Samsung Galaxy S25 Series: Specs, Release Date, Price, Specs

Samsung uses Corning’s new Gorilla Armor 2 glass on the S25 Ultra, which is 29 percent more shatter-resistant than the original Gorilla Armor on the Galaxy S24 Ultra. Interestingly, Samsung said it saw a 60 percent reduction in screen repairs from the S24 S23 seriesthis could mean the S25 is even more durable.

The phones are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset that debuted in phones from the likes of Qualcomm. Honor Magic 7 Pro and OnePlus 13. This will be the processor all of them Unlike previous years when Samsung opted for its own Exynos chips in some markets, Samsung Galaxy S25 series phones globally. Samsung claims that this chip offers a 37 percent CPU upgrade, a 30 percent graphics upgrade and a 40 percent improved neural processing unit compared to the S24 series.

Samsung and Qualcomm have collaborated on chip optimization, and this closeness has enabled new features like ProScaler. On the S25 Ultra and S25+ models, this function can adapt the images on the screen to the resolution of the display. Let’s say you’re browsing Instagram and someone uploads a 1080p photo—it’ll be upscaled to QHD+.

The vapor chamber cooling system is larger of the three – an important component to prevent phones from overheating during intense gaming sessions – with the camera on the S25 Ultra getting a 40 percent bump in size. Samsung also says that sitting atop the chip is a new “adaptive thermal interface material” that leaves zero gaps for air, drawing heat from the processor directly to the vapor chamber cooling system to boost performance and reduce battery strain.

The most disappointing part of the hardware story is the lack of support for Qi2 charging. Here it is A new version of the Qi wireless charging standardIt borrows many features from Apple’s MagSafe charging system. It places magnets on the phone and allows users to lock the phone with a magnet Qi2 charger for more efficient and faster wireless charging, plus convenience magnetic accessories to increase the phone. I was expecting to see a few Qi2 Android phones in 2024, but that’s all we got It was HMD’s Skyline. Now, in a move that will make things even more confusing, the Galaxy S25 series is being classified as “Qi2 ready.”

This is a new classification for phones won’t do have built-in magnets, but will provide official and third-party Qi2 cases with magnets inside, bringing the same, if not identical, magnetic experience to a proper Qi2 device. There are Android users who want MagSafe’s utility relying on these cases it’s a shame that Qi2 is still not part of these new phones to date.

Camera specs are pretty much the same as before, except for the ultra-wide on the Galaxy S25 Ultra, which now packs 50 megapixels instead of 12 megapixels. Samsung says this, in turn, improves the quality of macro photos. There are more interesting changes in the image processing algorithm. Samsung’s next-generation ProVisual Engine uses a ‘spatio-temporal filter’ to distinguish between moving and stationary objects to ensure that photo subjects are not blurred when shooting in low-light conditions. Dual analysis denoising analyzes each pixel for noise, looks at the eight pixels around it, and removes the noise to clean up the image.