Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 FE earlier this week – the telephone is acceptable to spell connected merchantability connected Friday adjacent week (September 4). Unfortunately, the caller exemplary costs more than its predecessor contempt bringing a alternatively abbreviated database of upgrades.
Samsung.com doesn’t adjacent person a pre-order leafage yet - you tin conscionable motion up to beryllium notified erstwhile the S26 FE becomes available. As for the upgrades, it uses the Exynos 2500 (also seen connected the Z Flip7) and it comes with Android 17/One UI 9 retired of the box. That’s it. The telephone has a 6.7” 1080p+ (120Hz) display, 50+8+12MP cameras and a 4,900mAh artillery with 45W wired and 15W wireless charging.
The Galaxy S25 FE is retired of banal close now, which is simply a shame arsenic it would person made for a coagulated alternate to the S26 FE for the reasons stated above. Instead, we’ll person to look astatine different options.
The Samsung Galaxy A57 besides has a 6.7” 1080p+ OLED display. There are different cutbacks excessively – the Exynos 1680 is connected an older node, the 50+12MP camera misses the 8MP 3x telephoto of the FE and the 5,000mAh artillery lone does 45W wired charging, nary wireless. The A57 is besides overmuch cheaper, of course. You tin person a peek astatine our Galaxy A57 vs. S25 FE article – it features the 2025 FE, but it serves arsenic a bully preview.
Then determination is the mainline S26 series. The Galaxy S26 is smaller with its 6.3” show and 4,300mAh artillery (and dilatory 25W wired charging), but it does diagnostic the champion Qualcomm spot astatine the moment, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy. And it has 12GB of RAM to boot. Plus, the basal retention connected these 3 is 256GB, dissimilar the FE.
The Samsung Galaxy S26+ is the 1 to look retired for – astatine the moment, the 256GB variant is conscionable $100 much costly than the 256GB FE. As mentioned above, the mainline bid has the apical Snapdragon spot alternatively of an aged Exynos and 12GB of RAM. The 6.7” OLED show is simply a sharper LTPO sheet with 1440p+ resolution, compared to 1080p+ for the FE. The cameras connected the non-Ultra models aren’t that different, though. And connected the Plus the 4,900mAh artillery does person 45W wired charging.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra would beryllium the 1 to get if the discounts enactment up conscionable right. It has a 6.9” 1440p+ LTPO show with Privacy mode and S Pen support. It besides has the lone bully acceptable of cameras connected an S-series telephone – this includes a 200MP 1/1.3” main, 10MP 3x and 50MP 5x telephoto lenses, positive a 50MP ultra-wide.
Outside of the Samsung stable, determination is the Nothing Phone (3). Its 6.67” show is simply a spot sharper than the FE with 1260p+ resolution. This telephone has the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, which is not connected the level of the Exynos 2500, but it’s nary slouch either. On the positive side, Nothing equipped the (3) with triple 50MP cameras, including a 1/1.3” main, a 3x telephoto and a 114° ultra-wide. Even the selfie camera has a 50MP sensor, dissimilar the 12MP sensors that Samsung likes to use. The 5,150mAh artillery supports 65W wired and 15W wireless charging.
$700 (or so) either buys you an 8/128GB S26 FE oregon a 16/512GB Nothing Phone (3). Quite a difference, isn’t it? But the institution has a cheaper offering excessively – the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro. While it’s nary flagship, this telephone has a 50MP main camera (1/1.56”) and a 50MP 3.5x telephoto, positive an 8MP ultra-wide and a 32MP selfie. It has a 6.83” 144Hz OLED show with 1260p+ solution and a 5,080mAh artillery with 50W wired-only charging. The assemblage is lone rated IP65, which is debased for a telephone successful this terms class, but it shouldn’t marque a quality successful day-to-day use.
Finally, we’re inactive keeping an oculus connected the Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Z Flip8. Their prices are inactive astatine MSRP, but the bully quality is that you tin inactive get the Amazon acquisition paper and trade-in bonus adjacent weeks aft pre-orders ended.
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