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Samsung retailers in Dubai seem to have stocked the Galaxy S26 Ultra, and an image showing its retail units stacked has appeared online.
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Samsung is holding the first Galaxy Unpacked event for 2026 in San Francisco tomorrow, where it will launch new Galaxy S series smartphones, which are expected to be the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. In a shocking turn of events, before the brand launches it, a content creator, Sahil Karoul, managed to buy the Galaxy S26 Ultra in Dubai.
Now, the content creator has shared an image showing many Galaxy S26 Ultra retail units stacked one over the other. According to Sahil, this picture was taken at a retail shop in Dubai, which has stocked the device and has started selling it even before Samsung launches it. Oddly, these units seem to be aimed at sale in African countries. You can check out the image below.
It doesn't happen often that retailers stock, let alone start selling, a Samsung smartphone before the brand has launched it. We are assuming that the South Korean tech giant has already started an investigation into this fiasco. Anyway, earlier today, the YouTuber also shared an unboxing video of the phone.
So far, this massive leak has detailed the Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display feature and revealed that its S Pen lacks Bluetooth and can be inserted into the device correctly in only one way. It has also given us our first look at the phone's performance benchmarks and rear camera samples in real life.
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