Phone companies are going to need to start doing new releases every two or three years instead of annually if this is how things are going to go from now on.
Annual phone upgrades started looking incremental to regular people years ago, but the tech-savvy among us could always point to at least one or two changes that were actually meaningful. With the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, we might have finally passed the rubicon where even I, a professional tech writer, can’t really muster a reason why anyone with a somewhat recent Android phone would need to upgrade to this device. The differences between last year’s model and this one are so marginal as to almost not exist.
Yes, the display is very slightly bigger, and there’s a new chip inside that puts up nice scores in benchmarks. But much of that new processing power is devoted to AI applications that are mildly useful at best, gimmicky on average, and outright hostile to human creativity at worst. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is not a bad premium flagship by any means, but it’s really difficult to think of a reason why you should buy one.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Price and specs
Volume and power.
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