Samsung S26 Series

It's gotten to the point where you really need to question if there's any need for annual releases.

I used to be an upgrade every year guy but phones are now at a point where all yearly upgrades are pretty minimal. I bought the S23 ultra on launch 3 years ago and I literally didn't need a new phone until this year and that's only because the battery went t*ts up after oneui 8.0

Correct. As long as people keep buying the discounts and trade in prices will go down.

Definitely a bit of planned obsolescence going on in addition to batteries aging.

Ps did anyone get the €30 credit for registering for the live event? I never got anything from Samsung at all.

Don't recall the credit thing, but other than the €100 off code and the 10% code, don't recall getting anything else.

Not much use with 15% codes freely available anyway. At least the Paypal option whips another ton off.

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My daughter dropped her 23u & broke the screen but the metal body was in perfect condition.

The Galaxy S range is the toughest, most resilient of all Samsung phones.

The galaxy S26u isn't released yet so I don't believe anyone has a dented S26u at the moment

Nope, none of the codes are stackable

Had a quick play around with the S26 Ultra in the 3 shop on Grafton St. today. I'm upgrading from an S22 Ultra due to battery issues. Seems like nice upgrade to be fair.

People whinge every year with a new release, only thing I'm annoyed with is how **** the trade in/pre order deals are this year

I believe last year you predicted that the S25 wouldn't get near the sales of S24, which didn't turn out to be the case.

Maybe this will be the year, and if it is I'd say a massive factor is the cost of upgrade is considerably higher.

I don't think I've gone more than a year without changing phones in over 20 years. This could be the first year.

Yeah its like people are just frustrated with the lack of innovation in general in the mobile world at the moment but this phone really seems to be the lightning rod for criticism more so than any others in recent memory. Reddit is also universally giving out about how sh*t it is blah blah blah.

The battery is the obvious spec to jump on as lack of progress and it did surprise me that they havent increased the size in what 5 years almost? However it seems like there's a lot more efficiencies going on under the hood going by the battery reviews its significantly outperforming the S25U. My S23Ultra had amazing battery life for the first 2 year it was only last year and Oneui 8.0 that seemed to kill it. Its horrendous now hence the switch.

The privacy screen is innovative (i've seen some mad claims online about it but at least they are trying something new) wait until Apple do their inevitable version and it will be heralded as the second coming of christ when it happens :-) The screen is now 10 bit and the phone now charges at 60w, the camera while very similar has a more detailed lense for low light, its thinner and lighter. All in all i think its a good standard iteration.

The days of upgrading a phone every year are gone for most people unless you get crazy good trade in deals. As others said if its not for you just skip it but everything these things is the worst thing ever or else the best. There is no happy medium. Either way i'm looking forward to getting my hands on it i'm assuming they are being sent out Friday.

Xiaomi doesn't offer compelling enough deals in Ireland. The 17 Ultra is €1500, and I can't see any discounts available. I'm currently stranded in Australia due to this crap in Iran, and when I googled it I got the Aussie pricing. Works out to €1000 here, much more aggressive discounts and promotion on launch.