Samsung Galaxy S25 family's price hike to be limited

Samsung's Galaxy S25 series has long been rumored to arrive with a price hike - in Europe, in Korea, and in India. Today a new report from Samsung's home of Korea details things a bit further. It's good news and bad news.

The bad news is that a price hike is indeed coming, at least in Korea. The good news is that it will apparently only apply to the models with 512GB of storage. The 256GB versions will have the same launch price as their predecessors.

The actual level of the price hike is even better news as it's rumored to be KRW 15,400, which at the current exchange rates translates into roughly $10 or €10. If this is what will happen across the world (and that's undoubtedly a big "if"), we're sure not a lot of people will actually mind.

And if you're thinking of picking up a Galaxy S25 as soon as possible, Samsung is rumored to let you get the 512GB model for the price of the 256GB one, like last year, for a limited time, in which case the price hike simply won't impact you at all.

While Samsung is paying Qualcomm more for the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset that will be used in all three S25 models than it would have cost it to use the Exynos 2500 instead, the latter's yield issues have forced it to go with Qualcomm. But the Korean company has apparently decided to eat the cost difference itself, in service of popularizing AI smartphones - and not seeing any huge drops in shipments, of course.

Keep in mind that even if this is true it only applies to the Korean market and it's unclear whether Samsung will choose to go with the same strategy elsewhere. The Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra are getting official on January 22, and the long-rumored Galaxy S25 Slim might join them, even though it's probably only going to actually become available later in the year.

Source (in Korean)