The release of the Samsung Galaxy S26 means that the Galaxy S25 series isn't top of the food chain anymore. Samsung makes some of the best Android phones around, but with the Ultra models often getting the lion's share of upgrades, the base models are typically only left with the scraps.
With that in mind, it might seem as though there aren't a whole lot of differences between the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S25 — not beyond the usual slew of hardware upgrades we see every year, anyway. But is that actually the case? To find out, we put them head-to-head to see how much better the latest model is over its predecessor.
