The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are « more of the same for more money, » my colleague Allison Johnson reported this week. Now, Samsung is confirming what we previously only suspected: RAMageddon is partly to blame.
Samsung’s Won-Joon Choi, the COO of its mobile business, tells The Verge that the memory shortage alone made a « significant contribution » to the price. All the increasing material costs factored into the Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus costing $100 more than their predecessors this year, as did tariffs, but the memory was « significant, » he tells me.
The S26 does come with double the storage this year at its higher price, with 256GB ra …
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