If the Galaxy S26 and S26+ price hikes have you reconsidering your upgrade, Samsung has a slightly less painful option. The Galaxy S26 FE brings an Exynos 2500 chip, a 120 Hz AMOLED display, upgraded camera tricks, 45 W charging, and seven years of software support.
Apple’s first foldable may have stolen the keynote, but the iPhone 18 Pro models brought a hardware trick photographers have waited years to see: a genuinely variable camera aperture. Add the A20 Pro chip, redesigned cooling, longer battery life, and new photo-authenticity tools, and the annual upgrade suddenly looks far less routine.
Apple has entered the foldable-phone race with the iPhone Duo, pairing a pocketable 5.4-inch cover screen with a 7.6-inch inner display, A20 Pro power, and iOS 27 multitasking. The hardware sounds formidable, but Apple’s careful wording about the crease—and silence on fold endurance—leaves two important questions unanswered.
Motorola has a new gadget for your pocket, another for your wrist, and one for the nightstand. Its IFA 2026 haul includes a 200-megapixel Edge 70 Plus, an LTE-equipped Moto Watch Ultra with Polar fitness tracking, and a magnetic Moto Snap charger capable of delivering up to 30W.
Motorola has returned to the Swarovski drawer, dressing its 2026 Razr in a dark Pantone Meteorite finish, 35 hand-positioned crystals, and a larger 32-facet crystal on the hinge. Beneath all that sparkle is a proper foldable smartphone with dual 50MP cameras, two displays, and over 36 hours of claimed battery life.
Battery anxiety usually ends with a charger in your pocket. Motorola has another solution: put a 7,100mAh battery inside the phone. The Edge 70 Max pairs that serious endurance with flagship Snapdragon power, a 144Hz Quad HD+ display, and Qi2 magnetic charging, without turning the handset into a pocket-size brick.
TECNO’s Lamborghini-branded concept has become a real phone, pairing black-and-red Italian drama with a 144Hz AMOLED display, dedicated graphics chip, and huge 6,500mAh battery. At 7.39 mm thin, the POVA 8 Pro also proves performance phones need not resemble power banks.
Skinny phones usually arrive with equally skinny batteries, but the TECNO CAMON Slim 5G refuses to cooperate. Its 6.39mm body holds a 6,000mAh battery, a 144Hz AMOLED display, and a 50MP Sony camera, then adds IP69K protection and MIL-STD-810 durability for good measure.
Xiaomi’s 18 Fold pairs an unusually wide folding design with uncompromised flagship hardware. Its 7.58-inch inner display is joined by Xiaomi’s XRING O3 processor, a 200MP Leica triple-camera system, and a 6,000mAh battery.
Huawei’s second-generation Mate XT 2 unfolds from a 6.5-inch phone into a 10.2-inch tablet. The tri-fold packs a Kirin 9050 Pro processor, three flagship rear cameras, ECG analysis, and a 5,600mAh battery.
After years of increasingly tall, narrow phones, Huawei is pushing in the other direction. Its partially revealed Pura X View pairs a broad 16:9.5 display with a 6.68 mm body and 7,000mAh battery ahead of a full September unveiling.