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

Source: The Verge

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

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are “more of the same for more money,” as reported by Allison Johnson. Samsung has now confirmed that the memory shortage is partly to blame.

Samsung’s Won‑Joon Choi, COO of its mobile business, told The Verge that the RAM shortage alone made a “significant contribution” to the price increase. All the rising material costs, along with tariffs, factored into the Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus costing about $100 more than their predecessors this year, but the memory cost was “significant,” he said.

The S26 does come with double the storage this year at its higher price, offering 256 GB of storage.

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