MOBILE PHONE GALAXY S26 ULTRA/256GB VIOLET SM-S948B SAMSUNG

Meet Galaxy S26 Ultra, an AI phone featuring a customised processor that transforms your experience, our brightest camera system yet and the all-new built-in Privacy Display— all in the palm of your hand to enhance your everyday life.

MEET YOUR NEW AI PHONE
Refined Design
Introducing a new glass camera island that flows seamlessly into the device as part of a more refined design.

Privacy Display
With built-in Privacy Display, decide whether to hide your whole screen, specific apps, incoming notifications or PINs, Patterns and passwords when accessing Settings, Lock Screen and Secure Folder.

Performance
Our customised processor is built with improved NPU, GPU and CPU for enhanced AI performance.

Nightography Video
Wider apertures for 47% improved brightness on the 200 MP Wide camera, plus noise reduction deliver clear and detailed videos even in low-light environments.

Photo Assist
Get quick and easy photo editing by writing prompts using natural language, and Galaxy AI will take care of the rest.

PERFORMANCE
Our most powerful processor, customised for Galaxy
Meet the latest and most powerful processor ever on Galaxy. It's engineered to unlock the full potential of Galaxy AI for heavy multitaskers, powering a customised image enhancer that sharpens and smooths visuals across apps and content in real time. Plus, a 39% boost to the advanced NPU and 24% greater graphics processing handles the most demanding titles for mobile gamers.

An all-new Privacy Display, built in
Meet your built-in privacy screen, only on Galaxy S26 Ultra. Just manually switch on, and Privacy Display will use innovative technology to protect your private information by hiding your full screen from other people's view. Or, you can choose what you want to hide such as certain apps, all incoming notifications or for when you need to enter PINs and passwords in Settings, Lock Screen or Secure Folder.

Upscale your viewing experience
The display's colour depth processing precision makes a leap by 4 times, leveraging our advanced mobile Digital Natural Image engine (mDNIe) to ensure you see colour and gradation exactly as the creator intended. From the deepest tones to the most vibrant hues, it enables a substantial boost in graphical performance. ProScaler also enhances details thanks to AI processing improvements, resulting in clearer images.

Play it cool with our largest Vapor Chamber ever
Galaxy S26 Ultra is built for demanding sessions, whether you're running heavy-spec games or using Galaxy AI. Powered by Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, it delivers amplified gaming performance with fast, smooth and highly responsive gameplay. And with advanced thermal management from the new Vapor Chamber design, heat is disspated faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Alongside the tailored thermal interface material (TIM), the enhanced cooling system enables 21% greater thermal performance. Vulkan-optimised games also effectively render light and shadows while ray tracing creates 3D images with more realistic colours and reflections — further enhanced by the device’s powerful Snapdragon processor customised for Galaxy.

Ultra-fast charge. Ultra-long lasting
Galaxy S26 Ultra supports Super Fast Charging 3.0, engineered to refuel your device at blazing speeds without impacting battery health or your time.

Keep your favourites close with up to 1 TB
Galaxy S26 Ultra comes with three storage options: up to 1 TB with 16 GB of memory and 512 GB or 256 GB with 12 GB of memory, so you can choose the capacity that fits how you use your phone. Choose 1 TB if you are a power user who loves gaming, captures hi-res videos often or downloads large apps without slowing down your phone. Or pick between 256 GB and 512 GB to keep your favourite photos and essential apps for daily use.

CAMERA
Clear and bright, even at night
Galaxy S26 Ultra sets a new benchmark for Nightography with wider apertures and noise reduction that deliver clear and detailed videos in low-light environments.
The Wide camera now features a 47% brighter aperture that opens to F1.4, while the Telephoto camera opens to F2.9 for 37% improved brightness.
When shooting videos at night, our advanced AP provides noise reduction on individual noise patterns unique to each sensor type, ensuring each frame remains sharp and vibrant. So you can confidently record cinematic moments after sunset, from bustling city streets to intimate gatherings, with more details than before.3,4


Super Steady Video. Even on the go
Super Steady's Horizontal Lock feature combines expanded optical angles with gyro and acceleration sensors to recognise the direction of gravity and keep your shots level, even if you rotate a full 360°. Whether you're on rocky trails or chasing your fastest finish, get smoother, shake-free videos every time.

High resolution with Ultra 200 MP
Built around a 200 MP Wide camera sensor and enhanced by our ProVisual Engine, Galaxy S26 Ultra is engineered to capture the finest details. High-resolution image data is analysed in real time to maintain crisp textures and clarity across the whole scene for rich, true-to-life photos.

Space Zoom. See the unseen
Bring far away into focus, from 1x optical perfection to staggering 100x AI-powered Space Zoom — stabilising your view and enhancing clarity instantly.

Make every selfie
your best shot
Galaxy S26 Ultra's front camera now features an AI image signal processor (ISP) for more natural selfies with highlights and shadows where they should be — true to your natural skin tone and other details such as hair and eyebrows, just as your eyes see them.

GALAXY AI
Photo Assist.
Studio-level edits. Built in
Get quick and easy photo editing with just a few words and AI. Add objects, such as accessories on photos of your pet by naturally describing the edits you wish to make, and Galaxy AI will realise your vision in minutes.

From photos to stickers in a tap
Open Creative Studio and discover a dedicated space to create sticker sets. Mix sketches or photos with text that match your imagination. With a simple text description or a rough sketch outline, Galaxy AI produces the creations. Then, add the set to your keyboard or share it with your friends.

Real-time suggestions when you need it
Now Nudge
Powered by Galaxy AI, all-new Now Nudge can pick up on context on your screen and prompt you with helpful shortcuts. It intelligently minimises the steps to your next action and even provides Autofill suggestions.
Photos can be found and sent more easily. If someone asks for pictures from a recent trip, Now Nudge will understand which snaps you'll need and find them for you. It'll then take you to these specific photos in your Gallery, allowing you to select and send in just a few taps.

Now Brief
Keep your day simplified with Now Brief. It can now track your day-to-day and understand your habits better than before. Exercise playlist recommendations and reminders about important events, like booking details and special travel moments, are now all available as bite-sized briefs sent throughout the day.

Find it fast and easy
Reservation and appointment details are now just a quick search away, using everyday language. On the home screen, you can now use Finder to search for information such as preparations for an upcoming trip like flight details and reminders or notes you have saved. One search brings everything together helping you to remember where things are.

Bixby. Smart help, always available
Need help fast? Ask Bixby. It’s your personal device controller, now with the power to deliver a guide to help you learn how to use features and adjust settings for added convenience. If it's quick answers you need, it will even search the web for you in response to your natural, conversation-like questions.

Privacy by default. Protected by Knox
We’re committed to protecting your information, while providing transparency about how it’s used and shared.

On-device Protection
Our Personal Data Engine gathers and processes your personal data safely. Then it encrypts that data and saves it onto your device with KEEP and Knox Vault, making it harder for anyone else to gain access.30,31

Tailored Controls
Take control over your Galaxy AI. You decide where it gets processed, either on-device or in the cloud.

Connected Security
Knox Matrix Trust Chain technology provides security across Galaxy connected devices so you can monitor the security of other devices right from your Galaxy smartphone.

Circle it, find it
Use Circle to Search with Google to find multiple items of a look by simply circling an outfit on your screen, and it will help you find every piece — from tops to footwear and everything in between — all in one search. You can circle it, search it and find the look, all from exactly where you are.

ONE UI 8.5
Your Galaxy. Your way
Built to adapt to you, One UI 8.5 personalises your Galaxy based on how you use it day-to-day. Designed to be simple and intuitive, contextual reminders from Now Brief and intelligent suggestions from all-new Now Nudge and AI Select make daily tasks easier in just a tap.
WHY SWITCH TO GALAXY
Switching made simple
Imagine where our most powerful devices could take you. Switch to Galaxy and discover a world where all of your technology works together seamlessly, keeping you connected and in control.