{"id":222958,"date":"2026-03-12T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-is-available-now-launch-deals-early-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:25:09","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-is-available-now-launch-deals-early-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-is-available-now-launch-deals-early-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is available now: Launch deals, early sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-launch-day\">Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is available now: Launch deals, early sales<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-launch-day\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-launch-day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 18:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mashable.com\">mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new King of the Hill in the smartphone world. At least, if you&#8217;re an Android user.<\/p>\n<p>After a two-week pre-order period, Samsung officially launched the Galaxy S26 Ultra, its next-gen flagship phone. The Galaxy S26 Ultra is unique among recent mobile launches for having a genuinely new hardware feature, a rarity in the age of annual release cycles and iterative updates. (We did see some cool stuff at Mobile World Congress 2026, however.)<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces the world&#8217;s first Privacy Display, which operates at the pixel level. This feature blacks out the whole screen, specific apps, or notifications from those around you, and it&#8217;s legitimately very cool. Once again, the Korean tech giant is introducing features that Apple has no answer to. See also: the Galaxy Z Trifold.<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"font-bold text-primary-400\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"ml-1\">4 things you can do with Galaxy S26 Ultra&#8217;s Privacy Display<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"normal-case text-gray-1000\">A notification blacked out by Privacy Display.<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"text-gray-600 credit\">Credit: Joe Maldonado \/ Mashable<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p>The phone is already listed as a No. 1 best seller at Amazon. If you&#8217;ve been eyeing an upgrade, or if you&#8217;re considering defecting from iOS to Android, here&#8217;s a quick download on the new AI smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-contain absolute inset-0 p-12 w-full h-full\" src=\"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/product\/00JUSWt5oK6Gx1lh6pBtlfA\/hero-image.fill.size_252x256.v1773207318.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra AI Smartphone\" width=\"252\" height=\"256\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                    <span class=\"text-sm font-bold\">Free Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra at AT&#038;T With Trade-in and Unlimited Plan<\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"text-xs\"> at AT&#038;T Wireless<\/span><br \/>\n                                                        <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The Galaxy S26 Ultra: By the numbers<\/h2>\n<p>The Samsung&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-launch-day\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is available now: Launch deals, early sales https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-launch-day Publish Date: 2026-03-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/01YQ82LSqkmWIR5ZnTr375i\/hero-image.fill.size_1200x675.v1773266568.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222958"}],"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=222958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222960,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222958\/revisions\/222960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}