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iPhone 17 Pro Max vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: who wins in ultra-premium phones?

Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max and Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S26 Ultra are competing head-to-head in the ultra-premium smartphone market. Both have 6.9-inch OLED displays, AI features and high-end chipsets, but they differ in focus. TechRadar said Samsung stands out for functionality and flexibility, while Apple has strengths in performance optimisation and ecosystem integration. The phones differ on pricing, design, display, camera systems, performance, and charging speed.

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Testing Galaxy S26 Ultra AI with no cloud, only the chip

The agentic AI era is approaching, with AI moving into smartphone chips so tasks can be handled without sending personal data to external data centres. A 72-hour test used a Galaxy S26 Ultra locked in airplane mode to gauge how well the Snapdragon 8 Elite 5th generation NPU, QMX and GPU handled daily, business-trip and weekend scenarios. Simple and multi-step AI tasks produced minimal heat, while video codec workloads raised temperatures the most.

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Rumours swirl over super-premium flagship smartphone from China, with steep price expected

A next-generation super-premium flagship smartphone may be in testing, focusing on top-tier silicon and memory specifications, PhoneArena reported, citing tipster Digital Chat Station. The device is said to feature 16GB LPDDR6 RAM, 1TB UFS 5.0 storage and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 6th Gen Pro chipset. Estimated component costs could lift the bill of materials above $800, with a possible consumer price of $1,700 or more, it said.