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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Smartphones Unveiled: ‘A New Chapter in Mobile AI’

Rob Edwards
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Samsung has just unveiled its new Galaxy S25 smartphone range, and while it serves up a variety of upgrades to last year’s already formidable S24 offering, your desire to pick up one of these polished new handsets will likely depend on your feelings towards AI.

As has long been Samsung’s way, the new range features three devices—the Galaxy S25, S25+, and the flagship S25 Ultra—collectively presenting what the tech giant describes as “a new chapter in mobile AI”. Samsung expands on this further, saying it hopes these devices and their multimodal AI agents will “change the way users interact with their phone – and with their world.”

Whether that sounds promising or ominous will depend on how you envision our inevitable AI-integrated future. For the time being, it means more human-esque interactions with your phone’s in-built AI, alongside a selection of additional features that, while perhaps inessential, are certainly nifty. 

The S25 range also serves up some hardware tweaks that are worth noting, including an upgraded camera and a new curved design on the previously square-cornered Ultra device. At first, I was dismayed by this—having been a fan of the S24 Ultra’s signature look—but after holding the S25 Ultra at a recent preview briefing, I have to say its slightly curved corners aren’t without their charm. 

With that out of the way, let’s take a closer look what the Samsung Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra have to offer. 

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Range | Image: Samsung

Samsung Galaxy S25 Range Key Specs

ModelS25 UltraS25+S25
ProcessorOcta-Core (Speed: 4.47GHz, 3.5GHz)Octa-Core (Speed: 4.47GHz, 3.5GHz)Octa-Core (Speed: 4.47GHz, 3.5GHz)
Display Size6.9 inches (6.8 with rounded corners)6.7 inches (6.5 with rounded corners)6.2 inches (6.0 with rounded corners)
Display Resolution3120 x 1440 (Quad HD+)3120 x 1440 (Quad HD+)2340 x 1080 (FHD+)
S Pen SupportYesNoNo
Rear Camera Resolution200.0 MP + 50.0 MP + 50.0 MP + 10.0 MP50.0 MP + 10.0 MP + 12.0 MP50.0 MP + 10.0 MP + 12.0 MP
Rear Camera ZoomOptical Zoom 3x and 5x, Optical quality Zoom 2x and 10x (Enabled by Adaptive Pixel sensor) , Digital Zoom up to 100xOptical Zoom 3x, Optical quality Zoom 2x (Enabled by Adaptive Pixel sensor) , Digital Zoom up to 30xOptical Zoom 3x, Optical quality Zoom 2x (Enabled by Adaptive Pixel sensor) , Digital Zoom up to 30x
Front Camera Resolution12.0 MP12.0 MP12.0 MP
Dimensions(HxWxD, mm)
162.8 x 77.6 x 8.2
(HxWxD, mm)
158.4 x 75.8 x 7.3
(HxWxD, mm)
146.9 x 70.5 x 7.2
Weight218g190g162g
Battery5,000mAh4,900mAh4,000mAh
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra | Image: Samsung

One UI 7

If Samsung’s new user interface, One UI 7, has its way, the days of manually navigating between apps, adding events to your calendar, reading and responding to your own emails or messages, and other such activities will become a thing of the past. While I’ve never found any of the above particularly taxing, One UI 7 wants to relieve you of such burdens in order to free up time for more important things, like doomscrolling — we’ll have to wait for One UI 8 for that particular activity to come under Samsung’s AI remit.

In all seriousness, the S25 range’s AI-powered interface is designed to streamline productivity on your new smartphone, offering what Samsung describes as “a true AI companion that understands the context of  your needs and preferences”. This is meant to be the first step in a collaboration with Google to create a version of Android with AI at its core. 

According to Samsung, One UI 7 will see AI agents with multimodal capabilities empower the Galaxy S25 range to interpret text, speech, images and videos so that interactions “feel natural”. Simultaneously, Google’s undeniably handy Circle to Search functionality will now make searching your phone screen more helpful, fast, and contextual, in part by recognising phone numbers, emails, and URLs on your screen so you can call, email, or visit a website with one tap.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 | Image: Samsung

All of this works hand in hand with Gemini—Google’s new AI model—which offers compatibility across a wide range of Samsung, Google, and third-party apps like Spotify. As an example of how this can work, you can find your favourite sports team’s season schedule and add it to Samsung Calendar via a single command. Alternatively, you can use AI to create call transcripts and summaries, summaries of written content with formatted notes, and drawing functionality that responds to sketches, text, or image prompts.

Further, the Galaxy S25 range sports the Personal Data Engine, which analyses your data on-device to power a range of personalised AI features that Samsung describes as “tailored experiences that reflect your preferences and usage patterns.” 

Remember, if you don’t have a spare AUD$1,399+ burning a hole in your pocket, One UI 7 will debut with the Galaxy S25 range before eventually rolling out to other Galaxy devices, as is often the case with software updates. So, if a new phone isn’t on the cards for you just now, you won’t necessarily miss out on all the AI action. 

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Samsung Galaxy S25+ | Image: Samsung

Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip

What you will miss out on, however, is the new Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, a new chip Samsung promises is the most powerful processor ever to appear on a Galaxy S device. According to the Big S, it delivers a performance boost of 40 per cent in NPU, 37 per cent in CPU, and 30 per cent in GPU. This fuels the device’s AI experiences, so even if you wait to use them when they roll out to an older Galaxy S device, chances are they won’t perform quite so snappily. 

The chip powers a number of range improvements across the new devices, including AI image processing via ProScaler to deliver display image scaling quality (up to QHD+) that’s 40 per cent better than the S24 series, as well as Vulkan Engine functionality and improved ray tracing for smoother and more realistic mobile gaming. 

Naturally, all this power and AI functionality can generate a lot of heat, so the S25 range offers improved heat dissipation via a 40 per cent larger vapour chamber that’s paired with a tailored thermal interface material (TIM) that Samsung claims will deliver “extra improvement in thermal efficiency.”

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra | Image: Samsung

50MP Ultrawide Camera

Samsung’s camera proposition has always been a highly competitive one, and the S25 range promises to bolster that reputation even further, with the S25 Ultra naturally leading from the front. Key to this is the flagship’s new 50MP Ultrawide camera sensor (upgraded from the S24 Ultra’s 12MP), which was demonstrated at my preview briefing and was certainly impressive — I look forward to testing this further in future. 

More broadly, Samsung claims the S25 series offers “ultra-detailed shots at virtually every range with high-resolution sensors and ProVisual Engine setting a new standard for mobile photography.”

Further, the S25 range now serves up 10-bit HDR recording by default and can “capture details in virtually any lighting conditions.” Plus, Samsung promises its powerful processor is capable of analysing movement and time to reduce noise, while the ability to detect both moving and static objects with greater precision results in sharper, cleaner footage in “virtually” any scenario.

The new phones also offer a range of enhanced, AI-powered editing capabilities that range from impressive to gimmicky, but whatever Samsung is promising, the brand has maintained an impressive track record when it comes to delivering on the photography front. As such, I’m inclined to believe every model in the S25 range will absolutely deliver the goods for its price point.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra | Image: Samsung

Curves and Gorilla Glass

As I mentioned in the intro, the Galaxy S25 Ultra is a more curved incarnation of the Samsung flagship. It’s also the slimmest and lightest yet, measuring just 8.2mm thick and weighing 218g. By comparison, the S24 Ultra measures 8.6mm thick and weighs 232g.

This svelte form is constructed using titanium and Corning Gorilla Armor 2, which are designed to ensure the S25 range is Samsung’s toughest collection of smartphones yet. Despite this, their toughness is something I’m willing to take the brand’s word on — I’m not sure my karma can handle the fallout from deliberately dropping brand spanking new smartphones onto concrete, down stairwells, etc. 

On the upside, doing so would provide the opportunity to test a range of the accompanying new accessories, the most striking of which is the new Crocs case with all the jibbitz one might expect, as seen below.

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Samsung’s new Crocs case with the obligatory jibbitz | Image: Samsung

Availability and Pricing

The Galaxy S25 series is available for pre-order from today and will land in stores from 14 February. The S25 Ultra will be available in Titanium Silverblue, Titanium Black, Titanium Whitesilver, and Titanium Gray; the S25 and S25+ will be available in Navy, Silver Shadow, Icyblue, and Mint.

Pricing for the S25 Ultra starts at AUD$2,149 for the 256GB model, AUD$2,349 for the 512GB model, and AUD$2,749 for the 1TB model (all AUD$50 cheaper than the S24 range at launch). The S25+ retails at AUD$1,699 for the 256GB model and AUD$1,899 for the 512GB. Finally, the S25 will set you back AUD$1,399 for the 256 GB model and AUD$1,599 for the 512GB.

Whether you’re in the market for a new AI assistant or your smartphone’s just looking a little long in the tooth, Samsung’s new range is certainly worthy of consideration. Discover more via the link below.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 range | Image: Samsung
Rob Edwards

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Rob Edwards

Rob Edwards is Man of Many’s Branded Content Editor. As a former editor of consumer technology and lifestyle publications like T3, Official Nintendo Magazine, Official Windows Magazine, and TechRadar, Rob has honed his expertise in consumer technology and lifestyle products ...