Rumored specs for the Samsung Galaxy S25 paint a familiar picture

2024-11-21

There are a few more major smartphone launches left this year, but attention is already starting to shift towards 2025. We’ve heard that the Samsung Galaxy S25 series might be one of the first out of the gate with January 5 reveal, though a different source put the Unpacked event on January 22.

We’ve seen plenty of leaks about the new flagship series and the S25 spec sheet is starting to crystallize. TechManiacs has published a report of what the S25 trio will be like – and, unfortunately, it can be summarized as “more of the same”.

That’s good news, to an extent. It refutes the claim that the Galaxy S25 Ultra will be more expensive than its predecessors – Samsung will allegedly keep the prices the same as the S24 series and will offer its usual “free storage upgrade” promo during the pre-order period. There’s no indication on whether the vanilla S25 will finally make the jump to 256GB base storage capacity.

It will get a RAM upgrade, though it will have 12GB of RAM instead of just 8GB. The Samsung Galaxy S25 phones will use the Snapdragon 8 Elite in all markets after Exynos 2500 production failed to ramp up.

The new ISP inside the Elite chip will be the only camera upgrade that the Galaxy S25 and S25+ see. The S25 Ultra will have an upgraded 50MP ultra wide camera (up from 12MP), but that’s about it. Unless you count the new styling on the camera lenses.

The displays will be mostly the same – same size, same resolution – though the Ultra will have thinner bezels. The battery capacity will not change either and neither will the charging speed – 45W for the Plus and Ultra models, only 25W for the vanilla phone. The efficiency of the Elite chipset might boost battery life, for what that’s worth.

Samsung is said to be putting a lot of weight on new AI features for the Galaxy S25 series – presumably, some of the same AI features that have caused massive delays in One UI 7 development.

We will keep our ears to the ground for any surprise upgrades for the Samsung Galaxy S25, S25+ and S25 Ultra – anything that may have avoided the prying eye of leaksters – but it is looking like another year of incremental upgrades for the S-series.

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