrade-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">storage upgrades even more expensive<\/a> in the S27 lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most got a $100 increase while the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra jumped up by $200 to $2,000. &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":["post-633442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633442","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=633442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}