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Samsung raises Galaxy S26 smartphone prices globally

Rank
Ran
40h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
11
Regions
4
Countries
10
Languages
7

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CNA Singapore · English 1 Oct, 09:45 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Nederlands (2) · Português (1) · Українська (1) · العربية (1) · فارسی (1) · 中文 (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 40 hours.

5 10 15
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Liberty Times, 1 Oct, 01:45 UTC.
  2. Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Asharq Al-Awsat.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 09:45 UTC.
  5. Last article: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

41 of 41 hours

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The 10 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

18%28%27%27%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 18%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 28%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 27%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 27%

First movers

  1. Liberty Times 1 Oct, 01:45 UTC
  2. CNA +8h
  3. Asharq Al-Awsat +8h 19m
  4. Estadão +10h 6m
  5. Bloomberg +12h 5m

Last to join

  1. Het Laatste Nieuws 2 Oct, 17:55 UTC
  2. Asharq News 2 Oct, 12:10 UTC
  3. Unian 2 Oct, 10:10 UTC
  4. NU.nl 2 Oct, 08:54 UTC
  5. Khabar Online 2 Oct, 07:50 UTC

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 10 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 1 state-owned, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 3: Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan. Europe 3: Belgium, Netherlands, Ukraine. Middle East 2: Iran, Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Persian, Dutch, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Liberty Times, 1 Oct 2026, 01:45 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 01:50 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Samsung bất ngờ tăng giá hàng loạt điện thoại Galaxy giá rẻ tại Mỹ; Türkiye'de çok satan telefon devinden zam fırtınası: Fiyatlar artık iPhone ile yarışıyor. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
2 Oct 2026 136 8.18 11 10 6 6 4.0

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Started 1 Oct, 01:50 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 17:55 UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States 1 Oct, 13:49 UTC
    Samsung Raises Prices of Most Galaxy S26 Smartphones by $100
  • Estadão Brazil 1 Oct, 11:51 UTC
    Galaxy S26, S26+ e S26 Ultra ficam até R$ 1,3 mil mais caros no Brasil

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • The Korea Herald South Korea 2 Oct, 05:43 UTC
    Galaxy S27 prices could rise more than planned after S26 price increase
  • CNA Singapore 1 Oct, 09:45 UTC
    Samsung Electronics raises Galaxy S26 smartphone prices, Yonhap reports
  • Liberty Times Taiwan 1 Oct, 01:45 UTC
    三星手機大漲價!S26系列最高貴8千元 A系列再漲一波

Europe 3 outlets

  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 2 Oct, 17:55 UTC
    Samsung verhoogt prijzen van Galaxy S26-smartphones met minstens 100 euro
  • Unian Ukraine 2 Oct, 10:10 UTC
    Samsung раптово підвищила ціни на Galaxy S26 – деякі версії подорожчали на €200
  • NU.nl Netherlands 2 Oct, 08:54 UTC
    Samsung verhoogt prijzen Galaxy S26-telefoons met 100 tot 200 euro

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia 2 Oct, 12:10 UTC
    سامسونج ترفع أسعار سلسلة جلاكسي S26 بعد 7 أشهر من طرحها
  • Khabar Online Iran 2 Oct, 07:50 UTC
    قیمت گلکسی S26 رسماً افزایش یافت / مدل ۱ ترابایتی ۲۰۰ دلار گران‌تر شد
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 1 Oct, 10:04 UTC
    Samsung Electronics Reportedly Raises Galaxy S26 Smartphone Prices
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