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- Samsung is allegedly thinking of bringing a silicon-carbon battery in the Galaxy S26 series.
- The first Chinese brands will come about two years after adopting technology.
- Silicon-carbon batteries enable more capacity without this increase in physical size.
Most Chinese smartphone brands have adopted their silicon-carbon battery Best Android PhoneOpening the door for increased capacity. Samsung remembered this technique Galaxy S25 SeriesBut now it seems that we can see it in the Galaxy S26 range.
Korean outlet FNN News Considering Samsung Silicon-carbon battery For the Galaxy S26 series. An anonymous official of Samsung also said that if Samsung uses this technology, the battery capacity of these phones will increase. This will be a relief as Samsung’s three Galaxy S phones have long offered a battery of 4,000mAh to 5,000mAh.
“If silicon anode material is used, the capacity will increase, but will be a lifetime issue, so it would require improvement,” the officer was quoted saying. “This has not been confirmed, but we are studying various methods to improve it.”
The outlet also claims that Samsung has gone away from the major battery upgradation in its phone because its high production volume means that in the event of the defect, “problems of product stability can be severe”.
Chinese rivals next to the pack
This will not be the first time we would have heard of the Galaxy S26 family that offers the silicon-carbon battery. Major leakers First made these claims Last month. But this new report definitely adds overweight to these claims.
The silicon-carbon battery enables more capacity to the same size as a traditional lithium-ion battery, with the Honor Magic 5 supporters with this technique. As a result, the phone with huge battery OnePlus 13 (6,000mAh), Vivo X200 Pro (6,000mAh), and Redmaizic 10 Pro (7,050mAh). This battery technique allows brands to shrink the physical size of its phone battery, while still maintains the same capacity, enables slimmer design or freeing the space for other upgrade.
What is worth it, OnePlus and Oppo claim that their recent phones with silicon-carbon batteries will fall to 80% effective capacity after an impressive 1,600 charging cycles. Apple Claim Its recent iPhones (using lithium-ion batteries) have been rated for 80% capacity after 1,000 charging cycles, while Samsung has not released the charging cycle information for its phone in recent years.
