Back when I started testing tech, it felt like the big draw of each new premium phone was its new feature set – eventually that gave way to higher-res cameras, then faster charging, then other hardware specs being the main draw, but the Samsung Galaxy S26 series feels a return to the old way of doing things. Consisting of the Samsung Galaxy S26, S26 Plus and S26 Ultra, the new trio of mobiles feels incredibly familiar – and that’s because they are. The S26 has mostly the same specs as the Galaxy S25, the S26 Plus is barely different to the Galaxy S25 Plus and the Ultra model only has a few changes over the Galaxy S25 Ultra. What’s really new is the myriad new features and tools that Samsung has loaded into its new phones; some of them are AI-labelled ones, following on from the company’s insistence that these be named “AI phones” instead of “smart phones”, but there are plenty of lovely other little tweaks under the hood too.…