{"id":217557,"date":"2026-02-26T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/galaxy-s26-ultra-vs-iphone-17-pro-max-i-didnt-expect-this-winner\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:45:09","slug":"galaxy-s26-ultra-vs-iphone-17-pro-max-i-didnt-expect-this-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/galaxy-s26-ultra-vs-iphone-17-pro-max-i-didnt-expect-this-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy S26 Ultra vs iPhone 17 Pro Max: I didn\u2019t expect this winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galaxy S26 Ultra vs iPhone 17 Pro Max: I didn\u2019t expect this winner<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/galaxy-s26-ultra-vs-iphone-17-pro-max-3643593\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-26 05:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The new Galaxy S26 Ultra is out, and it\u2019s appealing enough to bring back Android fans who went into the Apple camp. While Samsung has made some weird choices with the Ultra over the last few iterations \u2014 keeping the design largely unchanged and even downgrading the iconic S Pen \u2014 this year feels a little different. The Galaxy S26 Ultra comes with tons of tiny improvements that make it so much more tempting when put together.<\/p>\n

If you got yourself an iPhone 17 Pro Max, and it\u2019s making you pull your hair out with all its Apple-y quirks, the Galaxy S26 Ultra may be the perfect phone that brings you back home.<\/p>\n

What makes the Galaxy S26 Ultra most tempting?<\/h3>\n

3 votes<\/p>\n

60W fast charging<\/p>\n

0%<\/p>\n

Built-in S Pen<\/p>\n

0%<\/p>\n

New AI tools<\/p>\n

33%<\/p>\n

The display upgrades<\/p>\n

67%<\/p>\n

It all adds up<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Hadlee Simons \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s priciest slab phone has stayed visibly unchanged for far too long. It almost felt like Samsung was playing it too safe, even while charging a premium for it. The Galaxy S26 Ultra seems to be the variant that fixes a lot of the complaints we\u2019ve had so far.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Galaxy S25 Ultra was a fantastic phone, per se, except for its ergonomics. It was too big, too rectangular, and too sharp to be used comfortably \u2014 even with two hands. It\u2019s as if Samsung was listening to us and has fixed literally every single one of those issues. The corner radius of the Ultra model now matches the regular Galaxy S26 models, so its sharp corners won\u2019t dig into your palm during one-handed use. The phone is also thinner and a touch lighter than the iPhone 17 Pro Max this time, which is a much-welcome change in the era of ever-growing phone sizes.<\/p>\n

Despite the newfound thinness, the Galaxy S26 Ultra now comes with an improved vapor chamber for better thermals, taking inspiration from the iPhone 17 Pro Max. But it\u2019s still a feat that Samsung could achieve that while making the phone thinner and lighter.<\/p>\n

Super-fast charging<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

\"Apple<\/p>\n

Aamir Siddiqui \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

I\u2019m genuinely pleased to see…<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galaxy S26 Ultra vs iPhone 17 Pro Max: I didn\u2019t expect this winner https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/galaxy-s26-ultra-vs-iphone-17-pro-max-3643593\/ Publish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Colors-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[124,80],"class_list":["post-217557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-16","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217559,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217557\/revisions\/217559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}