Samsung’s 2025 was crammed with new foldables, an ultra-thin new type issue and the launch of Google’s XR platform. After making some bulletins at CES 2026, the company is anticipated to host its first Galaxy Unpacked of the yr in February to introduce the Galaxy S26 lineup.
Engadget will be overlaying Galaxy Unpacked reside, and we’ll probably have hands-on protection of Samsung’s new smartphones quickly after they’re introduced. While we await an official invite, here is every part we anticipate Samsung will introduce at the first Galaxy Unpacked occasion of 2026.
Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra hands-on photograph (Photo by Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
Samsung’s restrained strategy to updating its telephones will seemingly proceed with the Galaxy S26. Based on leaked photographs of the new lineup, the company is just not anticipated to radically reinvent the look of the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+ or Galaxy S26 Ultra, and as an alternative will follow the same design to what it used on the Galaxy S25. The telephones will have a flat entrance display and body, with rounded corners and cameras housed in a vertical pill-shaped plateau on the again. Unlike Apple’s transfer from the iPhone 16 Pro to the iPhone 17 Pro, the greatest distinction right here will seemingly be inner elements like the screens, chips and digital camera sensors Samsung makes use of.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is anticipated to be in all Samsung Galaxy S26 telephones, although Korean information website Yonhap News reviews Samsung’s comparatively new Exynos 2600 chip might be utilized in some telephones in the lineup relying on the area, a method Samsung has deployed in the previous. Either method the new telephones ought to be extra performant than the earlier era, and in the case of the fashions with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, notably good at on-device AI processing.
One notable distinction between the Galaxy S26 and the Galaxy S25 might be the cellphone’s display. The new cellphone will reportedly characteristic a 6.3-inch FHD+ show in line with specs shared by leaker Ice Universe, which makes it ever so barely bigger than the 6.2-inch show used on the Galaxy S25. The S26 will additionally allegedly include 12GB of RAM, both 256GB or 512GB of storage and a barely bigger 4,300mAh battery. Samsung is not altering the cameras on the entry-level cellphone, although: leaks counsel it’s going to characteristic the identical 50-megapixel predominant digital camera, 12-megapixel ultrawide, 10-megapixel 3x telephoto and 12-megapixel selfie digital camera as the earlier era. Changes seem like much more minor on the Galaxy S26+. Other than the new Snapdragon chip, the cellphone will reportedly characteristic the identical 6.7-inch FHD+ display, 4,900mAh battery, 12GB of RAM and the identical digital camera array used on the base Galaxy S26.
The distinction between the Galaxy S26 Ultra and Galaxy S25 Ultra is reportedly a bit clearer. According to Android Headlines, the new cellphone’s cameras will be barely extra raised, and stand out because of a brand new metallic end. Samsung might also change again to utilizing an aluminum body on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, after utilizing titanium frames on each the Galaxy S24 and S25 Ultras. Most importantly, to make the cellphone really assist Qi2 slightly than solely technically work with the normal when a case is hooked up, rumors counsel Samsung will take away the S Pen digitizer layer in the cellphone and undertake a brand new technique for accepting stylus enter. It’s not clear what that new technique will really be, but it surely may let the Galaxy S26 Ultra extra simply work with Qi2 equipment with out shedding its stylus.
Galaxy Buds 4
Galaxy Buds 3 Pro in case. (Engadget)
Samsung launched the Galaxy Buds 3 and three Pro in 2024, with a serious redesign that introduced them way more according to Apple’s AirPods. The Galaxy Buds 4 and Buds 4 Pro Samsung is rumored to be asserting quickly will not essentially change that, although they will characteristic a extra compact case and fewer angular stems, in line with leaked photographs from the Samsung Tips app.
Support for head gestures to simply accept and decline calls, a characteristic Apple contains on the AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods 4, can also be rumored to work on each variations of the new Galaxy Buds. SamCell reviews the Galaxy Buds 4 and 4 Pro might also ship with a brand new Ultra Wideband chip that will make them simpler to seek out with Google’s Find Hub community.
Galaxy Z Trifold
Yes, the TriFold has a crease, two in reality. But they nonetheless do not spoil the expertise. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
Samsung introduced the Galaxy Z TriFold in late 2025 with out agency particulars of when the new smartphone-that-folds-into-a-tablet can be obtainable in North America. That information got here on January 27, when the company introduced the TriFold can be obtainable in the US on January 30, for a whopping $2,900. Considering we’ve already seen the gadget in particular person at CES 2026 and persons are probably to have had an opportunity to have a look at, if not purchase the foldable for themselves by the time Unpacked rolls round, we don’t anticipate Samsung to spend an excessive amount of time dwelling on it, if in any respect.
Galaxy S26 Edge
At simply 5.8mm thick, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is one in all the thinnest smartphones ever made. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
When the Galaxy S25 Edge was introduced in 2025, it appeared potential that Samsung may exchange its “Plus” smartphone with a singular type issue, identical to Apple has opted to do with the iPhone Air. There have been conflicting reviews on the matter, but it surely looks as if Samsung will not be doing that with the Galaxy S26 Edge.
Instead, the smartphone will reportedly stay an alternative choice, very similar to foldables are for patrons not swayed by Samsung’s conventional smartphones. The Galaxy S26 Edge is rumored to characteristic a barely totally different design than final yr’s mannequin, in line with Android Headlines, with a big rectangular digital camera plateau that is harking back to Google’s Pixel telephones, and the raised oval Apple used on the iPhone Air. Beyond that, the cellphone can also be anticipated to be ever so barely thinner at 5.5mm than the 5.8mm Galaxy S25 Edge.
Bixby and different AI options
Samsung already acts as a primary place Google can exhibit new AI options for Android, however the company is reportedly exploring different AI partnerships, too. In June 2025, Bloomberg reported that Samsung was nearing a cope with Perplexity to combine its AI-powered search engine throughout OneUI and its homegrown cell browser. Perplexity already has a cope with Motorola on its Razr telephones, so the solely factor that may make a cope with Samsung uncommon is the shut relationship the company already has with Google.
The company additionally unintentionally introduced a brand new model of its Bixby AI assistant, which will seemingly even be built-in with Perplexity and will function a substitute for Google Gemini. Both a brand new Bixby and a deeper integration with Perplexity look like pure new software program options to indicate off at Galaxy Unpacked.
Update, January 27 2026, 11:55AM ET: This story has been up to date to replicate the newest information round the Galaxy Z TriFold’s value and availability in the US.
