Samsung announces a mid-range Galaxy S26 FE for $699

Samsung's mid-range Galaxy phone is back.The Korean tech giant announced on Thursday that the Galaxy S26 FE will launch on Sept. 3 for a starting price of $699. That's $50 more than the Galaxy S25 FE was priced at a year ago, but such is the way of things these days. More importantly, it costs a lot less than the $1,099 base-model Galaxy S26 that launched earlier this year, despite coming with many of the same AI features. I got to demo the new phone at a recent impressions, and my first impress