Samsung Electronics, a global partner of Street League Skateboarding (SLS) today announced that Galaxy S26 Ultra was used to film live Street League Skateboarding (SLS) competition for the first time when it captured the SLS DTLA Takeover on April 4. Galaxy S26 Ultra’s pro-grade camera redefines the role of mobile devices in sports, delivering a fresh visual experience of skateboarding that reflects the intensity of the sport itself.

Sports broadcasting is evolving, bringing fans closer to the experience by moving cameras closer to the action. Samsung is driving this shift with the Galaxy camera system and its ability to operate at broadcast-level performance through the pairing of connectivity and mobility. Earlier this year, Galaxy flagship device was used to stream Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, where Samsung worked alongside Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) to embed Galaxy devices throughout the venue at one of the world’s largest sports stages. The result was a new layer of visual storytelling, capturing dynamic perspectives that complemented traditional broadcast coverage. These capabilities extended to the Galaxy Unpacked 2026, showcasing its ability to deliver professional-grade video capture and transmission.

Now, Samsung is helping lead this transformation within skateboarding competitions by embedding Galaxy S26 Ultra directly into key course features — including rails, ledges and gaps — across the entire SLS 2026 season, fully scaling the Galaxy POV (point of view) first introduced at the 2026 SLS Sydney stop.

“Mobile innovation is opening new possibilities for how sports are captured and experienced,” said Joshua Cho, Executive Vice President and Head of the Visual Solution Team, Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics. “At Milano Cortina, we demonstrated how Galaxy technology can complement traditional broadcast systems. With Street League Skateboarding, we’re bringing that same approach directly into the course with our newest, most advanced device camera, and using mobile POV to capture skateboarding from entirely new perspectives.”

Embedded throughout the course, the devices provide skater-level perspectives, offering angles that traditional broadcast systems often cannot capture. This footage feeds directly into the live production workflow, enabling near-instant replay and offering viewers a fresh visual experience that reflects the intensity of the sport itself.

From speed to the precision of every landing, skateboarding is defined by details that are often lost from a distance. With mobile cameras placed directly inside the course, Samsung is reimagining how the sport is experienced, bringing fans closer to each mid-air movement, board flip and landing. These new perspectives offer deeper insight into technique, timing and control, while strengthening the connection between fans, the sport and the athlete.

Featuring Samsung’s most advanced mobile imaging system to date, Galaxy S26 Ultra is designed to perform in fast-moving, unpredictable environments, much like the athletes themselves. It delivers professional-grade camera performance and high-quality footage across a wide range of shooting conditions with enhanced stabilization, intelligent processing and the ability to maintain clarity in low-light or high-speed conditions. This allows it to operate alongside conventional cameras while maintaining clarity, stability and detail within spaces traditional broadcast cameras cannot easily access.

The placement of Galaxy S26 Ultra devices follows the rhythm and flow of each run, revealing the style, speed and precision of each trick from within the course itself. Galaxy features also extend the creative possibilities of production. Features such as Super Steady with horizontal lock stabilization help maintain smooth, level footage even during high-speed motion, while Instant Slow-Mo enables detailed replay of tricks as they happen. Together, these capabilities allow production teams to capture skateboarding with greater clarity, stability and proximity — showcasing the precision, style and technical skill behind every movement.

“Skateboarding is reaching more people than ever before, especially as the sport continues to grow on the global stage,” said Brett Clarke, Chief Revenue Officer at Thrill Sports, the parent company of Street League Skateboarding. “Collaborations like the one we have with Samsung help us evolve how the sport is shared with fans while staying true to the creativity and culture that define skateboarding.”

The debut of Galaxy S26 Ultra POV integration at the SLS DTLA Takeover signals where sports broadcasting is heading next. As the SLS Championship Tour continues, Samsung will continue exploring how mobile technology can evolve into versatile broadcast tools. Looking ahead to major global sporting events and the road to Los Angeles 2028, this shift suggests a future in which the boundary between smartphone camera and broadcast camera continues to disappear, bringing fans closer to the action.

About Street League Skateboarding

Since its inception in 2010, Street League Skateboarding (SLS) has propelled street skateboarding from a collection of independent standalone events to a renowned global series. As pioneers of street skateboarding’s premium qualification system and competition format, SLS offers an amateur-to-professional pathway and creates thrilling live events across the globe. The SLS Championship Tour is recognized as the world’s premier professional street skateboarding competition. Events take place on custom-built, one-of-a-kind, SLS-certified plazas in major cities around the world, with the best in the sport competing for the highest stakes. For more information, visit StreetLeague.com.

Samsung Electronics today announced that Galaxy S26 Ultra won Best in Show at the Global Mobile Awards (GLOMO Awards) during Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 held in Barcelona, Spain. The Global Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) holds the GLOMO Awards annually during MWC to recognize outstanding innovations in the mobile industry. The Best in Show category celebrates consumer-focused products that set a benchmark for technology. One of the industry’s highest honors, Best in Show devices are known as the “gold standard” across the digital landscape as judged by more than 200 world-leading independent analysts, journalists and industry veterans.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: Best in Show

At the March 4 awards ceremony, Galaxy S26 Ultra won Best in Show for its seamless blend of advanced hardware and intuitive, proactive One UI 8.5 software. Galaxy AI delivers adaptive, context-aware intelligence that simplifies everyday tasks while safeguarding security and privacy. Together, these advancements bring to life the most intuitive mobile AI designed to anticipate users’ needs.

Galaxy S26 Ultra also introduced the world’s first built-in Privacy Display, a breakthrough in display engineering, that gives users a more private but vibrant viewing experience. Inside, a customized chipset powers faster Galaxy AI, setting a new standard for effortless mobile experiences on Galaxy S26 Ultra.

“This year’s competition was exceptionally strong,” said Shaun Collins, Chair of the Judges for MWC Best in Show 2026. “We look for technology that is not only innovative and compelling, but that genuinely moves the industry forward. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra stood out for pushing the boundaries of mobile technology while delivering meaningful, real-world impact. In particular, its privacy innovation addresses one of the most important needs of today’s digital lifestyle — security, personal space and trust.”

The MWC Best in Show judging panel said that among more than 3,000 exhibitors, the Galaxy S26 Ultra stood out for making forward-looking innovation possible now. “While many technologies showcased at MWC highlight the future,” the panel said, “this is a product consumers can experience today.”

“We are honored that the Galaxy S26 Ultra has been recognized as ‘Best in Show’ at this year’s GLOMO Awards,” said Stephanie Choi, EVP and Head of Mobile Marketing Center, Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics. “The Galaxy S26 Ultra is an agentic AI phone that signifies Samsung’s ongoing commitment to push our industry forward, and this distinction is especially meaningful given the extraordinary innovation showcased at MWC.”

For more information about the Galaxy S26 Ultra, please visit: Samsung Newsroom India and Samsung.com.

JB Park, President & CEO, Samsung Southwest Asia presenting the all-new Galaxy S26 Ultra

Samsung, India’s largest consumer electronics brand, announced that its highly-anticipated Galaxy S26 series is available for pre-order in India starting today. The Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy S26+ and Galaxy S26 deliver the most intuitive and natural Agentic AI mobile experiences ever engineered. From managing plans and finding information to capturing and refining content, the Galaxy S26 series reduces the effort required to get things done, allowing users to focus on results rather than how the technology works.

The Galaxy S26 series is designed with Samsung’s most advanced capabilities working together as one: performance, an intuitive camera system and Galaxy AI. This provides a strong foundation that gives Galaxy S26 users the confidence to depend on their phone throughout the day without compromising security or privacy.

Building on Samsung’s decades of innovation in display technology, Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces the industry’s first built-in Privacy Display for mobile phones, reinforcing Samsung’s commitment to privacy at a pixel level. Galaxy S26 Ultra also delivers a customised chipset and upgraded thermal management that enable faster and more powerful AI — all packed in 7.9mm, the slimmest Ultra yet.

“The Galaxy S26 series is designed to understand how people live and work. It marks a new direction for Samsung with Agentic AI that silently handles routine tasks so you can focus on what truly matters: spending time with family, boosting productivity, and enjoying everyday moments. Our engineers from the Bengaluru and Noida R&D facilities have played a pivotal role in its development, and I am proud to share that the Galaxy S26 series will also be manufactured at our factory in Noida,” said JB Park, President and CEO, Samsung Southwest Asia.

Powerful Performance Designed Around Everyday Use

Engineered for all-day performance, the Galaxy S26 series is built on the most powerful hardware ever on a Galaxy S series, engineered for AI performance, power efficiency and thermal management.

On Galaxy S26 Ultra, a customised mobile processor — Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform for Galaxy — delivers performance gains across CPU, GPU and NPU to support faster, smoother experiences throughout the day. A CPU performance increase of up to 19%, a 39% improvement in NPU performance, and a 24% boost in GPU performance allow users to move between tasks without lag or interruption and boost on-device AI capability

To sustain this level of performance, Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces a redesigned Vapor Chamber with a thermal interface material positioned along the processor, improving heat dissipation to keep the device cool during demanding activities such as gaming, multitasking and video capture. Galaxy S26 Ultra also brings Super-Fast Charging 3.0, reaching up to 75% charge in just 30 minutes.

Embedded into the processor, Samsung’s proprietary ProScaler improves image scaling so photos and videos appear richer and clearer at a glance. Samsung’s mobile Digital Natural Image engine (mDNIe) delivers subtler and more lifelike colours thanks to image processing with four times the precision compared to the previous generation.

Galaxy’s Best Camera System Yet

The Galaxy S26 series integrates content capture, editing and sharing into a seamless experience, making creativity feel natural and accessible without professional tools or technical knowledge.

On Galaxy S26 Ultra, wider camera apertures allow more light to reach the sensor, delivering clearer photos with richer details in low-light conditions. Enhanced Nightography Video keeps footage clearer and more vibrant even in dim scenes, while upgraded Super Steady capabilities make framing easier to achieve, even with bumpy trails or fast-paced activities.

Improvements to the AI ISP now extend to the selfie camera, capturing more natural skin tones and finer detail in mixed lighting. Galaxy S26 Ultra is also the first Galaxy device to support the Advanced Professional Video (APV) standard designed to deliver efficient compression for high-quality production workflows while preserving visually lossless quality even after repeated editing.

Editing photos and videos is streamlined with AI-powered tools so users can make changes quickly without design expertise. With the upgraded Photo Assist suite, users can describe — in their own words — what they want to change; they can add or restore missing parts of images, and even modify outfits in photos. Edits can now be made continuously and adjusted or undone along the way.

Creative Studio brings creation and customisation into one integrated space, enabling users to quickly turn ideas into polished visuals — from stickers and invitations to personalised wallpapers — and share them without interrupting creative flow.

AI-powered tools like Document Scanner remove distortions and distractions such as creases or fingers to deliver clean scans instantly, while multiple images can be organised automatically into a single PDF.

Everyday Ease with Proactive and Adaptive Galaxy AI

The Galaxy S26 series reduces the steps between intent and action by working proactively on the user’s behalf based on context, surfacing the right support at the right moment and automating tasks with minimal manual input.

With Now Nudge, timely and relevant suggestions help users stay in the flow without distraction. Galaxy S26 automatically suggests photos from the Gallery when requested. It recognises Calendar entries when receiving meeting messages and checks for conflicts.

Now Brief becomes more proactive, recommending exercise playlists and surfacing reminders based on personal context. Circle to Search with Google is upgraded with enhanced multi-object recognition so users can explore multiple parts of an image in a single search.

The Galaxy S26 series integrates agents including Bixby, Gemini and Perplexity, enabling tasks to be completed with a single button press or voice prompt. Multi-step actions can be handled in the background, making tasks like booking rides, coordinating actions across apps and controlling device settings easier through natural interaction.

Layers of Protection in the Age of AI

As mobile experiences become more personalised thanks to AI, protecting privacy becomes increasingly critical. Samsung builds protection into every layer of Galaxy S26 while giving users transparency and control over how information is used.

Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces Privacy Display, protecting privacy at the pixel level. By controlling how pixels disperse light, the display keeps content clear for the user while limiting what others can see from side viewing angles.

Users can customise when privacy features turn on — such as when entering PINs and passwords or opening selected apps — and adjust settings depending on the situation. Partial Screen Privacy limits visibility for notification pop-ups, while Maximum Privacy Protection further obscures side views.

AI-powered Call Screening identifies unknown callers and summarises intent, helping users manage calls safely. Privacy Alerts notify users in real time when apps request access to sensitive data so permissions can be managed with clarity and control.

Private Album, built into Gallery, lets users safely hide selected photos and videos. Galaxy S26 also extends post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to critical system processes including software verification and firmware protection. New updates to Knox Matrix further strengthen protection across connected Galaxy devices, adding PQC-enabled end-to-end encryption for direct transfers like eSIM migrations and clearer visibility into firmware update status across the ecosystem through Security Status of Your Devices.

These updates build on Galaxy’s existing security and privacy portfolio which includes Auto Blocker, Theft Protection, Private Sharing, Secure Wi-Fi and more. And with seven generations of OS upgrades and seven years of security updates, Galaxy S26 helps keep these layers resilient over time, supporting longer, more confident use well into the years ahead.

Price and Availability

Pre-order for Galaxy S26 series starts from February 25 across leading online and mainline retailers. Consumers can also pre-order Galaxy S26 series on Samsung Live at www.samsung.com/in/live-offers/ starting today. The Galaxy S26 series features a unified design language across all models, with shared colour options: Cobalt Violet, White, Black and Sky Blue, alongside the Samsung.com exclusive Pink Gold and Silver Shadow.

For more information about the Galaxy S26 series, please visit: Samsung.com

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