While one Android flagship is seeing a launch so early, it’s beating out the holiday season, Samsung appears content to take its time building up to the Galaxy S26 series.
After several years of late January announcements ahead of early February availability, Samsung appears to be moving its Galaxy S26 launch event back several weeks more than usual. Korean outlet Money Today published a report suggesting a February 25th Unpacked event to be held in San Francisco. While Samsung held both the Galaxy S24 and S25 events in the Bay Area, those announcements were based in neighboring San Jose, and if you’ve been remotely following the tech world’s obsession, you’ll probably be able to guess the rumored reason for the move.
AI, reportedly, is the reason for Samsung’s jump back to San Francisco, with Money Today quoting a company official who declared the city a “center of AI technology.” While the company’s Galaxy AI suite of applications has yet to take the world by storm — it still feels like an afterthought to Gemini, even on Samsung’s own devices — I can’t imagine anyone is expecting Samsung to pivot away from this strategy in the foreseeable future.
As far as what device might actually see a launch on stage in February, we’re left with a surprising amount of mystery. It sounds like the Galaxy S26 trio might arrive in its usual state, with a smaller entry-level model paired with the S Pen-equipped Galaxy S26 Ultra and the S26+ sandwiched between. That’s a big change from just a couple of months ago, when we expected both a Galaxy S26 “Pro” and an ultra-slim S26 Edge model to make their debut alongside the Ultra.
If Samsung does keep its slimmed-down Edge series rocking, don’t expect it to arrive in February. It sounds like a slimmer redux could be on the way for 2026 after all, but like the S25 Edge before it, we’d see a late arrival following the launch of the rest of Samsung’s latest lineup. Whether that’s a good idea is, honestly, another debate entirely.
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