Deals: here's how to avoid the Galaxy S26 series price hike

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In lawsuit you missed it, Samsung increased the Galaxy S26 prices globally – successful the US, they are $100 higher than they were astatine motorboat 7 months ago. And adjacent backmost then, astir configurations outgo much than the equivalent S25 models did past year.

However, it’s not excessively precocious to prime up a Galaxy S26, S26+ oregon S26 Ultra astatine a bully price. Your champion stake astatine the infinitesimal is astir apt Walmart – not lone has the retailer not applied the caller prices, but it is adjacent selling the phones astatine a discount compared to the aged prices. In the lawsuit of the S26 Ultra, that is up to $500 off.

Samsung’s revised terms for the Galaxy S26 Ultra is $1,400 for the basal 12/256GB exemplary (well, not rather – spot below). Walmart volition merchantability it to you for nether $1,000. If you haven’t researched it yet, here’s however the S26 Ultra compares against the S25 Ultra and the iPhone 17 Pro Max.

The Galaxy S26 FE pricing didn’t change, but that conscionable means that it’s inactive overpriced – the 8/128GB exemplary is $700 and the 8/256GB 1 is $800. For conscionable $40 more, you tin person a 12/256GB Galaxy S26+ instead. Note the other RAM, but that’s hardly the lone vantage – the surface and chipset are different notable upgrades implicit the FE. The FE exemplary aside, here’s however the S26+ compares against the S26 Ultra and the S25+.

The vanilla Samsung Galaxy S26 present starts astatine $1,000, which crosses a intelligence obstruction – a four-digit sum for a non-Pro, non-Ultra telephone doesn’t marque sense. Thankfully, Walmart is lone charging $730 for it, which is simply a batch much reasonable. The upgrade to 512GB retention is rather pricey, though.

We besides checked Amazon, which seems to person reverted to the archetypal pricing of the Galaxy S26 bid from erstwhile they launched successful March. The 256GB Galaxy S26 has a bully discount, but it’s cheaper implicit astatine Walmart.

By the way, Amazon is gearing up for Prime Big Deal Days – the income lawsuit starts connected Tuesday. We conjecture this is wherefore it’s holding backmost its champion offers. As usual, you volition request an progressive Prime subscription to get the woody prices, but a proceedings subscription volition enactment conscionable fine.

It seems that adjacent Samsung doesn’t rather judge its pricing, truthful the Galaxy S26 Ultra has a $150 discount without immoderate trade-ins required. If you bash nonstop successful an aged phone, you tin get up to $720 successful trade-in credit. The Galaxy S26 and S26+ don’t person no-trade-in discounts, however.

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