Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE Raises Price $50 While Carrying Over Nearly Identical Hardware

Samsung launched the Galaxy S26 FE on August 27 at $699, $50 above the S25 FE. The display, camera array, battery, and RAM are unchanged. The only hardware change is a 4nm-to-3nm Exynos shrink. Engadget attributes the increase to the spec bump and the RAM supply crisis. Worth flagging: the FE line's value proposition looks increasingly thin.