Make sure you've got some extra cash saved up if you're looking at buying a Galaxy S26, as new reporting suggests Samsung may be forced to up the price of its next-gen flagship phones.

Korean outlet ETNews, citing industry sources, claims that due to increased smartphone part costs, a price hike for the Galaxy S26 series is inevitable. And the numbers the report cites don't make for pleasant reading.

ETNews notes that there has been a 12% price increase for smartphone chips and an 8% one for camera modules over the past year. And even worse than that, there's apparently been a 16% increase in RAM prices just since the start of 2025.

The report also claims it's likely that the RAM pricing situation in particular could get still worse, as memory production becomes further skewed toward hi

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