Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review

30 January 2025


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Pumpino, 31 Jan 2025"Everyone"? 6,000mAh or above? You mean Chinese p... moreAgain, those are almost non existent in the flagship segment. Motorola, TCL? Lol

    Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025lol Nice changing the goalposts. You said every other flag... moreYou're the one changing goalposts.
    Nothing doesn't even have a flagship phone.

    And again, I'm talking about the biggger brands and their Flagships. I don't care about almost non existent brands.

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      coolg54321, 31 Jan 2025I have a find x8 pro and i could easily get 7+ hours of sot... moreThe Oppo Find X8 Pro also has garbage software and a small optical fp sensor for $1000+.

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        Eduard33, 31 Jan 2025Sony is irrelevant. Motorola and Nothing are obviously not... morelol Nice changing the goalposts.
        You said every other flagship phone is 6000mah.
        That's patently not true.

          4.5 rating is hard to digest for S25 ultra this time.......!!!!!!

            Eduard33, 31 Jan 2025Other than Apple and Google everyone else is at 6000mah or ... more"Everyone"? 6,000mAh or above? You mean Chinese phones?

            The Moto Edge 50 is at 5,000mAh and the Edge 50 Neo is at 4,310mAh. Sony, Asus, Nothing, Nokia/HMD and TCL to name a few certainly aren't.

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              • 31 Jan 2025

              How could this phone get higher score than Oneplus 13??

                Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025M14 is what iphone 16 pro has. 17 pro gonna have new one.... moreI find zero info on M15 panels being in production and the next iPhone is already basically done. I doubt it. Even if it was though, it STILL would not matter. M13+ is just as good as M14, even if it isn't as bright, it's plenty combined with the anti glare coating.

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                  jiyen235, 31 Jan 2025try testing an iPhone after a year to two years in the same... moreAre you sure about that? i'm still using iphone 8 plus as secondary phone and battery life still good 6 hrs with 75% of battery life so.

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                    • 31 Jan 2025

                    So, it looks like there are some upgrades this year, despite what the naysayers here have been saying. Removing the bluetooth from the S pen is a downer though.

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                      • 31 Jan 2025

                      4.5/5 rating is probably the sum of the ratings of S24U and S25U... There is no other explanation.

                        coolg54321, 31 Jan 2025I have a find x8 pro and i could easily get 7+ hours of sot... morewell, my bad! I was only comparing the numbers found on this website. In real life use cases/battery tests, the Samsung gets DEMOLISHED by the Find X8 Pro and other phones like that. I mean the S25 U finds it tough to keep pace with the 16 Pro Max and the Oppo, Vivo and Oneplus phones comfortably beat that phone lol

                        Insane to think that this is the first time these companies are using Si/C batteries in their bar phones so they're most likely gonna have an even more optimized experience next generation. And the fact that the Find X8 Ultra is releasing globally also has me excited! Imagine the battery Oppo's gonna have on that phone.... I mean the Oneplus 13 has excellent battery life already so I'm hoping to see at worst the same battery life as that phone and if the Ultra has better battery life then YEOWZERS, phone of the year (unless Xiaomi's Ultra has a competitive battery performance).

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                          Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025And all the time being more expensive than the iPhone pro m... more"How dare people want a device they can actually control"?
                          Not criticizing your pricing argument, the price is dumb (so is the iPhone one...and any other $1000 phone's), but not fighting out some people have specific needs and the iPhone might not meet them is kind'a sad in 2025.

                            Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025Seems You still stuck with iPhone 6 lol. Since iPhone 8 plu... moretry testing an iPhone after a year to two years in the same conditions. I don't care about worthless optimisations that come from nuked performance/fluidity. I care about actual real life battery performance and it's horrendous on iPhones after a year, each iOS update nukes battery life.

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                              • 31 Jan 2025

                              Many here saying score is unfair.
                              If it was phone from another brand, score would have been reduced to 4.2 or 4.1 after review was published.

                                Eduard33, 31 Jan 2025Sony is irrelevant. Motorola and Nothing are obviously not... moreI'm pretty sure the Sony Xperia 1 VI is equal to, or better than, Samsung/Google/Apple, in terms of camera, and battery life. I looked at it, but I think used prices were expensive + no s pen.

                                It might be better than the flagship Pixel - I thought the Pixels had bad battery life. But I've never seen the appeal of Pixels

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                                  xPandamon, 31 Jan 2025The current panel is M14, S Ultra and I think the other S s... moreM14 is what iphone 16 pro has.
                                  17 pro gonna have new one.
                                  Again.

                                    It's come to the point that even gsmarena couldn't take it anymore. They've now cut back on the sugar coating

                                      HAC, 31 Jan 2025what do u suggest as an alternative?You got plenty out there. you could go for the vivo X200 Pro, Oppo Find X8 Pro, or wait for the Xiaomi 15 Ultra to be released. Same goes for the yet-to-be-released vivo X200 Ultra and Oppo Find X8 Ultra, although availability on those ones are going to be limited by country and region. Hell, you could just as well go for an iPhone 16 Pro Max or save yourself some money and get last year's S24 Ultra, which only has a slightly weaker (yet still plenty powerful) chip, and a different ultrawide camera compared to the S25 Ultra.

                                        Eduard33, 31 Jan 2025Yes, go watch any comparison on youtube between the iPhone ... moreAgain those comparison aren't same thing tested here in Gsmarena, if you have comparison which test and give specific score to streaming, or browsing then link it so that we can compare. Gsmarena don't test Antutu, Camera, running heavy games etc in their test.

                                        Also Apple E cores are most efficient than anything in Android world, so running anything which require low power iPhone would have advantage, it's not conspiracy theory or anything.

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