Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review
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- Telling bone
- R5v
- 2 hours ago
-JJ-, 12 Feb 2025iOS / Apple fanboys perspective here --> To anyone t... moreDid you read about the new failed drop test...just wondered 🤔
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- Anonymous
- rK@
- 20 hours ago
i bought it
its feels flimsy
spen downgrade why why why
my suggestion look elsewhere if you need a phone
sami you better get your act together for s26 ultra or you will go nokias way
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- Anonymous
- MFe
- 13 Feb 2025
DeepIn2U, 12 Feb 2025Bruh ... did you ACTUALLY record having a public telephone ... moreIf I'm not mistaken, the city in the photos is Sofia, Bulgaria. And there are no laws there against telephone booths inside houses ;-)
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- Anonymous
- CLt
- 13 Feb 2025
ThunderCrackR, 13 Feb 2025Wtf guys, you removed my comment pointing out the new charg... morelmfao
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- ThunderCrackR
- mrs
- 13 Feb 2025
Wtf guys, you removed my comment pointing out the new charging mode which allows the phone to charge at maximum speed using the 3A cable inside the box and edited the review to say:
"With further testing, we found out"
Not nice.
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- DeepIn2U
- EUk
- 12 Feb 2025
Bruh ... did you ACTUALLY record having a public telephone booth inside your personal or business unit at 7:13 to 7:15mins of the review video?!
Not sure where you live, but MOST cities would've found this illegal EVEN if nobody uses Telephone booths, its property of the city and local telco.
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- Drizzle
- jGf
- 12 Feb 2025
Note7 owner, 30 Jan 2025OnePlus 13 is the clear winner this year! Agreed. OP13 is so much better in so many ways
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- -JJ-
- pVt
- 12 Feb 2025
iOS / Apple fanboys perspective here -->
To anyone thinking about buying s25u I highly recommend going for Titanium JetBlack s25u. Rephrasing the great Jadakiss - all matte black everything, no gloss! MVP! one of the nicest builds ever made! I switched from iPhone 16 pro and couldn't be happier! Reminds me of the Phantom Black s23u, but that one had glossy sides, so this one trumps it! Before going for s25u, was thinking about 16pro Max as I wanted a bigger screen, but 16pro max just feels way too heavy and impossible and difficult to operate as its mid-top heavy vs s25u which just sits perfectly in hand! and the screen of s25u with its anti-reflective filter is just beyond amazing, small camera cut-out makes this a pocketable mini-ipad. AMAZING!
This year is the first time since iPhone 12mini (before having pixel 2,3,4,5 and I was iphone user (12mini, 13mini, 13pro, 14pro, 15pro, 16pro) that I just did not like the stock/default pictures coming out of iphone camera..i just didnt like 6 out of every 10 pics I took. Either standard/gold/amber whatever I just didnt like the photos coming out of it. Before going for Titanium JetBlack s25u, I had s25u Titanium Gray for 24hour testing and with that one I loved pretty much 9.5 out of 10 pictures taken, especially selfie cam and the warm pics coming out of it. Beat my 16pro to pieces, but that just me I guess!
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- xPandamon
- JHj
- 12 Feb 2025
Varyar, 09 Feb 2025I am using s25 Ultra for exactly a week as my daily driver.... moreThe S23 Ultra doesn't even have OneUI 7 yet. Besides, I cannot confirm a bunch of the stuff you wrote. It stays cooler than my old S23 Ultra and in any game I threw at it, performs perfectly, no stutters or overheating whatsoever.
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- EugenM
- sph
- 11 Feb 2025
Samsung is killing Samsung Dex because of S25 Ultra
Is samsung for real? The main advantage of a Samsung phone is that we can finally have proper access to our phones content, screen, apps, etc... through wifi, something that is impossible otherwise!
Why on earth is Samsung killing an awesome and much needed feature like this making it just another android brand with their own boring take on android ui?
Link to Windows is a pathetic joke and does not do 10% of what Samsung Dex uses, for the following reasons:
1) You cannot view your screen in landscape, you cannot even view your screen in portrait without it being a blurry ugly mess for that matter and you are greated with extremely low fps, but what about desktop mode view you ask? Well... let me tell you that is completely gone aswell!
2) You cannot do interactions between your phone and your pc seamelessly without some stupid 100 file limit, Samsung Dex also has a file limit of 10x over that! And let's not forget getting those selected is an incredibly boring and time consuming process, something that is not an issue with Samsung Dex at all click the first, go down to the last you want, shift click that, drag and drop into your PC explorer and wait a few seconds/minutes to copy an entire selection of up to 1000 files! Which brings me to the next point:
3) You cannot use multi select features such as ctrl or shift + click, or ctrl+c or ctrl+v, etc... like you can on Samsung Dex.
4) You cannot copy any single file larger than 512mb! Which means, do you want to backup a video, project or any large file? Tough luck.
4) Phone Link is buggy, it freezes randomly, it's low quality programming and nowhere near Samsung Dex.
How on earth is then Samsung claiming that Link To Windows is a replacement? It's like saying your bicycle is a replacement for your car.
I'm already dissapointed with the SPen downgrade of S25 ultra, extremely dissapointed that they chose to replace an already excelent ultrawide camera with a bigger res but same sensor size giving basicaly no improvement in photos, which is fine by me except we are forgetting the fact that the we desperately needed an upgrade for that horrifying 10mp 3x zoom sensor that upscales any photos to 12mp and is low detail and full of noise even in daylight!
And now this... we are losing important features for the sake of what? This is mind boggling to say the least!
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- DerLuke
- xIj
- 11 Feb 2025
Tiramisu , 11 Feb 2025I went and checked, played with the adjustments in the sett... moreNo, it's not. No one forces you to buy it, they're plenty of other devices out there. Go and buy them, then come to corresponding forums and share your experience and help other users.
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- Tiramisu
- mGu
- 11 Feb 2025
Luke, 06 Feb 2025No, s24u and s25u definitely have different displays. Just ... moreI went and checked, played with the adjustments in the settings, literally the same display,
Brightness, vibrancy, details, etc
Only difference that I saw was that some of the banding on the S24 Ultra was gone in the S25 Ultra. Apart from that there was proscaler and some minor tweaks. That’s all.
Most disappointing release in Samsung’s history.
Ai Ai Ai Ai …..
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- Luke
- AZd
- 11 Feb 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdkSm4GHss
For everyone that wonders what Spen can do in S25U, after it lost the BT support/air actions.
GSMArena should have come with some review like this, but...there you go.
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- NoName
- 6k%
- 10 Feb 2025
It isn't an Ultra if the charging+battery+camera+screen is worse than on Pros from other brands.
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- mtu
- HCb
- 10 Feb 2025
xPandamon, 06 Feb 2025They changed a few things for the S25 Ultra. Better calibra... moreDo you know if the base S25 model also uses this new M13+ panel?
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- Varyar
- mgT
- 09 Feb 2025
Disappointed, 08 Feb 2025I bought the new S25 Ultra.Clearly don't see the reaso... moreI am using s25 Ultra for exactly a week as my daily driver. I don't see any of the issues you have mentioned. Where is it coming from? Have you even used this phone? Its a brilliant phone in my experience.
You are just copy pasting the same message under every post. I feel you have some agenda.
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- mGu
- 09 Feb 2025
Disappointed, 08 Feb 2025I bought the new S25 Ultra.Clearly don't see the reaso... moreThanks for the input, appreciate it.
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- 08 Feb 2025
I bought the new S25 Ultra.Clearly don't see the reason why gsmarena gave this phone a score of 4.5 and at the same time they usually give better phones scores of 4.1/4.2/4.3 ,same applies to the iFruit phones.
With all the problems this overly expensive flagship phone has,i am really disappointed:
1.They went went for 8bit panel instead of a 10bit.
2.The panel has a flickering problem,causing eye fatigue.Already tested by me,my wife, aswell many other people on youtube and over the internet pointing out that problem.
3.Terrible sustained performance and overheating issues. Even on this review you can see the absurd CPU/GPU throttling with the phone losing more than half of its performance,which would have been somehow acceptable if it was a way cheaper phone,but not for one of the most expensive flagships on the market.They can't make up excuses for cutting corners like that.
Now for the ''N'' years of updates.So my wife is still using the S23 Ultra and guess what happened with the new OneUI 7 update.They gimped the CPU/GPU performance plus the battery life.Literally a year-year and a half after buying the most expensive flagship device,they start sabotaging it so you can buy the newest model.That is disgusting,what is the point of stating all those years of updates,when their clear purpose is to ruin your device so you can spend money for the new one.So after reverting back to the OneUI 6 ........."magic' , CPU/GPU is yet again what it used to be,the battery life has also returned to its regular behavior.Many people are complaining on youtube and other media about the exact same issue,pretty strange why gsmarena did not bother to cover that topic so far.
The iFruits are pretty much the same with each and evey update though,ruining the battery life to a point,which is no longer viable for normal usage,forcing you to buy the newest model.
As long as we keep buying each and every gimped and overpriced product,these companies are going to cut corners and force sabotaging updates,so they can sell the newest stuff.Be responsible how you spend your own money and take care.
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- The Impaler
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- 08 Feb 2025
I'd rather not have manufacturers IP69 their phones. It just makes the phone more expensive. And where is the average person encountering water jets? I think even IP68 is a bit far. Unless you're really clumsy around pools or at the beach using your phone while standing in the water (which begs the question why are you using your phone while in the pool/ocean?) IP68 isn't really needed either. IP67 is more than enough for 99% of use cases.
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- vik457
- d%A
- 07 Feb 2025
Bot10Exists, 06 Feb 2025the vivo x200 pro?No, oppo find x8 ultra will have better main cam, ultrawide, front cam, only camera where x200 might have edge is a telephoto and not that huge one because of focal lengths of 2 telephotos and sensor sizes with apertures on x8 ultra. Speakers, vibration motor and screen will be better too on oppo find x8 ultra.