Every phone we expect to reach UK shops in the months ahead, with the launch date each one is currently pointing at. The list is deliberately short: a handset only earns a place here once there is a confirmed announcement, a retail listing, or leaked material credible enough that we would stake our own reporting on it. Concept renders and single-source posts do not qualify.
Autumn 2026 has been the busiest launch season in years, and most of it has now happened. Google's Pixel 11 family went on sale on 20 August, Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip8 and Z Fold8 on 7 August and the Galaxy S26 FE on 4 September, Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max on 18 September, and Motorola's Edge 70 Plus on 23 September. Still to come: the iPhone Duo on 23 October, Oppo's Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max after their global launch on 21 October, and Honor's Magic9 Pro Max in January. Spring 2027 then brings the Galaxy S27 family, the standard iPhone 18 and the iPhone 18e, the Pixel 11a and Samsung's Galaxy A58.
Each phone joins our live deal comparison the moment UK retailers list it, so a card on this page turns into a price comparison rather than a rumour round-up, usually within a day of pre-orders opening. If you are deciding whether to buy now or wait, the release dates are the number that matters: contract prices on the outgoing model typically fall hardest in the fortnight after its replacement lands.
How we decide what counts as upcoming
A phone needs to clear three tests before it appears here. It has to be genuinely unreleased in the UK, it has to have a credible expected date rather than an open-ended 'later this year', and it has to be a handset UK retailers and networks will actually stock. That last test is why some autumn launches are missing: Xiaomi has said the 18 Pro series goes global before the end of 2026, but it has not named the UK or a date, and Vivo's X500 series reaches Europe on 27 October without a confirmed UK launch. OnePlus stopped launching phones in Europe altogether in July 2026, so the OnePlus 16 will not appear here at all.
Expected dates come from three sources, in descending order of confidence. Official announcements are best: Apple has fixed 23 October for the iPhone Duo, so that card shows the day. Retail and carrier listings come next, since pricing and stock records tend to surface days before launch and are rarely wrong. Supply-chain leaks come last, and where those are all we have, the card shows a month rather than a day, in orange rather than green, so you can tell whose date it is.
Where a phone's name is not settled we use the term people are actually searching for, and we move the page when the manufacturer decides. Apple's foldable was listed here as the iPhone Fold for seven weeks; Apple called it the iPhone Duo on 9 September, the page moved and the old address redirects. The Galaxy S27 Pro is the current example of a name we are using before Samsung has said it out loud: it comes from a regulatory database entry, which is as good as unofficial evidence gets.
Specifications on unannounced phones are leaks, and we label them as such throughout. Display sizes, chipsets and battery capacities firm up in the weeks before launch as regulatory filings and retail listings appear, but camera details and pricing are frequently wrong until the day of the announcement. We replace every leaked figure with the manufacturer's own specification within hours of launch, and we keep a note of what the rumours got wrong on each phone's page.
Nothing on this page is a pre-order. We do not take payment, and we do not link to pre-order pages before a phone is officially announced. Once UK retailers list a phone for sale, it moves out of this page and into the main comparison, where you can see every contract, upgrade and SIM-free price side by side. A phone that is on sale only through its maker's own store leaves too, even if none of the retailers we compare carries it yet: the Motorola Edge 70 Plus is that case, sold since 23 September through Motorola's UK store.