{"id":308663,"date":"2026-01-28T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308663\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:18:08","slug":"leak-says-galaxy-s26-series-might-dodge-ram-driven-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308663\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak says Galaxy S26 series might dodge RAM-driven price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s not to say that Samsung isn\u2019t feeling the squeeze when it comes to memory pricing; Quandt\u2019s post says that the company is absorbing increased materials costs to launch the S26 series at similar price points to the S25. He goes on to say we shouldn\u2019t expect free pre-order upgrades for the S26 series, however (you could nab the 512GB Galaxy S25 Ultra for the same $1,299 as the 256-gig model\u00a0during its launch window<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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S26: base models are pretty much the same price as last year, except for Ultra, which is ~100 Euro cheaper for 256 and 512GB<\/p>\n

S26U 1TB is the same as last year<\/p>\n

prices are changing in different ways. overall Samsung is \u201ceating\u201d the higher mem cost in most cases<\/p>\n

!no free preorder upgrades expected<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In a subsequent post<\/a>, Quandt qualified this info by saying it\u2019s \u201cbased on retail data from a country isn\u2019t paying in Euro\u201d \u2014 so it\u2019s possible parts of the full picture have been lost in translation, so to speak. Consistent year-over-year pricing in Euro markets also wouldn\u2019t necessarily guarantee that pricing will also remain the same in the US. Still, it\u2019s nice to hear any indication that Samsung\u2019s next generation of flagships might be spared from AI-driven RAM inflation, even if it would mean thinner margins for the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s not to say that Samsung isn\u2019t feeling the squeeze when it comes to memory pricing; Quandt\u2019s post…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,19,17,279,1470,20920,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-308663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-samsung","13":"tag-samsung-galaxy-s26","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115974812609219776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}