{"id":1039269,"date":"2026-09-29T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039269"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:51:01","slug":"samsung-adds-a-festive-season-sting-hikes-galaxy-s26-prices-by-up-to-17-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/samsung-adds-a-festive-season-sting-hikes-galaxy-s26-prices-by-up-to-17-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung adds a festive-season sting, hikes Galaxy S26 prices by up to 17% in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has raised prices of its flagship Galaxy S26 smartphone range in India by up to 17%, with the 256 GB base model now priced at Rs 1,02,999, PTI reported on Monday, citing industry sources tracking the mobile phone market.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy S26 256 GB variant was launched at Rs 87,999 in January, making the latest price Rs 15,000, or about 17%, higher than its launch price.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy S26 series was itself launched at prices 8-15% higher than the preceding Galaxy S25 range. At launch, the Galaxy S26 Ultra started at Rs 1,39,999, while the Galaxy S26+ was priced from Rs 1,19,999 and the base S26 from Rs 87,999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has raised prices of its flagship Galaxy S26 smartphone range in India by up to 17%, with the 256 GB base model now priced at Rs 1,02,999, PTI reported on Monday, citing industry sources tracking the mobile phone market. The Galaxy S26 256 GB variant was launched at Rs 87,999 in January, making the latest price Rs 15,000, or about 17%, higher than its launch price. The Galaxy S26 series was itself launched at prices 8-15% higher than the preceding Galaxy S25 range. At launch, the Galaxy S26 Ultra started at Rs 1,39,999, while the Galaxy S26+ was priced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039290,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039269\/revisions\/1039290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}