Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE shall be unveiled on August twenty seventh, and past the specs and worth, there is a query price asking that no one has formally answered: will it get Gemini Intelligence? Google’s new agentic suite of AI instruments that’s, up to now, being reserved for the most costly Android telephones.
It issues as a result of the S26 FE is positioned because the reasonably priced model of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S telephone. Samsung’s personal advertising and marketing says the brand new telephone is “purposefully designed to carry many Galaxy S26 experiences from digital camera to AI.”
Does that embrace Gemini Intelligence? As a result of if not, the Galaxy S26 FE launch shall be a transparent line within the sand between the haves and have-nots.
Google And Samsung Silent On Galaxy S26 FE AI instruments
For the uninitiated, Gemini Intelligence is a giant step past the AI options most individuals are used to. It’s not a chatbot you open in an app and sort questions into. It’s an agentic AI, that means it acts in your behalf, throughout your apps, with minimal consumer enter.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Extremely is getting a brand new price range variant, however will it get Gemini Intelligence. (Picture by Joan Cros/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs)
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For instance, you may ask it to ebook a restaurant for Saturday and it’ll search choices, examine your calendar, and make the reservation and pay something that must be paid.
It would ebook live performance tickets, health club courses, fill in advanced kinds together with your particulars by looking your recordsdata for related data, or pull objects out of your Notes right into a buying cart.
On the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 press briefing I requested about which Galaxy telephones would obtain the Gemini Intelligence replace and did not get a concrete response. I adopted up with each Samsung and Google and could not get a solution, so each corporations appear to be guarding that secret intently.
The one strategy to know is to attend for updates and new telephone releases. The following one is the Galaxy S26 FE, which is positioned as a part of the flagship Galaxy S line with flagship-adjacent options. The inclusion or exclusion of Gemini Intelligence will reveal how true that’s.
It does, nonetheless, appear unlikely. Google’s official Gemini Intelligence device requirements web page lists 12GB of RAM because the minimal. The Galaxy S25 FE launched final 12 months with 8GB of RAM. If the S26 FE additionally has 8GB of RAM that may reply the query.
It is doable Samsung releases the Galaxy S26 FE with extra RAM so it might run Google’s jewel-in-the-crown AI toolkit and produce these options to extra individuals. However we’re in the course of a RAM scarcity, so I will not maintain my breath. It is price noting that Google itself lower the bottom Pixel 11’s RAM due to rising prices.
So that might imply certainly one of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S26 telephones will not include an important Android software program launch in years. Possibly it is time for a reputation change?
What This Means For Different Android Telephones Past The Galaxy S26
If the Galaxy S26 FE doesn’t get Gemini Intelligence, it creates a clearer dividing line between Android’s most costly telephones and every thing else.
The Fold 8, Fold 8 Ultra and Flip 8 all launched with Gemini Intelligence. The primary Galaxy S26 sequence will seemingly get the replace sooner or later too. The S26 FE could be the primary Galaxy machine to ship with One UI 9 however with out entry to Samsung’s headline AI function.
That distinction lets Samsung, Google and different producers cost extra for his or her true flagship telephones, even when the additional {dollars} are largely right down to larger element prices. It is no surprise each Samsung and Google marketed Gemini Intelligence so closely earlier than, throughout and after main {hardware} launches.
It additionally implies that shopping for the most costly telephones received’t simply imply a greater digital camera suite or an even bigger display screen, it would additionally imply an actual purposeful distinction. A telephone that books holidays, health club courses and automates your every day duties (if it really works as marketed). That is smart for Google and Samsung when it comes to enterprise, however it additionally means it may be time for a reputation change for the Galaxy S26 FE and its Galaxy S26 AI “experiences.”
