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Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher pricetag

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are

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“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.

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The S26 does come with double the storage this year at its higher price, with 256GB ra …

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