Samsung’s first unpacked is of course the most important event ever. It created the atmosphere for most of the smartphone market in the first half of 2025 and introduced Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S25 Ultra for the year. The Galaxy S25 and S25+ were tagged together, which is probably the most praise that we can give them. Oh, and Samsung have teased the Galaxy S50 Edge and while it has about four sides, it has nothing to do with its famous names.
So without any delay, we have hot opinions on the series here.
One UI 7 is great, AI eventually looks attractive
The first half -hour of Samsung’s 1 -hour and 10 minute January 2025 unpacked presentation was about One UI and AI, so it is true that we start with it.
For the first time, Samsung delay its One UI update from late autumn to mid -winter. Looking at the end result, it feels that the delay is meaningful. The new form of Samsung’s UI’s UI seems refreshed and, significantly, fast. And it brings unprecedented features, such as the vertical app drawer – just imagine all the possibilities!
Except for the joke, the new gemini -operated AI looks smart – not just gimmick. Circle to search can now identify phone numbers, emails and URLs for quick action. Multimodal AI agents explain lessons, speeches, images and even videos for natural interaction – for example, you can ask Gemini to find a specific photo in the gallery. The search is the content -sensory content that suggests your next stage – sharing GIF, or saving an event.
Natural language input allows you to control some phone features. For example, you can find your gallery by giving voice and ask AI assistant to take pictures of a particular place. If the font is very small then you can also ask to make it big!
We liked the new design of Galaxy S25 Ultra
The Galaxy S Ultra entered its rectangular phase in early 2022 with the Galaxy S22 Ultra. It was specific and unique, and it was suitable for a pen -equipped phone.
But the new circular shape looks more smart and more importantly, it brings a major improvement in handling. Galaxy S25 Ultra is a large phone and makes it comfortable in hand.
Impressively, Samsung made the display 0.1 inch big, 0.4 mm thin and 14 g lighter, without compromising the internal size like stability or battery!
The best display glass gets even better
The Galaxy S24 was the only phone with anti-reflection display in the Ultra market, despite rumors that other manufacturers will also come up with the same technology. A low-refined display proved amazing for external visibility, as our summer battery test proved.
The Galaxy S25 Ultra could easily sit on that edge, but it brings another better panel – Gorilla Armer 2 retains its anti -reflection coating, but is bright and more durable.
The new 50mp ultravide looks good on paper, but the initial samples are not reliable
Samsung upgraded only the ultravide angle camera on the Galaxy S25 Ultra – Ultra, Plus and other 12 other cameras of Vanilla remained unchanged. The 12MP sensor with f/2.2 optics has gone, a new 50MP imagers with a bright f/1.9 lens. The focal length remains at 120 °.
The high megapixel camera opens 8K video and on paper, ultravide should be produced with more details, while its advanced aperture should be given good shots in low light.
However, we are not seeing it in our first samples. We have two cameras compared to Galaxy S24 Ultra and S25 Ultra (Part 1, Part 2) and we cannot easily say that the new camera is better. It seems that the old one gives more clear photos with more details.
This is a perfectly a theme – the main 200MP camera enjoys the new (and possibly fast) ISP of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip and yet, we are watching faster and more wide images from the old phone.
Galaxy S25 Ultra is the worst ultra in the world in terms of photography
Compare Samsung Ultra with Xiaomi 14 Ultra, Vivo’s X100 Ultra, Huawei’s Pura 70 Ultra, or Oppo Find X7 Ultra and it will come to the final place in overall imaging performance. This is not a good look for the company that invented this segment.
S Pen Dowgrad, really ???
Surprisingly, Samsung removed Bluetooth connectivity from S Pen in Galaxy S25 Ultra. There is also no accelerometer, which means no air activities. S Pen used to be the best remote shutter in the world and now it is just a stylus. Very strange.
Only Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform for Galaxy
Snapdragon 8 Elite, Snapdragon 8 is a big step from 3. “For Galaxy” main 2x Orion V2 Phoenix L. Core, GPU and NPU reflects a slight clock speed. The “original” SD8 runs on the Elite 4.32 GHz, while the Galaxy-Exclusive CPU runs on 4.47 GHz.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
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Fans around the world will be happy that each Galaxy S25 unit worldwide uses this chipset.
Galaxy S25 and S25+ are boring
In addition to the new chipset, the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ are unchanged from their predecessors. They have similar displays, similar batteries, similar charging speeds and similar cameras.
They also did not find anti-reflective displays, new ultravide camera or autofocating ultravide. But hey, the Galaxy S25 now comes with 12GB of RAM just like plus and ultra.
No global version with 16GB RAM
But seriously, only 12 GB of RAM on the Galaxy S25 Ultra looks derogatory. Pixel 9 Pro has 16GB, Xiaomi 14 Ultra has 16GB, while OnePlus 13 has up to 24GB of RAM.
Samsung Galaxy S25
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Yes, technically 16 GB Galaxy S24 is ultra, but you cannot buy it outside Korea, China and Taiwan. Once again, this is not a good look.
Now there is a Galaxy S25 Edge
Samsung teased the Galaxy S25 Edge. Rumor as S25 Slim, Edge revives a series of famous handheld of Samsung. The first was the Galaxy Note Edge with a bent right edge that opened the additional functionality like the edge screen. Others, such as the Galaxy S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, and the Galaxy S7 had two bent edges that looked sharp like a knife at that time.
The newly new Galaxy S25 Edge sounds blunt. It resembles the Galaxy alpha.
Are there many models now?
Now at least one Galaxy S25 model can be very high. If Samsung later brings the Galaxy S25 FE, it will make it even more difficult to navigate the series. We can get ready for a world where the smallest Galaxy S or the middle Galaxy S is unnecessary.
Samsung Galaxy S25+
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