Samsung Galaxy S25 series hot take

26 January 2025
A new-look Ultra, same old S25/S25+, and now an Edge.

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Demon Slayer, 26 Jan 2025Why would i want a quad curved screen? Why would i want a c... morefar superior experience for gestures. And it's a quad micro-curved screen, basically has the pros of a flat screen with no apparent cons of curved screens. The main issue most people had was the inability to install glass protectors and now you can easily slap one on.

    Narazumono, 26 Jan 2025I still wanna know why the hell did they add those black ci... morethey did that on the Z Fold6 and i thought at first it was only gonna be a z fold thing, but ig they want to add a "signature look" to their phones now.

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      PeterThePanda, 26 Jan 2025Lol. This should be a cold take because this phone is basic... moreUsing your logic, then any chinese flagship is also gen 3 or gen 4 of flagship from 4 years ago, because all the phone has the exact same phone design with generic ugly big circle camera island.

        >S series hot take on gsmarena

        "haha it's gonna be generic"

        >sees it's written by Ivan

        "ABSOLUTE CINEMA."

          Hot take- this is the worst S series launch samsung has ever done (I'm a samsung fanboy btw, my first was a S2). I think sales are going to tank year on year, in the UK on Samsung's website they are already offering freebies for positive reviews lol, people really need to vote with their wallets and send Samsung a message that we won't accept zero innovation for the price of a used car. Gimped S-pen, worst cameras on an Ultra, same battery and poor charging. Seriously guys, if you need a new phone go mid range for a year, send them a message. Then if they hopefully release a good upgrade for the s26 range, sell that mid range phone and upgrade then. Just my opinion anyway

            I agree with all the takes here
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              Anonymous, 26 Jan 2025In India atleast, the s25+ makes no sense coz you can get a... moreWhy would i want a quad curved screen? Why would i want a curved screen in the first place let alone a quad one?

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                Anonymous, 26 Jan 2025In India atleast, the s25+ makes no sense coz you can get a... moreBegone the curved screen. Good riddance

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                  • Anonymous
                  • fCE
                  • 26 Jan 2025

                  Most boring flagships of the year 🥱

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                    • 26 Jan 2025

                    Tester, 26 Jan 2025design is downgrade The Ultra series became similar to the... moreAgreed

                    The Ultra just looks like a more square + model :(

                      Luke, 26 Jan 2025Yeah,yeah, we take it that GSMArena review isn't ready... moreI agree on this.

                      They have quite the number of phones with only 'hands on review' and then the s25 series are released and someone won't hear word cause they're just spamming articles of the s25 series.
                      So boring.

                        I still wanna know why the hell did they add those black circles around the cameras and ruin the look of their phones
                        All they did was make the phones look like cheap, the S25 series looks like a fake version of the S24
                        Is this some kind of weird Korean aesthetic we westerners don't understand or is it simply a marketing trick to make people believe the cameras improved while they're the same cameras from last year

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 26 Jan 2025

                          In India atleast, the s25+ makes no sense coz you can get a vivo x200 pro at that price with a quad curved screen and a much much better camera with a periscope telephoto

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                            • QS1
                            • 26 Jan 2025

                            Just post the review already

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                              • SHp
                              • 26 Jan 2025

                              That's not a hot take, everyone knows these phones are mid. Except the tech illiterate and fanboy, of course.

                                design is downgrade
                                The Ultra series became similar to the rest of the models and lost the premium design

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                                  • 26 Jan 2025

                                  One of the worst upgrades in Samsung history!
                                  Samsung apparently never misses an opportunity to screw things up, while everyone agrees that the 3x zoom camera is a piece of obsolete junk that is of worse quality even compared to midrange phones, Samsung in all its wisdom replaces.... the already great ultrawide cam!

                                  Well done Samsung, well done 👏

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                                    • 26 Jan 2025

                                    Yeah,yeah, we take it that GSMArena review isn't ready and you have to post 1000 articles per day to keep people's attention , but .... you can use that time to adjust and write about your battery tests for example. Seems like they start to look unrealistic, provided YouTube reviews film real usage for 8-10h while recording.. and results are not so close to yours.

                                      Lol. This should be a cold take because this phone is basically the S22 Ultra (Gen 3) with very minor changes aside from the SoC upgrade and downgrade in some aspects. 🤭🤭🤭