Everything Samsung revealed at its Galaxy Unpacked event

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Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked lawsuit successful San Francisco connected Wednesday saw the Korean tech elephantine unveil its caller S26 bid of Galaxy smartphones, a brace of caller earbuds, and speech a batch astir AI assistants and agents.

Here’s a speedy recap of everything announced astatine the event.

Galaxy S26 smartphones

The South Korean tech elephantine has lined up 3 caller smartphones for the year: Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy S26 Plus, and Galaxy S26, each of which diagnostic iterative updates compared to their predecessors.

As the flagship, the S26 Ultra comes with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, a 6.9-inch QHD+ display, and a 5,000 mAh battery. Samsung says the telephone tin complaint from 0% to 75% successful 30 minutes with a 60W charger, and supports the S-Pen stylus.

Samsung said portion the S26 Ultra’s wide (200-megapixel) and telephoto (50-megapixel) lenses clasp the aforesaid pixel number arsenic its predecessor, the caller wide camera has a bigger aperture of f/1.4, arsenic does the telephoto lens, with an aperture of f/2.9.

The different 2 phones person the aforesaid processor arsenic the S26 Ultra, but Samsung is utilizing its ain Exynos 2600 processor for these devices successful immoderate geographies. The smaller Galaxy S26 gets a artillery bump from past year’s phone, and the S26 Plus tin complaint wirelessly astatine 20W.

The Galaxy S26 starts astatine $899 ($100 much than past year’s model), the Galaxy S26 Plus starts astatine $1,099 (also $100 much from past year), and the Galaxy S26 Ultra starts astatine $1,200.

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Privacy show is the marquee diagnostic for Ultra

Besides the hardware upgrades, Samsung has made a neat update to the S26 Ultra’s show that prevents radical astir you from speechmaking what’s connected the phone’s screen.

Users tin take to fell definite parts of the screen, similar the notification country oregon the password tract successful login forms, oregon each of it. The privateness show tin beryllium configured for each app.

Samsung said determination is simply a “maximum privateness protection” diagnostic arsenic well, which tones down agleam areas and lifts up acheronian parts of the screen.

Gemini’s agentic makeover and caller ‘Circle to Search’

Google besides made two important announcements astatine Samsung’s event. First, the hunt elephantine previewed a caller agentic mentation of Gemini that tin execute tasks connected your behalf, specified arsenic hailing a cab from Uber.

Samir Samat, caput of Android ecosystem astatine Google, showed a demo wherever Gemini looks astatine a radical chat and figures retired the repast bid that it should spot connected Grubhub.

The institution besides introduced a caller mentation of “Circle to Search” that uses multi-object designation to hunt for thing that you item connected your phone’s display.

AI features

Earlier this week, Samsung said it was partnering with Perplexity to pre-load the AI company’s app connected its smartphones and usage its APIs to bash worldly similar acceptable alarms oregon instrumentality notes, arsenic good arsenic powerfulness its browser’s hunt capabilities.

Samsung’s smartphones present travel with 3 AI assistants: Bixby, Google Gemini, and Perplexity. The institution is besides utilizing Galaxy AI to surface calls and springiness you a summary of what the caller says.

Samsung Galaxy Buds4

Samsung has besides released 2 caller earphones: the Galaxy Buds4 and the Galaxy Buds4 Pro. These earphones person a flatter stem plan than their predecessors, and are rated IP54 and IP57, which means they are somewhat protected from particulate and water.

Samsung says the Buds4 Pro has a caller 11mm woofer, which widens the talker country by 20%. The Pro models besides diagnostic a somewhat longer artillery beingness without the lawsuit compared to the regular version.