The Galaxy S26 bid has been a smash deed for Samsung – the trio sold 3 cardinal units successful its location state of South Korea successful conscionable 118 days. That’s nether 4 months. For comparison, the erstwhile Galaxy S25 procreation launched successful aboriginal February and deed the 3 cardinal mark successful aboriginal August, which is six months. Before that, the S24 bid needed 2 months much to scope the aforesaid target.
The 2026 flagships started disconnected beardown with 1.35 cardinal implicit 7 days of pre-orders successful Korea, up from the erstwhile grounds of 1.3 cardinal acceptable by the S25 bid – and the older models had 11 days of pre-orders.
Most of the request was for the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which accounted for 70% of pre-orders. EInfoMax, which shared these numbers, does not person a elaborate breakdown for the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ pre-orders, but considering that they person to divided 30%, neither of them is simply a large success.
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra • Galaxy S26+ and S26
According to South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, exports of wireless connection devices successful June amounted to $1.55 cardinal – an summation of 51.9% implicit June of 2025.
For the archetypal fractional of this year, the exports totaled $9.9 billion, a 31.5% summation implicit H1 2025. Note that these exports see much than conscionable smartphones, but the Ministry stated: “Exports recorded affirmative maturation compared to the archetypal fractional of the erstwhile year, centered connected finished products, owed to beardown income of the Galaxy S26 bid released successful the archetypal quarter.”
So the S26 bid is selling good globally too. But going backmost to South Korea, Samsung is seeing specified beardown request that it accrued its accumulation people for S26 phones for July from 1 cardinal units to 1.5 cardinal units, reports ETNews.
Samsung ran a income run titled “Samsung Electronics Appreciation Festival with the People” betwixt June 8 and July 5, during which radical received 20% of the wealth they spent backmost successful the signifier of integer acquisition certificates.
This positive fears that the Galaxy S27 bid volition beryllium much expensive pushed radical to prime up a Galaxy S26. The effect of each this was a three-fold summation successful income from Samsung.com and unfastened markets. This besides caused extended shipping times – transportation dates for the Galaxy S26 Ultra person slipped into August.
The forecasts for the 3rd 4th of 2026 are for Galaxy S26 income to stay strong. However, the Galaxy Z foldables (including a caller wide foldable) volition beryllium unveiled connected July 22 (pre-reservations person already started), truthful Samsung volition re-assess accumulation targets for S26 phones successful August based connected income trends and inventory levels.
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