{"id":460540,"date":"2026-03-06T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460540\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:27:09","slug":"preorders-for-galaxy-s26-series-in-korea-hit-1-35-million-to-hit-s-series-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460540\/","title":{"rendered":"Preorders for Galaxy S26 series in Korea hit 1.35 million to hit S series record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 06 Mar. 2026, 15:37\n                            <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Participants test the Galaxy S26 Ultra at the Samsung Electronics Galaxy booth during Mobile World Congress 2026 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain, on Mar. 2. [JOINT PRESS CORPS] \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cacfbee5-2209-4da6-b9b2-63b341c47510.jpg\" data-reuse=\"allowed\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Participants test the Galaxy S26 Ultra at the Samsung Electronics Galaxy booth during Mobile World Congress 2026 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain, on Mar. 2. [JOINT PRESS CORPS] <\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Samsung Electronics said Friday preorders for its Galaxy S26 series in Korea reached 1.35 million, setting a new record for the flagship S series.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> The figure surpassed about 1.3 million preorders placed for the Galaxy S25 lineup in 2025, the company said.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/>\n Samsung said among the three models of the latest series\u00a0\u2014 the S26, the S26+ and the S26 Ultra \u2014 the premium Ultra edition accounted for 70 percent of total preorders, reflecting strong demand for high-end smartphones.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> The company said white and black were the most popular options for the Ultra and the base model, while the Galaxy S26+ was most frequently ordered in black and violet.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> The S26 Ultra features the industry&#8217;s first built-in privacy display and runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy processor, which delivers a 39 percent improvement in neural processing unit performance compared with its predecessor.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Consumers who purchased the devices through preorders can activate them through the country&#8217;s mobile carriers starting Friday, with the official release scheduled for Wednesday in Korea, the United States, Britain and India. <\/p>\n<p>Yonhap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 06 Mar. 2026, 15:37 Participants test the Galaxy S26 Ultra at the Samsung Electronics Galaxy booth during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-460540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}