Gear News of the Week: Samsung Sets a Date for Galaxy Unpacked, and Fitbit’s AI Coach Comes to iOS

Samsung volition unveil its adjacent flagship smartphone lineup connected February 25 astatine its Galaxy Unpacked lawsuit successful San Francisco. The institution sent retired invites earlier this week. The lawsuit volition statesman astatine 10 americium Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern), and it'll beryllium livestreamed here.

Rumors abound that suggest the Galaxy S26 series—which volition see the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra—won't person immoderate large changes from their predecessors. They'll apt beryllium powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, with immoderate insignificant charging velocity improvements and insignificant upgrades to the camera hardware.

Artificial quality features volition apt beryllium astatine the forefront, apt with a fewer caller Gemini tricks. However, 1 large caller diagnostic is simply a privateness surface built into the smartphone itself. It'll fto you selectively artifact parts of the show from radical astir you. Unfortunately, adjacent with lone insignificant upgrades, determination whitethorn beryllium a terms summation for these phones stemming from the RAM shortage. As usual, Samsung is letting you reserve a Galaxy S26 instrumentality close now. You'll get a $30 recognition to usage erstwhile preorders unfastened up, and a accidental to triumph a $5,000 acquisition paper astatine Samsung.com.

Don't expect to spot a Galaxy S26 Edge. Samsung's super-slim Edge telephone from 2025 wasn't a hit, and leaks suggest a successor has been canceled. Still, the Edge debuted successful May 2025, truthful we could inactive spot a follow-up astir then. All we cognize is that it apt won't marque a showing astatine this Unpacked event. Samsung usually announces different products extracurricular of smartphones, and this year, that whitethorn beryllium a caller brace of Galaxy Buds wireless earbuds.

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Fitbit’s Personal Health Coach Arrives connected iOS

Months aft Fitbit’s Personal Health Coach launched successful nationalist preview for Android users, the Gemini-powered wellness work is present yet disposable to iOS users. To effort it out, you indispensable person an progressive paid oregon proceedings Fitbit Premium subscription and a telephone that runs iOS 16.4 oregon higher. (You tin cheque retired the afloat database of requirements here.) Personal Health Coach is besides expanding to English speakers successful different countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.

As I mentioned successful my preview of the service, I would beryllium wary of divulging excessively overmuch idiosyncratic wellness accusation to a ample corporation, adjacent 1 that promises not to usage it for advertising. I besides recovered that it’s casual to commencement consulting with the Coach for proposal connected each portion of your day, which your IRL household and friends volition find weird and annoying. However, it is the easiest, astir helpful, and astir accommodating of the AI manager services that I’ve tried truthful far, and $10/month for Fitbit Premium is cheaper than a existent moving coach. As always, your mileage (literally) whitethorn vary. —Adrienne So

iOS 26.3 Makes It Easy to Switch to Android

Apple released iOS 26.3 this week for the iPhone, and the blistery caller diagnostic mightiness astonishment you. The institution is making it easier to power to Android phones, acknowledgment to a collaboration with Google, which besides precocious added a akin diagnostic for switching from Android to iPhone.