RIP Exynos? Hello Galaxy S25 Slim!

Look, it's no secret that Samsung's mobile division has found itself in something of a rut right now. Caught between its old rival Apple, the rising power of frenemy Google and Chinese brands looking to dominate in Europe and Asia, it's not difficult to find figures that point to the Samsung Galaxy lineup having seen better days.

But with some important changes coming to its highest-end model *and* a new svelte form factor planned to pre-empt the upcoming iPhone 17 Air, this could actually turn out to be a crucial year for this veteran Android brand. Let's jump into what we know so far about the Galaxy S25 series.

0:00 Intro
0:33 Design
1:35 Key Specs
3:37 Galaxy S25 Ultra
5:46 Galaxy S25 Cameras
7:08 Galaxy S25 Slim
8:24 One UI 7
9:24 Release Date & Closing Thoughts

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[h.montet]

I am so annoyed with brands making the phones thinner. Phones are already thin enough... What I need is a big ass battery to go through 2 of 3 days, but they'd rather make it last barely one day.

[dylanchadderton]

How does the regular S24 and probably S25 still only have FHD 1080P displays? In 2024/25? I remember back in 2014ish, 10 years ago we were moving away from 1080P to 1444P and 4K. Just because i dont want the massive flagship Ultra version doesnt mean i want lower specs. I wish they made the regular S24 with a qHD display.

[iLuseMyvs]

They have to update the cameras at some point. Phone technology has leveled off, but the camera is where Samsung can impove vs previous models.

[jejunamja]

Wow so they're going to try to sell us an s25 and the plus model with the same cameras again like that's been since the s21 I think it's definitely time to change and try another brand

[shanepatrick]

Bring back the SD card slot and headphone jack!!

[TheGrscott]

Best physical upgrade for phones these days would be to hide that damn front facing camera under the screen

[thanura.m]

another year, another recycling. Give me 1400$ lol. what a shame!

[beyondu]

I seems like current S24 owners have no reason to upgrade since they hardware isn't that much different.

[BomoBomo-gowt]

will the slim variation have the carbon silicon battery which has 20% more capacity in the same physical size?

[sindex]

I'd love for Samsung phones to be able to take a photo of a moving object and not have it blur like crazy.

[MarioRafaelM]

We need bigger batteries that's all

[davidm]

I'm so excited for the smallest S25. The perfect screen size plus the whole phone is getting slightly smaller? It's just perfecting this design! I hope it has QI2!! Need those magnets

[HolloVVpoint]

The s21 ultra was peak Samsung design, imagine what they could do with all the space the Spen takes up if they just got rid off it? Disappointed that it’s not going retired.

[maximusg]

The only thing that would make me switch from my s23U would be much bigger batteries.

[justalurker]

samsung has been in the dumps for quite some time now. "new" phones with bearly any upgrades that doesn't makes their releases feel special and exciting that is just overpriced and waste of money, terrible choices made in terms of hardware to cheap out for max profit and terrible software and piss poor battery life. in the early days of the smartphone era, samsung in my eyes used to much more the forefront, but nowadays they bearly resemble what they used to be. also, one of the major reason why chinese brands have become bigger over the years in the eu is because they offer MUCH MORE FOR LESS.can't speak for asia but it might be the same there ? if samsung and apple wanted to, they could have done the same, but they choose not to. if they lose market share outside of the us, its on them for being complacent and ignorant.

[onkelklaujo]

Rip Exynos would be great. I hate the only offer Exynos for many galaxy in my country

[Young_Dab]

Samsung should've learned years ago that there's a profitable market for a Ultra phone without the s-pen.

[rjrrr]

Up the price and give us the M14...It makes no sense that Samsung allows Apple to use this screen and no it's own phones🥴smh

[antraxbeta]

Samsung's mistake was to want to be Apple, asking apple prices only made people buy apple, i know i for one @ the same price will buy a iphone over a samsung, since apple doesn't have the habbit to stop software suport after 2 major OS updates, and then came the tab s 10, putting a mediatek chip in a premium tablet was a major mistake, i was really hyped that the tab s10 would use the SD elite, but they went to cheap chip to max out profits, so m4 ipad pro it is for me.

[nwuk]

Ugh. 0.3cm thinner?! Make it thicker n give us a 7 day battery. 0.3cm is pointless. Last 3 flagships bought had faults from new, they need to work on quality control