Samsung Galaxy S25 price hike seemingly confirmed by a new report

14 January 2025
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Blame USA based Qualcomm for over charging their clients with their modem chip and SoC with every year! There must be a replacement for Qualcomm in Android World. People are tired of price hikes!

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    • 1 hour ago

    Boy, 11 hours ago"Hey, we have ONEUI! So it does make sense for the pri... moreAn UX of Android means a Skin, its value is less or zero. Now consider having a blockchain of it then we are talking as you either have exclusive rights or you really are one of the owners. So what has value, May be Marvel Character, I can see many use case for any Scarlet Witch, pun intended off course. But the game has only 32 character, thats the maximum possible with the best x86 and so applies to the best of ARM as well. each month they are adding about 5 characters meaning next year their would be double the least. 64 characters, a game like vice city will have upto 2000 possible characters maximum, War Thunder has as many vehicles, Asphalt 9 got 400 only but many more combinations. So all in all the max characters is about an average 50, their are many games who show similar number of them, most of em never increase the number as they dont have players you want popular Configurations to be actually be able to call yours blockchain. And their are these folks, who keep lying, it also increase value of software's but not by much, So your characters needs to be playable, or its not valuable. So first pick the franchise then the tools, may it be hardware or software.

    Link of an ideal Online game capability if your software doesn't do most of it, IT WONT MAKE IT and be any blockcain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjXr9Nj5ZbI&ab_channel=Biggieboy1982

      mid and late 2010s phone was a peak 🔥🔥

      but early 2020s phone is 🤡🤡

      I still don't get why almost all new flagship phones in this year has to raise prices due to economy bad turn.


      If this cases again, I will return back to Nokia golden-age N95

        Greed & Bottom Line.

        They raised the price because they wanted to.

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          • Aszi
          • I@H
          • 8 hours ago

          Whenever a phone comes out, the price is always much higher than its predecessor. What's new? Fooling customers?

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            • ILi
            • 9 hours ago

            More OEMs copy Samsung than the other way around. When Samsung went for OLED, bigger displays, and stylus, it's because they followed/copied Samsung. When Chinese OEMs, Motorola. and Google decided to release a foldable, it's because they followed/copied Samsung.

            Without Samsung, Android would've lost to iOS over 15 years ago. Without Galaxy, Android would've never got traction like it did. Other OEMs like LG or HTC are not big enough to keep Android at the front. They don't have the finances and infrastructure to pull it off. Samsung does it all.

            Go ahead and hate on Scamsung. They're better than that rotten fruit company in Cupertino and all these Chinese copycats. And Samsung nevers gets political like woke Apple, Google, and Sony all do. Remember the BLM stuff on the PS5? Sony got caught for being woke thanks to owning Hollywood studios.

            Loving this S23! Two years old and still flies. Kept it on the default One UI launcher as it's more buttery smooth than on Nova 7. Will be perfect next to my Z Flip 3 and S9. Now I just need a $500 refurb Pixel Fold from Amazon and I should be good to go for the next 5 years again.

            Half of my dozen phones are retired. Used some of them beyond 3 years. Looking like I will be sticking to Samsung and Google mostly these next 5 years. Not an Apple fan except for macOS.

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              • Boy
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              • 11 hours ago

              "Hey, we have ONEUI! So it does make sense for the price hike"

                SKG, 16 hours agoS25 Ultra looks like average Chinese flagship now. Chinese flagship looks better, and I'm a S23 Ultra user...

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                  • IL8
                  • 11 hours ago

                  ithehappy, 15 hours agoMost hilarious. Samsung thinks they can compete with apple ... moreDid you read the article? This was expected because Qualcomm charges $190 to OEMs to use their Snapdragon 8 Elite. If you want Samsung to keep using Snapdragon flagship SoCs, price will go up because Qualcomm keeps charging OEMs more..

                  Gimme me a break with this Samsung vs. iPhone debate that these insecure fanboys keeps harping about in their immature little brains. Apple has made good iPhone in the last 10 years. That's the iPhone X. I owned it and 12 mini. While Samsung has made what again? Several legendary Notes and S class. Z Flips and Folds. Their portfolio us far deeper than Apple and Xiaomi..

                  I'm getting a free S9 from AirTalk because I have a lifeline thanks to my EBT and Medicaid. I just bought a second hand S23 the other day for $150 and it's the fastest phone I've ever used. That Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 still flies after 2 years. It seems Samsung phones are dependent on a Snapdragon and TSMC for it to be great. Not their own Exynos/Tensor and their own foundries...

                  I used to HATE Samsung. But now they're becoming my favorite because I hate how Google uses Exynos and how Apple lacks the range and versatility that Samsung brings. I own 11 phones and 3 of them are Samsungs. I think I will stick to Samsung and Sony moving forward.

                  Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 (personal phone, still good after 3.5 years)
                  Samsung Galaxy S23 (work phone, best phone I've ever owned)
                  Samsung Galaxy S9 (will be sent to me for FREE in a week)

                  Motorola Razr 5G (previous work phone, retiring it)
                  Google Pixel 3 (my 3rd favorite phone of all-time, retired)
                  Apple iPhone SE 2022 (still an iPhone I use daily to browse)
                  Apple iPhone 2016 (greatest small phone of all-time, not Z1C)
                  Sony Xperia XZ2 (my first Xperia, still has great battery)
                  Essential PH-1 (used mostly to store porn, still solid)
                  Xiaomi Mi 3 (oldest phone I own approaching 11 years, still turns on).
                  Server King 9000 (tiny little phone to watch shows)
                  LG G5 (still solid, use it for Pluto TV and TG remote)

                  I've owned around 50-60 different phones from like 20+ different brands. Hate Scamsung all you want because you prefer Sony, a Chinese brand like Xiaomi or Vivo, you miss old Nokia, BlackBerry, LG and HTC, or you love your precious and boring iPhone so much
                  Samsung ranks among the elite for phone makers. They will never go away. Neither will iPhone.

                  So only Apple is allowed to raise prices and not Samsung after they gave us so many legendary phones?

                  Galaxy S1 through S24 (S7 edge, S8, S9, and S23 are standouts)
                  Galaxy Note 1-5 (skip 7), 8-10, 20-21
                  Galaxy Ultra S21-S24
                  Galaxy Z Fold 1-6
                  Galaxy Z Flip 1-6

                  Samsung is practically the GOAT of smartphone manufacturers. They do their stuff mostly in-house. It's Apple and the Chinese that copies Samsung by using their chips, OLEDs, and folding displays

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                    • pdX
                    • 12 hours ago

                    I was Samsung user (but not a fanboy - too old for that nonsense) for many years. Since S4 if I'm not mistaken. But Samsung starts to seriously dissappoint with recycling old stuff for more money. I've sold my S23U expecting S25U to be WOW, but it's the same s**t. And now they add more bloatware called AI. I'd better put my money to the brand that has more value. I'm very seriously considering iphone.

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                      • 12 hours ago

                      I guess Samsung is falling for the same crap all tech companies are nowadays. The run for more profit, the stakeholders are very thirsty and they want more money. So what Samsung has to do is to just freaking iterate the same thing over and over again, put a new chipset in it, raise the nits a bit and boom, a new generation. Frankly, I wouldn't have a problem with that if we would be talking about apple, but Samsung...they were innovating man. Cameras, displays, batteries, all kinds of ingenious stuff they did until the s20. And then after s20 everything went downhill. S21 is just a joke. S22 is the same joke with some fixes. S23 is really fixing the s21 for good. S24 is just optimization of s23, but barely noticeable. And now...s25 is kind of the same as s24. They probably poured the entire budget into ai crap. Frankly I would like to upgrade my s20 but I see no reason.

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                        • 13 hours ago

                        Wow, not only are they literally copy pasting s24, but they expect people to pay more? Hahahahahahaha

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                          • 13 hours ago

                          FredrickX, 16 hours agono innovation + charge extra = SamsungCharger is extra too.

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                            • L1w
                            • 13 hours ago

                            Bye Bye Samsung galaxy

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                              • Anonymous
                              • B}K
                              • 13 hours ago

                              Given the prices in a previous article for the EU, guess I'm not replacing my S21 FE this year as I was hoping.

                                They are already overpriced and have been for a few years now! Raising prices? LOL

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                                  • 13 hours ago

                                  Enough with Samesung news. Just release the phones then we'll find out what the true specs are and the pricing.

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                                    • 14 hours ago

                                    Anonymous, 14 hours agoIf one is determined to buy a samesung, their A55 went for ... moreLucky for those Galaxy A55 buyer, getting half price for a pretty good midrange.

                                    Is this some sort of good news?

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                                      • 14 hours ago

                                      Kopatator , 16 hours agoFirst ever Samsung phone was s10e. I loved it and I hated i... moreIf one is determined to buy a samesung, their A55 went for nearly half the srp just two months after launch in used markets. Don't know if the same happens to S series but what happened to the A55 is just funny.

                                        I'll just watch the presentation to count how many times they mention the word AI... hahaha I bet it will be no less than 50 times, how many times do you bet they will say that word?

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