Samsung Galaxy S25 goes official beginning at $799, all about AI

Samsung is launching its new Galaxy S25 collection this week, with the trio of latest units not bringing all that many {hardware} upgrades, however leaning even heavier into AI options, all with the identical pricing.

Beginning with the flagship, the Galaxy S25 Extremely is getting just a few {hardware} tweaks. The display and {hardware} corners are actually rounded, transferring a bit additional away from the Galaxy Be aware’s design. The show has additionally grown from 6.8 to six.9 inches, and the entire telephone is lighter at 218g regardless of having the identical 5,000 mAh battery that’s been in place since 2020’s Galaxy S20 Extremely.

Galaxy S25 Extremely additionally will get an improve within the digital camera division. The 200MP foremost digital camera is now mixed with a 50MP sensor for ultrawide pictures, up from the 12MP sensor used prior to now few generations. There’s additionally a 50MP telephoto digital camera with 5x optical zoom and a 10MP digital camera with 3x optical zoom. The front-facing digital camera continues to be a 12MP sensor.

Underneath the hood, the Galaxy S25 Extremely is available in three configurations – 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage, all with 12GB of RAM. That reminiscence allotment can be shared with the Galaxy S25 and S25+, as you’ll discover 12GB of RAM throughout each Galaxy S25 system this 12 months, and no variants can have 16GB of RAM. All Galaxy S25 units, although, might be utilizing the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, a barely tweaked model of Qualcomm’s 2025 flagship cellular chip that features a customized APU. Samsung has additionally boosted the vapor chamber by 15% on the S25 and S25+, and 40% on the S25 Extremely.

The Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ are largely unchanged from their predecessors, with 6.2-inch and 6.7-inch shows, 50MP foremost, 12MP ultrawide, and 10MP 3x telephoto cameras, and the identical 4,000 mAh and 4,900 mAh batteries. Charging charges stay at 25W and 45W respectively, and the bottom Galaxy S25 nonetheless begins at 128GB of storage.

All three units ship with Android 15 and One UI 7, with 7 years of OS and safety updates within the pipeline.

Samsung can be adopting “Qi2 Prepared” with the Galaxy S25 collection. Which means Samsung might be providing some first-party instances and equipment with magnets that work with Qi2 (and MagSafe). There are not any magnets within the telephones themselves, however you’ll additionally discover sure third-party instances with assist.

The primary focus of the Galaxy S25 collection, although, could be very a lot not on the {hardware}. Fairly, it’s all about AI.

With a lot of it powered by Gemini enhancements, Samsung is leveraging “AI brokers” in One UI 7 on the Galaxy S25 to streamline the expertise of utilizing your telephone. This contains enhancements to Google’s companies, reminiscent of Circle to Search upgrades, Gemini’s new capability to “chain” instructions and interactions with apps, and assist for accessing Gemini by long-pressing the Galaxy S25’s energy button. Samsung apps are additionally getting Gemini extensions for deeper integration. As for Samsung’s Galaxy AI options, there are numerous enhancements coming. Generative Edit can now acknowledge an individual’s shadow and take away it once you take away the individual, “Now Transient” can summarize your day, and Samsung Gallery can discover pictures utilizing pure language. The “Private Information Engine” also can analyze your private information on-device to tailor experiences to you whereas respecting your privateness.

As for pricing, nothing’s altering in the USA and plenty of different main markets. $799 for the bottom Galaxy S25 (128GB), $999 for the Galaxy S25+ (256GB), and $1,299 for the Galaxy S25 Extremely (256GB). Galaxy S25 and S25+ will launch in Navy, Icyblue, Mint, and Silver Shadow colours, with Blueblack, Coralred, and
Pinkgold obtainable by way of Samsung.com. Galaxy S25 Extremely will get Titanium Silverblue, Titanium Whitesilver, Titanium Grey, and Titanium Black colours – simply do you don’t overlook this telephone has a titanium body – with Titanium Pinkgold, Titanium Jetblack, and Titanium Jadegreen colours on Samsung.com. And sure, Samsung deliberately wrote the colour names like that… for some motive.

What do you consider the Galaxy S25 collection? Pre-orders are open now with units obtainable on February 7.

The Galaxy S25 collection is now obtainable for pre-order from Samsung.com, with as much as $1,200 in financial savings, plus an extra $50 off once you click on on our hyperlinks and order inside half-hour.

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