Samsung Galaxy S26 series enhances mobile AI experience with new photography, privacy and agentic tasks

Samsung has presented its new flagship smartphones Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy S26+ y Galaxy S26with which it is committed to a more intuitive artificial intelligence (AI) experience, with new functions for photo editing, screen privacy at the ‘hardware’ level and agentic suggestions that improve the management of personalized tasks.

The company has announced its third generation of AI phones within the framework of a presentation event held in San Francisco (United States), where it has focused on offering an experience that manages complex tasks in the background, with integrated AI to act invisibly, facilitating users’ daily lives without interrupting their experience.

The objective is to move towards a new era of AI to which people can entrust their tasks “without the need for technical experience”, as stated by the president and director of Device eXperience (DX) at Samsung Electronics, hand in hand with One UI 8.5.

This family unifies its design for the three models, standard, plus and ultra, available in the colors blue, purple, white and black, with its characteristic set of rear cameras located in a line, rounded corners and straight edges.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S26 ULTRA

He Galaxy S26 Ultra is the top of the rangewhich has the design thinnest to datewith a thickness of 7.9 millimeters, reinforced with an aluminum edge, which also allows it to be lighter (214 grams).

Its screen is 6.9 inches con panel AMOLED QHD+ and a refresh rate of 120 Hz. Likewise, its design ensures durability and protection by continuing with the Corning Gorilla Armor 2 protective glass and IP68 certification, and it is made with recycled materials, including lithium and tantalum metal.

Inside, highlights the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy processor. This translates into an increase in performance in both the graphics (24 percent), the NPU (39 percent) and the CPU (19 percent), compared to the previous version.

Added to this is a redesigned vapor chamber with adapted thermal interface material (TIM), which promises an improvement in thermal efficiency, dissipating 20 percent more heat for a seamless experience.

Likewise, Samsung has included the functionalities ProScalerwhich allows images to be rescaled in real time on the device to view them in the best possible resolution, and mDAYwhich improves the range of precision in colors and shadows.

The battery is another aspect that Samsung has improved in the Ultra model, which, with a capacity of 5.000 mAhnow allows charge up to 75 percent in half an hourthanks to technology Super Fast Charging 3.0with a fast charge that has increased 60W. Likewise, wireless charging has also increased to 25W.

The range is completed with the new Galaxy S26 y 26+, which practically maintain the same characteristics as the previous models. As an improvement, they incorporate the new processor Samsung Exynos 2600, with which the firm ensures high performance, optimized for the device’s AI tasks. Furthermore, in the case of the S26 model, the screen size increases slightly from 6.2 to 6.3 inches and also the battery, which goes from 4,000 to 4,300 mAh.

NEW GALAXY CAMERA EXPERIENCE

The photographic section continues to be one of the central pillars. Although it maintains the same number of lenses as the previous generation, it introduces innovations to the model Ultra like a increase in aperture of the 200 MP main lens, which increases the luminosity by 47 percent.

Likewise, it has also been improved the brightness of the 50 MP telephoto lens by 37 percent with a 10x zoom. This aperture and luminosity will offer a better result in the captures, especially in dark environments, to which is added the algorithm Enhanced AP, that recognizes and reduces noise in night photography in addition to improving the contours, adapting to the needs of the lens being used at all times.

Samsung has introduced a new feature horizontal lock for videos which allows you to fix the horizon while recording and facilitate consistent framing. It also has a new APV video codecwhich allows you to record at the highest quality in 8K with a more compact format and without losing information.

Along with the camera capabilities, Samsung has also introduced its new camera experience Galaxy for Galaxy S26 series. This experience allows you to add elements to the image in a much simpler way, through a ‘prompt’.

With the Improved Photo Assistantit will be enough to simply write what you want to introduce or change in the image, so that Galaxy AI will generate these modifications in a few minutes. This option is built directly into the gallery app and allows for things like Turn a daytime photo into a night scene, merge multiple photos, or add elements.

Samsung has also improved its ‘Audio draft’which makes it easy to remove unwanted noise from videos and has been integrated into third-party streaming apps like YouTube, Netflix o Instagram.

Other improvements include the document scanningwhich is now more precise in removing any defects, such as wrinkles or bent corners, and scans multiple documents at once to merge them all into a single file.

MORE INTUITIVE GALAXY AI EXPERIENCE

The new S26 expands Galaxy AI capabilities towards a more intuitive experience with ‘Now Nudge’, a new on-device AI agent functionality that understands the context between ‘apps’ and suggests automatic actions based on usage. For example, when proposing a date on WhatsApp, you can check the calendar and confirm availability without the user asking.

Through agents and Galaxy AI,’Now Brief’ displays timely reminders based on context, it also allows you to further automate processes with simple orders, such as scheduling an Uber pickup for an event, using data such as location and time without additional intervention.

Samsung has also improved ‘Circle to search’ so that it more accurately recognizes the information displayed on the screen, focusing on various objects at different points on the screen.

All of this is driven from their perspective of multi-agent platform on Galaxy AI, For this reason, in addition to Gemini, it has integrated the AI ​​of Perplexity in selected applications such as Notes or Gallery under the ‘Hey, Plex’ command, in addition to continuing to rely on its Bixby agent to offer more intuitive control of the device.

PRIVACY WITH GALAXY

Samsung reinforces privacy with the first Privacy Screena ‘hardware’ level technology that obscures content from any angle other than the front. It is useful for consulting sensitive information in public, such as on transport or in cafes, since limits light emission to a spectrum visible only from the front.

In addition, it can be configured in a personalized way to activate automatically when opening certain ‘apps’ or be limited to specific parts such as notifications and actions such as entering a password.

Privacy also carries over to AI Call Filtering. This option allows Galaxy AI to answer calls by asking who is calling and why. Then share this information with the user to decide whether they want to respond or not.

Samsung has also included a private album in Gallery which allows you to hide selected photos and videos. All these functions are based on the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and Knox Matrix. All in all, the new Samsung Galaxy S26 series is available for pre-purchase starting this Wednesday, February 25.