Trevor Long

See, you know why no one really talks about them?

Because Samsung don't offer them to us to review.

Like if I wanted to review a Galaxy S26, I'm going to go and buy one.

Now, they don't sell them in the same numbers as they do the Ultra.

I get that.

But also people don't talk about them enough because they don't push it.

They push the big one.

They push the expensive one because it's better on a plan and there's bigger margins.

The standard S26 or S26 Plus –

Great phone.

Even when they bring out the FE edition, like the S25 FE, what they call the fan edition, mate, they're great phones.

Great screen, same software, all those cool features, more features than you've currently got because that's a couple of years old, that phone.

So if you can bring yourself to go, you know what, I'm going to be smart on my budget.

It is an annoying thing because I've normally just, you know, gotten this cool phone every year on these plans, but you now know why because they drive the plans up and they sucker people in to stay with them.

So as much as it's a grind, I think, you know, downgrading yourself to a different phone when that one gives itself up, like push that one until the end.

But remember, $25 a month.

That's what you're going to be paying for the mobile plan.

So the other $40 a month that you were going to have to pay, or let's just call it $30 a month, you know, that's the money you've got to spend on a phone.

And by the way, remember, you were paying $60 a month plus the device repayments.

How much are you spending a month on the device?