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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: Every Major Announcement in 10 Minutes

Samsung has moved beyond simple chatbots and introduced Agentic AI, a new ecosystem where your phone doesn’t just answer questions, but performs tasks for you. From the powerhouse Galaxy S26 Ultra to the new Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, we’ve edited the highlights down to the moments that actually matter. You can find the products mentioned…

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Samsung has moved beyond simple chatbots and introduced Agentic AI, a new ecosystem where your phone doesn’t just answer questions, but performs tasks for you. From the powerhouse Galaxy S26 Ultra to the new Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, we’ve edited the highlights down to the moments that actually matter.

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Galaxy Unpacked 2026 Live Updates: Samsung’s S26 Reveal Is Here

0:00 Intro
0:18 Reach, Openness and Confidence
1:30 Bixby, Perplexity and Agentic AI
3:31 Gemini 3
4:13 Powerful Processing
5:38 Privacy Display
6:33 Camera
8:31 Galaxy S26 Ultra, S26 + and S26 Info
9:34 Galaxy Buds 4

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34 Comments

  1. @LetMePaintYouAVisualStudios

    February 25, 2026 at 4:37 pm

    CNet with the great assist on condensing the keynotes 🎉

  2. @xtuff501

    February 25, 2026 at 4:38 pm

    😪

  3. @skidamerica

    February 25, 2026 at 4:42 pm

    The privacy cheat screen

  4. @tulfrich

    February 25, 2026 at 4:55 pm

    Ai….and privacy display

  5. @GPSniper1

    February 25, 2026 at 4:59 pm

    Only 12gb ram on ultra. Bad no improvement

    • @MaxMobile22

      February 25, 2026 at 5:15 pm

      It should’ve been 16gb RAM on all of the Ultra’s the only way to get 16gb RAM is with the 1TB variant.

    • @PSYCHOV3N0M

      February 25, 2026 at 5:32 pm

      Meanwhile multiple Chinese phones have 24GB of RAM for running local LLM’s. 😎👍

  6. @igormarcos687

    February 25, 2026 at 5:02 pm

    Nothing interesting, just more talk about cameras that actually no one notices the difference and AI that more than not care people dislike… Total disconnect with their customers…

  7. @igormarcos687

    February 25, 2026 at 5:02 pm

    “Agentic AI phone” is the cringiest thing I have ever heard and Samsung has lost my trust.

    • @PSYCHOV3N0M

      February 25, 2026 at 5:31 pm

      You’re a delusional fool for ever giving ANY tech company your trust to begin with.

      🤣🤣🤣

  8. @bladeover681

    February 25, 2026 at 5:20 pm

    it’s behind Chinese flagships it’s copying apple steps

    • @ANtZ64

      February 25, 2026 at 5:25 pm

      It’s hard to say they’re ‘catching up’ when Samsung has been leading on hardware for years. They pioneered the foldable market (the Z Fold 7 is light years ahead of any rumored ‘iPhone Fold’), introduced high-refresh-rate displays long before Cupertino, and their new Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra is a hardware innovation Apple hasn’t even touched yet. If anything, they’re setting the pace. Actually, the benchmarks for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in the S26 Ultra are already showing it beating the A19 Pro in multi-core performance. Add to that the 16GB of RAM and much faster charging speeds—areas where Apple is consistently conservative—and it looks like Samsung is the one pushing the ceiling right now.

    • @TechOs19

      February 25, 2026 at 5:32 pm

      @ANtZ64not true. iPhones have been king in terms of video recording: Apple introduced Apple pro res Log back in 2023 and have been recording their events on iPhones. Now Samsung introduced it

    • @ANtZ64

      February 25, 2026 at 5:44 pm

      ​@TechOs19 My statements concerning the Foldable market, Snapdragon beating the A19 Pro in multi-core performace and the new privacy display are TRUE!
      And it’s not just about adding Log. The S26 Ultra introduced the APV (Advanced Professional Video) codec. Unlike ProRes, it’s an open standard that’s 20% more storage-efficient while maintaining the same visually lossless quality. Apple might have been first to the professional codec game, but Samsung just made it more practical for actual mobile use where storage is a bottleneck. Samsung is using this new codec to push 8K at 30fps, something the iPhone still doesn’t do. Plus, Samsung’s new Horizontal Lock (360-degree stabilization) and the f/1.4 aperture on the main sensor mean they’re providing hardware tools for video that Apple simply hasn’t matched yet.

    • @TechOs19

      February 25, 2026 at 7:09 pm

      @ANt@ANtZ64 bla bla bla pure gimmicks with multi core scores 😂 The 2nm A20 Pro chip will surpass that snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 in September. The video recording will always be better on newer iPhones because Samsung still doesn’t have Pro res RAW OPEN GATE👀even though storage is heavier.

    • @ANtZ64

      February 25, 2026 at 7:18 pm

      ​@TechOs19Calling multi-core scores ‘gimmicks’ while banking on a chip that hasn’t even been released yet is a bit ironic. 😂 Samsung didn’t just ‘add a codec’; they integrated Direct-to-SSD recording across all pro modes and added a dedicated ISP (Image Signal Processor) just for AI-noise reduction in 8K video. Apple is iterating; Samsung is re-engineering the camera.
      Open Gate is great for anamorphic lenses, but for mobile shooting, it’s niche. Samsung’s move to the APV (Advanced Professional Video) codec is actually the smarter play. It gives you the same 12-bit depth and dynamic range as ProRes RAW but at a 30% lower bitrate. Why waste storage on ‘heavy’ Apple files when Samsung gives you the same grading flexibility with better efficiency?
      Samsung’s new f/1.4 aperture and the 1-inch type main sensor on the S26 Ultra physically capture more light and detail than the iPhone’s smaller sensor ever could. Apple is leaning on software (ProRes) to make up for hardware that’s technically a generation behind.

  9. @masterkurs

    February 25, 2026 at 5:24 pm

    Wow boring

  10. @PhillipLemmon

    February 25, 2026 at 5:40 pm

    So it’s been true….
    HARDWARE INNOVATION HAS PEAKED!
    AI IS PHONES NOW.
    AI IS CPU’SNOW
    AI IS GPU’S NOW

  11. @Webinthamind

    February 25, 2026 at 5:53 pm

    Very happy and satisfied with my S24 Ultra

    Will wait for S30Ultra

  12. @CNET

    February 25, 2026 at 6:07 pm

    Read more about Galaxy Unpacked on CNET.com: Galaxy Unpacked 2026 Live Updates: Samsung’s S26 Reveal Is Here

  13. @joshuajlewis1575

    February 25, 2026 at 6:13 pm

    The number of times they mentioned AI makes me think the time traveler may come back to stop Samsung.

  14. @shaun.christensen

    February 25, 2026 at 6:18 pm

    Say AI one more time.

    • @MrMjolnir009

      February 25, 2026 at 6:51 pm

      In Samuel L. Jackson’s voice!!! 😂😂😂

  15. @citogrid

    February 25, 2026 at 6:21 pm

    Oh, cool, they’ve added a new buzzword to the buzzword. Agentic, AI… next year will be Super Samsung AGI Integration SSAI…

  16. @daniebello

    February 25, 2026 at 6:48 pm

    privacy display is the killer feature

  17. @MrMjolnir009

    February 25, 2026 at 7:00 pm

    Samsung: Galaxy AI… Galaxy AI… Galaxy AI… Galaxy AI… Blah, blah, blah…

    Consumer: That’s all you got?? 🧐

    Samsung: Yeah, pretty much. 🤷‍♂️

  18. @focu5031

    February 25, 2026 at 7:05 pm

    🥱

  19. @hungson215

    February 25, 2026 at 7:05 pm

    The weakness of Samsung phones is the battery. Also, their native apps have ads

  20. @Hoy_phil

    February 25, 2026 at 7:15 pm

    There to much ai something that’s going to make people more stupid

  21. @curbsidetech

    February 25, 2026 at 7:33 pm

    Watching on my S21 ultra this seems like its from the future😂

  22. @rosalinasuano9040

    February 25, 2026 at 7:33 pm

    Tan awa unsa ka bastos tubag tubagon ka nga naputos ka sa utang Aron mabuhinsiya dayon uban tawo ga ngisi ngisi Ra ang yawa Ikaw ray singkasingkahan ang bugo nga yawa ubos ngisi ngisi Rana perting katawa

  23. @HandheldAddict

    February 25, 2026 at 7:41 pm

    1:31 Bixby came back?!? 😂

  24. @Chabippe

    February 25, 2026 at 7:55 pm

    Disappointing presentation. Apart from the privacy display feature, there was nothing genuinely exciting – mostly incremental software improvements. Users who actually needed privacy protection could already get inexpensive add-on privacy glass, often with better overall screen protection. Personally, I’ve never encountered a situation where I needed to disable a privacy feature at all.

  25. @grigorg1611

    February 25, 2026 at 8:03 pm

    I was expecting so much more Samsung, advice from most users, NO ONE CARES about AI and this privacy screen, give us hardware improvements!!

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