Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review

30 January 2025


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PepperPot, 31 Jan 2025GSM's battery tests tend to be a little more aggressiv... moreSame, others showed good results for the battery too. Although there were some outliers, same for the temperatures\ throttling. But to be fair, these are probably still phones on pre-release firmware so some things may change, Samsung usually releases a bigger update near launch

    DroidBoye, 31 Jan 2025GSMArena changed the values. The S25U has way lower overall... moreMaybe they uploaded the wrong results, or te-tested them. Samsung phones do need a few days to fully show their potential after all. Still weird, but that explains a lot

      Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025Only Pixel Fold, iphones and Galaxy S and Fold use M materi... moreThe current panel is M14, S Ultra and I think the other S series models too use M13+, which is even newer than M14.

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        • Takan
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        • 31 Jan 2025

        Where is my favorite colourful snail photo!

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          • Anonymous
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          • 31 Jan 2025

          And all the time being more expensive than the iPhone pro max . Oh dear
          I do pity people that fall for this….

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            • 31 Jan 2025

            jiyen235, 31 Jan 2025X200 Pro and Find X8 Pro aren't necessarily better tha... moreSeems You still stuck with iPhone 6 lol. Since iPhone 8 plus and iphone still remain best battery life of any phone around if you don't know you need to check youtube battery comparison between iphone 16 pro max vs s25 ultra vs vivo x2 pro vs honor magic 7 pro iphone 16 pro max beats all these phones despite smaller mAh 4685

              Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025You sure about that? Sony is at 5000mah Motorola is at 50... moreSony is irrelevant.
              Motorola and Nothing are obviously not proper flagships.
              Honor is 5270 only in Europe for whatever dumb reason, their global variant is 5850mah.
              Asus and Huawei are also at 5700mah or more, basically in the same ballpark as other chinese phones.

                Hemedans, 31 Jan 2025What real world usage? Can you show us someone who do strea... moreYes, go watch any comparison on youtube between the iPhone and flagship android phones. GSM arena gives a crazy advantage to the iPhone in their tests but in those yt comparisons they're basically on par with every other device, slightly better in some apps and slightly worse in some others.

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                  • Anonymous
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                  • 31 Jan 2025

                  Really disappointed with that brightness level of S25 ultra

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                    Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025They still don't want to innovate. It's time for ... moreYes

                      jiyen235, 31 Jan 2025X200 Pro and Find X8 Pro aren't necessarily better tha... moreOr how samsung throttles the brightness or cellular modem power management lol.

                        jiyen235, 31 Jan 2025X200 Pro and Find X8 Pro aren't necessarily better tha... moreI have a find x8 pro and i could easily get 7+ hours of sot on it and one full charge is good enough for 2 days, i'm really impressed with its battery life also the UI is really smooth and I love the camera. I don't do much gaming but do a lot of photo/video editing and it renders really quick on it. I had a pixel 8 pro before it was pain to do photo/video editing on it, even google photos magic editor is quicker by a very big margin on the find x8 pro (may be to do with a real flagship SoC/UFS 4)

                        Samsung/Google are now trying to market their overpriced flagships behind those half baked AI shit that a "normal" user doesnt care. They should have spent those AI money to improve their hardware instead.

                          vik457, 31 Jan 2025So which one will be?By youtuber's standards - iPhone 17 Pro (Max). The introduction of vapor chamber is going to be a game changer to their little minds.
                          If world was fair, OP13 or the upcomig OP Open 2 deserves it. They are current standard setters for their respective form factors.
                          Xiaomi's,Vivo's and Oppo's Ultra will be wow in camera specs, but due to their limited availabilty, nobody will care.

                            xPandamon, 31 Jan 2025Who would've thought, neither battery life nor the &qu... moreGSM's battery tests tend to be a little more aggressive, but I've been seeing really good things about the battery life from other online publications.

                            Overall, I do agree with you. I expected a much wider lead in battery life from the larger capcacity silicon carbon battey phones vs. the smaller li-on battery on the S25 Ultra. Aside from the Xiaomi and Oppo, the charging speeds aren't much faster. I don't think these resutls are enough of a difference to force Samsung to use silicon carbon batteries. I think the Fold would benefit more than the Ultra.

                            It's still early though. I'll await more tests.

                              DroidBoye, 31 Jan 2025Anyone noticed in the comparison section of the battery run... moreX200 Pro and Find X8 Pro aren't necessarily better than this phone AND the fact that they use an FHD+ screen also holds them back. HOWEVER, the Oneplus 13 is a genuine improvement over this phone despite having the same QHD screen. Weird stuff done by Oppo/Vivo that resulted in the lower battery runtimes for the X8 Pro and X200 Pro, perhaps a more inefficient display?

                              Anyways, the gaming runtime over here doesn't matter as in other gaming tests the Oneplus phones perform fine if you crank down the settings. Samsung's phones throttle so hard that they maintain good battery life but you dont get high fps if you crank up the game settings.

                              So essentially, "good optimisation" in terms of software just means being more restrictive. Which is why i don't really like Apple despite their monstrous battery figures and now Samsung's joining that category. Immensely disappointed.

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                                sdkk, 31 Jan 2025According to the comments under all the reviews I've s... moreVocal minority. You're bound to hear more complaints than people who don't care.

                                  Looks refined, but boring indeed... barely any updates since s23 or s22 unless you absolutely want the fastest chipset. I think samsung is getting a bit self-indulgent

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                                    • 31 Jan 2025

                                    I don't know, I quite like the overall look of the photos but for example the bush/tree in the second 1x photo looks really bad compared to the same photo taken with the Vivo X200 Pro, it makes it looks the S25 like it's generations older

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                                      David 040882, 31 Jan 2025Good for you. Wasted money, but good for you if you can aff... morewhat do u suggest as an alternative?

                                        raditz594, 31 Jan 2025They will bring it back next year and then act like its a n... morei dont think it'll come back this soon. They'll let everyone forget it and then 5 years later when they've run out of upgrade ideas they're gonna slap this one in. Apple-like stuff.

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