This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, February 25th, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand.

Today, Samsung announced new phones and Jason Howell has the scoop.

I'm Tom Merritt.

And I'm Sarah Lane.

Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

Samsung held its Galaxy unpacked event.

And yesterday, Jason Howell had a little bit of the scoop and gave us his first impressions.

Ah, Jason, thanks for bringing us the scoop.

Yeah, I love bringing the scoopage.

Sometimes I show up with a scoop in peanut butter or maybe a tub of ice cream.

This time I'm showing up with a scoop and Samsung News.

A scoop full of Galaxy S26s, I hear.

Give us the rundown on the updates here.

Yeah, well, I mean, obviously, you know, Galaxy Unpacks, this is where all the new, you know, the flagships for the year, essentially, that aren't, that don't fold into two or three pieces, let's say.

These are the non-foldable galaxy phone, flagship phones.

Yeah, exactly. These are the ones that you're going to see when you walk into a carrier store or whatever, you know, that carriers are going to try and get you to buy because they're expensive, right? So they've got the S-26. Speaking of expensive, the S-25, I think, came in at $799.99. like the entry point this year that goes up $100.

So just the S-26 is $100 more, $800,99.

So let's just say $900.

The S-26 plus is the second.

That's still at $1,000.

And then the S-26 Ultra, which I believe is $1,300.

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