Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE Strips the S26+ All the way down to Its Fundamentals

The fourth member of Samsung’s Galaxy S26 sequence has arrived: the Galaxy S26 FE. The “Fan Edition” smartphone cuts again a few of the Galaxy S26+’s options to deliver pricing all the way down to $699.99.

That pricing is $50 greater than final yr’s Galaxy S25 FE, however value hikes are actually to be anticipated as a result of RAMpocalypse inflicting a scarcity of RAM for client gadgets. Still, it’s cheaper than the common $1,099.99 S26+ and the $899.99 S26, which has a smaller display.

While the S26 FE is a stripped-down S26+, it does get some options from Samsung’s newest Z Fold 8 foldables which are operating One UI 9 first, together with My FanCam, which makes use of AI to allow you to motion-track a topic in a captured video and recrop it in numerous sizes for posting to social media. Other One UI 9 options embrace a “Now Brief” that permits you to create customized card widgets and a “Now Nudge” that makes use of AI to offer extra proactive strategies based mostly on context.

Other Galaxy AI options, ported from the S26 sequence, embrace a built-in doc scanner for tidying up photographed paperwork, an audio eraser for eradicating undesirable background noises, and an improved Circle to Search that acknowledges a number of issues in a single view, to call a couple of.

Hardware-wise, the Galaxy S26 FE largely upgrades the principle and ultrawide cameras with new sensors for improved picture sharpness and higher nighttime seize. All 4 cameras (three on the again and one selfie) have the identical decision as earlier than: 50-megapixel fundamental, 12-megapixel ultrawide, 8-megapixel 3x telephoto with as much as 30x zoom, and 12-megapixel selfie.

You nonetheless get the identical 6.7-inch 120Hz AMOLED show with 1,900 nits of peak brightness, a 4,900mAh battery that helps 45W wired charging and 15W quick wi-fi charging, and 7 years of OS and safety updates.

The Galaxy S26 FE will likely be obtainable with 128GB or 256GB of storage, each with 8GB of RAM. Colors embrace Blueberry, Pistachio, and Graphite. They’ll be obtainable beginning Sept. 3.