{"id":462166,"date":"2026-03-07T07:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:13","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s26-series-smashes-the-pre-order-record-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462166\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S26 series smashes the pre-order record in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series<\/a> has smashed the pre-order record in South Korea. In the seven days between February 27 and March 5, Samsung saw 1.35 million pre-orders. For comparison, the Galaxy S25 trio last year<\/a> reached 1.3 million pre-orders in 11 days. This may be enough to finally dethrone the Galaxy Note10 achievement from 2019.<\/p>\n

It shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone that the Galaxy S26 Ultra<\/a> was the most popular model and it accounted for a whopping 70% of pre-orders. Okay, we admit this is a little surprising \u2013 the Ultra tends to dominate, just not that much. Last year, the S25 Ultra made up \u201conly\u201d 52% of all pre-orders.<\/p>\n


\n\"The<\/a>
\n\"The<\/a>
\n
The most popular Galaxy S26 Ultra colors: Black and White<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t get a breakdown of how the Galaxy S26<\/a> and Galaxy S26+<\/a> split the remaining 30% between themselves. Last year things were relatively even (26% of buyers went with the S25, 22% with the S25+), but this year both models struggled to attract attention despite higher overall interest in the S26 series.<\/p>\n


\n\"The<\/a>
\n\"The<\/a>
\n
The most popular Galaxy S26+ colors: Cobalt Violet and Black<\/p>\n

The three S26 models are available in four base colors, plus two Samsung.com exclusive hues. However, S26 Ultra buyers gravitated towards White and Black for the most part. Meanwhile, S26+ buyers were a little more adventurous and predominantly picked Cobalt Violet… and Black. Maybe this is why companies don\u2019t release phones in fun colors – people just aren\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n

Anyway, check out our Galaxy S26 Ultra review<\/a> for a detailed look at what is new, what has improved and what hasn\u2019t. We also have the Galaxy S26 in for review<\/a> as well as the Galaxy S26+<\/a>, so expect detailed reports on them soon.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a> | Via<\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 5G<\/p>\n

Samsung Galaxy S26+ 5G<\/p>\n

Samsung Galaxy S26 5G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Samsung Galaxy S26 series has smashed the pre-order record in South Korea. In the seven days between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-462166","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\/462166","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=462166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}