The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra launched astatine $1,300 for a 256GB portion – this was the aforesaid terms arsenic the S25 Ultra the twelvemonth before. The 512GB exemplary was a spot much costly astatine $1,500 (up from $1,420), but that wasn’t excessively bad. However, rising constituent costs forced Samsung to raise prices, truthful present the basal exemplary costs $1,400 and the mentation with 512GB retention is $1,600.
But you don’t person to wage those prices – it’s the past time of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, truthful you tin get Samsung’s non-foldable flagship with a 30% discount. You volition request an progressive Prime subscription, but you tin usage the escaped trial. And adjacent if you person already utilized up your proceedings period, the savings of $420 volition much than wage for a twelvemonth of Prime.
Naturally, you whitethorn beryllium considering getting a foldable – aft all, the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra besides has a 200MP camera, a 10MP 3x/69mm telephoto and a 50MP ultra-wide. All that’s missing is the 50MP 5x/111mm periscope, but that’s the astir important module.
Also, the foldable Ultra has the aforesaid artillery capableness astatine 5,000mAh. However, the S26 Ultra is the archetypal Galaxy telephone with 60W charging and gets a afloat complaint successful 43 minutes – the Z Fold8 Ultra uses the much blimpish 45W modular and needs 60 minutes instead.
Of course, some phones usage the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chipset. The S26 Ultra offers a 6.9” show with S Pen enactment and Privacy Display mode, portion the Z Fold8 Ultra has a 6.5” screen and an 8.0” interior display. For a much in-depth comparison, cheque retired our Galaxy S26 Ultra vs. Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra article. Keep successful caput that the Z Fold8 Ultra starts astatine $1,700 aft a 19% Prime discount.
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra (left), Galaxy Z Fold8 (middle) and Galaxy S26 Ultra (right)
We precocious posted a Galaxy S26 Ultra vs. iPhone 18 Pro Max article – those 2 are the premier non-folding flagships successful the US and we fishy that astir radical who privation a top-of-the-line exemplary that doesn’t fold volition beryllium picking up 1 of these two. We besides compared the S26 Ultra against its predecessor for radical doing yearly upgrades.
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