Last updated: March 9th, 2026 at 11:14 UTC+01:00
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Days before the phones go on sale.
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Abhijeet Mishra / SamMobile
In India, Samsung will stop taking pre-orders for the Galaxy S26 series tomorrow, and will make the phones available to purchase from authorised offline and online stores the day after (March 11, 2026). With two days to go for that, two of the country's most popular instant delivery platforms, Blinkit and Swiggy Instamart, have started selling them and can deliver them in minutes.
On Friday, Blinkit announced that it has made the Galaxy S26 series available to purchase on its platform in four cities: Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. Similarly, on Swiggy Instamart, we discovered that the Galaxy S26 was readily available to purchase in Delhi. If you know about these platforms, you will know that if you order on these platforms, they deliver it within minutes.
It is surprising to see instant delivery platforms selling the Galaxy S26 before Samsung makes it available to purchase from authorised offline and online stores across the country. That being said, considering that these phones were available to purchase even before the brand launched them, anything seems possible with the new lineup.
On a related note, Samsung started delivering the Galaxy S26 pre-orders earlier than it had promised, in many regions around the world, including Europe and India. You can read more about it here.
I’m a computer science engineer living in Hyderabad, India, who has a keen interest in automobiles and consumer electronics. My journalism career kicked off in 2017 with MySmartPrice where I wrote news, features, buying guides, and explanatory articles about technology among other things, and reviewed many products, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, PC components, smartwatches, audio devices, wearables, and smart home products. Since then, I have worked for 91Mobiles, Apple, and Onsitego, before finally landing on SamMobile.