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I've just spent a day with Samsung's nextG Galaxy S26 Ultra, their flagship phone for this year. And honestly, it feels like a very mixed bag. There's a few things that I was really excited for that are actually quite underwhelming in person. But then also some things that I did not see coming that have ended up as the real highlights. Like one thing that I could not wait to get my mits on is this new privacy display that stops people snooping on you. But actually using it, I've got concerns. So there are two types of pixels on this S26 Ultra's display. normal pixels that shine widely. This is why you can still read the screen from almost any angle. But then mixed into that are new narrow pixels which basically focus their light directly outwards in a straight line instead of shining in a wide cone. Which means if we pull down quick settings and tap privacy display, this lets us turn off our normal wfiring pixels, leaving only the narrow ones on, turning this into a display that's only readable when you're looking at it head-on. And what makes this different from just sticking on one of those privacy glass screen protectors is you can then select exactly what this privacy effect is applied to. You can decide, for example, that you only want to turn it on when you enter your messaging apps like WhatsApp. And it does work. Privacy mode kicks in fast. You can make it activate just when you're entering passwords or pins. And because it's being controlled on an individual pixel level, you can even have this privacy only apply to sections of the screen. Like if you just wanted to hide the notifications that pop up when people message you. So, this is useful, right? Uh, this almost feels a little bit like magic when you're seeing it for the first time. And really, it's one of the first truly innovative phone features that I've seen in a long time. But you might be wondering, cuz this is what I was wondering when it was being first explained to me, why bother then just blacking out that little notification pop-up? Why not just do the whole screen? In fact, why not just keep privacy mode on as your new default and then just turn it off on the odd occasion that you want to show someone something? Well,