Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review

30 January 2025


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Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025"muh bluetooth S-Pen" Change the record. It�... moreAccording to the comments under all the reviews I've seen + all my friends, it turns out that 9 out of 10 people with Ultra use the Bluetooth functions.

    Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025The S-Pen is still part of the Ultra, but it no longer supp... moreThey will bring it back next year and then act like its a new feature

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      • 31 Jan 2025

      Kloot, 31 Jan 2025You know I went to bat for Samsung this week because everyo... more"muh bluetooth S-Pen"

      Change the record. It's boring. Barely anyone even used this.

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        Kloot, 31 Jan 2025You know I went to bat for Samsung this week because everyo... moreI tried to explain this to several users here. It doesn't matter to me what Samsung will do, because for a number of reasons I don't like working with their devices. But the company should at least think a little about Samsung's people/fans, not just about its profit. Their fans shouldn't be happy that Samsung is doing wonders in optimization and with a smaller battery they have similar results as other companies. Fans should be angry that they are not offered a new generation battery with a 1000mAh larger capacity, which together with the wonderful optimization will give them additional hours on a single charge. And this is just one example, and there are more, but I don't want to waste time describing them. Even if I don't use their devices, I regret that Samsung has gone from being a leader in innovation and development to an iPhone clone. Only we - the users - suffer from this.

          Samsung is going in the wrong direction! Why does more samsung phones copy the Apple design? Samsung cant come up with their own design? The specs are great on this phone, but samsung has lost too many court battles and is forced to install all its bloatware. I am looking for a new phone maker to go with, leaving samsung. What phone should I look into?

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            • Anonymous
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            • 31 Jan 2025

            cpu at 60 % and GPU at 50 , what a joke the Snapdragon is. Well Android is all about paper specs so I suppose its fine.....

              Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025The S-Pen is still part of the Ultra, but it no longer supp... moreYou know I went to bat for Samsung this week because everyone kind of beats them up for not innovating enough, and now... I apologize to everyone. This company can buzz off. Remove a brilliant feature everyone liked - price goes up. All their incremental improvements, blah blah blah best s25 ever : you stepped in it Samsung. You already removed card slots and aux ports, which - ay tech moves on I guess but this is too stupid. Fix this Samsung.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 31 Jan 2025

                With the spen downgrade i will rather buy the s24 ultra and dump the s25 ultra.

                Sami why are you going backwards

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                  • Anonymous
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                  • 31 Jan 2025

                  The S-Pen is still part of the Ultra, but it no longer supports Bluetooth. This means no more air actions and no more remote camera shutter.

                  Samsung this is really bad ... get it updated to support it







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                    • 31 Jan 2025

                    Eduard33, 31 Jan 2025Other than Apple and Google everyone else is at 6000mah or ... moreYou sure about that?
                    Sony is at 5000mah
                    Motorola is at 5000mah
                    Nothing is at 5000mah
                    Honor is at 5270mah for Europe.
                    ASUS and Huawei are under 6000mah.

                      DroidBoye, 31 Jan 2025GSMArena changed the values. The S25U has way lower overall... moreSometime if you changed propotion of subtest it apply to all phones you need to click reset to see it the way Gsmarena intend,

                        Eduard33, 31 Jan 2025Accurate for their tests, sure. But almost any other compar... moreWhat real world usage? Can you show us someone who do streaming test with different score?

                          xPandamon, 31 Jan 2025Buddy, you good? All of the ones upvoting this, so you guys... moreGSMArena changed the values. The S25U has way lower overall battery values the first time I saw this review. Those people also saw it too and they're not wrong. IDK why the values have changed. I made sure that the parameters have been resetted before I made the comment.

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                            I'm not a big fan of having the ultimate Samsung Ultra every year it comes out, to me S25 Ultra is appalling. So, they did a poll about the bluetooth connectivity of the S pen, and some say they don't use it, I find it pretty handy on my S24 Ultra which I plan to stick with it as long as it works and with 7 mayor OS updates it's a keeper as long as it don't stop working for another reason. So, If you have an older phone say like S20, S21, S22 or even older that would be a major update for you.

                              Yeah, you're the other side of the coin in the never ending battle of lab vs reality testing.

                              Whenever someone comes up with somewhat comparable testing environment, one side cries that it has nothing to do with reality and values aren't real.
                              So then they come up with testing very close to real life, and the other side of this pointless debate starts crying each test like that is not repeatable under comparable circumstances, therefore its results don't allow for comparison between phones.

                              The same happened with lab gas mileage testing vs WLTP. Everyone whined average consumption achieved in lab has nothing to do with real life, because of unrealistic conditions. So they came up with WLTP - now people are whining summer vs winter gas consumption is different, traffic is not always the same, yadda yadda. The point of lab tests was not to provide real-life value, but comparable environment to see how different engines and cars perform under the same conditions. Not good enough? They came up with WLTP, now everyone's moaning non-repeatable conditions that skew results on way or the other.

                              At this point everyone should just ignore both of your whining and carry on because there's no pleasing any of you, ever.

                              The rest of us - with enough brain cells cobbled together to allow for critical, analytical thinking - take these with a pinch of salt, understanding that everyone's daily routine, cell coverage and habits are different, so there is margin for difference against lab tests, while also appreciating repeatable (but only to a degree) conditions of lab tests as more-or-less accurate comparison between different products. It's never 100% real world accurate, because no phone testing site will come to your house (or any of the other hundreds of thousands of houses) to test under your special snowflake life conditions. And it's never 100% reliably repeatable, because it's physically impossible to provide testing conditions that factor in all variables, including those out of control of the testing crew.

                                xPandamon, 31 Jan 2025So what, now battery capacity suddenly is uninteresting and... moreWrong again. Difference is more than 20% in web browsing even with more efficient panel and even compared to other 1440p phones and panel and some other things doesn't make up lower capacity against others with same chipset in video playback. What I mentioned about calls is that without their increase it would be in lower 14h. The panel advantage will shrink in the future as emissive efficiency gets upped.

                                  vik457, 31 Jan 2025Well you don't know what priorisation I meant, it'... moreSo what, now battery capacity suddenly is uninteresting and just the chip is important when making comparisons? I just added a bunch of 8 Elite phones, some beat it, others didn't. Same for the browsing weakness. But that's when comparing phones with 6000 mAh or more to the S25 Ultra. Leveling the field, the S25 Ultra lasts the longest, even with the current results, it hangs in there very, very well and won't cause anyone trouble

                                    RicardoG, 31 Jan 2025i'm agree with you, hype more than real live. camera P... moreAnd especially iqoo 13 and gt7 pro

                                      Anonymous, 31 Jan 2025My 4 year old Mi 10 Ultra charges in 17 minutes and takes m... moreOkay? It charges 40 minutes less, but I bet even new it lasted much shorter. Xiaomi has had battery life issues for years, that's why I did not get one of their phones again after my 9T Pro. Also for the camera, give and take. In the last years camera upgrades in general have been quite stale, outside of stuff like nighttime photography where the S25 Ultra will easily best the Xiaomi you have

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                                        xPandamon, 31 Jan 2025Yeah no problem. The S25U Ultra uses a better M13 panel, in... moreOnly Pixel Fold, iphones and Galaxy S and Fold use M material.
                                        Chineses phones used to have E panels, now only chinese oled.

                                        Galaxy S is always 2 gens behind iphone pro max .
                                        Iphone to have m15

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