Samsung is sending out invites on Tuesday for its next Galaxy Unpacked event, scheduled for February 25 in San Francisco, where the company is expected to launch its Galaxy 26 line of smartphones.
AI features will once again be at the fore, as the company says the upcoming phones are “built to simplify everyday interactions, inspire trust, and make the Galaxy’s AI feel seamlessly integrated from the moment it’s in your hand.”
A standout feature that the company has announced is a privacy display that is expected to debut on the Galaxy S26 Ultra. This feature will allow users to hide certain areas of the phone’s screen from onlookers to protect sensitive information. For example, users will be able to hide the notification area from prying eyes.
Reports suggest that the flagship phone in the range will run on the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite Gen 5 processor in the US and China. Samsung is likely to opt for its own Exynos 2600 processor in other regions. Resolution matters, but less and less. Snapdragon processors have historically outperformed Samsung’s Exynos chips in benchmarks and thermal efficiency, but the performance gap has been narrowing.
According to a report from tech site SamMobile, the S26 will also have a 5,100mAh (milliampere-hour, the standard unit of battery capacity) battery and will support 60W wired charging and 25W wireless charging.
In addition to the phones, Samsung is likely to release the updated Galaxy Buds 4 wireless headphones. The company plans to update the design from the previous generation, which was widely compared to Apple AirPods.
The event will begin at 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET/7:00pm CET and will be streamed live on Samsung’s website and YouTube channel.
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