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Samsung Galaxy S25 series sets the standard for AI phones as a true AI companion

Adi Zeljković
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“Today, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. presented the Galaxy S25 Ultra, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 models, setting a new standard for the device as a true AI companion.”

Revolution in the multimodal era with Samsung's most contextual and personalized mobile experience.By introducing multimodal AI agents, the Galaxy S25 series represents the first step in Samsung's vision to change the way users interact with their phones – and their world. The customized Snapdragon® 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, the first of its kind, ensures greater on-device processing power for Galaxy AI and top-tier camera range and control with the next-generation ProVisual Engine for Galaxy devices.

„The best innovations reflect their users, and that is why we developed Galaxy AI to help everyone use their devices in a more natural and easier way, with a guarantee that their privacy is secure,“ said TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics. „The Galaxy S25 series opens the door to an AI-integrated operating system that fundamentally changes the way we use technology and live.“

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Our most intuitive and effortless mobile interactions ever

With One UI 7, the Galaxy S25 series is a true AI companion that understands the context of your needs and preferences, providing a personalized AI experience with guaranteed privacy at every step. This is the starting point of a shared vision with Google to create Android devices with AI at the center, bringing together developers and partners from around the world.

AI agents with multimodal capabilities allow the Galaxy S25 to interpret text, speech, images, and videos for natural interaction. Thanks to the new version of the Circle to Search feature from Google, searching the phone screen is more useful, faster, and more contextual. This function now faster recognizes phone numbers, emails, and URL addresses on your screen, allowing you to call, email, or visit a site with a single touch.

With the Galaxy S25 series, you can also perform efficient searches with contextual suggestions for next steps. Additionally, the Galaxy S25 allows for easy switching from one app to another for quick actions, such as sharing a GIF or saving event details. The Galaxy S25 series also represents a revolution in understanding natural language, making everyday interactions easier. Simply ask and intuitively find a specific photo in the Samsung gallery or adjust the font size on the screen in settings. Just press and hold the side button to activate Gemini to perform seamless interaction with Samsung and Google apps, as well as third-party apps like Spotify. For example, find the seasonal schedule of the team you support and add it to the Samsung calendar – with just one command.

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These intuitive interactions are enhanced by the expansion of popular Galaxy AI tools for communication, productivity, and creativity. Galaxy S25 organizedly saves calls through the Call Transcript and summary function. The Writing Assist function for summarizing content or automatic formatting of notes can be turned on wherever text can be selected, without the need to switch from one app to another. The Drawing Assist function creates new ways of turning ideas into reality by combining input sketches, text, or images.

Hyper-personalized experience with secure privacy

In the era of AI, personalization goes hand in hand with privacy. On the Galaxy S25 series, the Personal Data Engine enables personalized AI functions by analyzing your data on the device to provide a specially tailored experience reflecting your preferences and usage patterns. These insights offer a personalized experience such as searching for an old photo in the gallery using natural speech or guiding you through the day with the Now Brief function, which actively offers recommendations available through the Now bar on the lock screen. All personalized data remains private and secure thanks to Knox Vault. In combination with enhanced on-device processing capacities, this creates a powerful, protected AI experience unique to Galaxy.

Galaxy S25 also introduces post-quantum cryptography to protect personal data from new threats that could arise with the development of quantum computing. Since there is no privacy without comprehensive security, One UI 7 has laid the foundations for these innovations by introducing an additional, reinforced level of device security designed for the age of AI and hyper-connectivity. Additional updates include maximum restriction settings, enhanced theft protection, and the new Knox Matrix dashboard for monitoring security status across the ecosystem of connected devices.

Most powerful Galaxy performance ever

The Galaxy S25 series is equipped with the Snapdragon® 8 Elite for Galaxy processor. With unique customizations for Galaxy, this is the most powerful processor ever in the Galaxy S series and offers a performance increase of 40% for the NPU, 37% for the CPU, and 30% for the GPU compared to the previous generation. Thanks to this power, the Galaxy S25 series can process more on-device AI experiences without compromise, including AI tasks previously based on the cloud, such as Generative Edit.

Samsung and Qualcomm Technologies worked together on customizing the Snapdragon® 8 Elite for Galaxy processor. The Galaxy S25 series is characterized by advanced, efficient AI image processing with ProScaler for a 40% improvement in screen image scaling quality, while combining customized technology with the Samsung Digital Natural Image engine (mDNIe) built into the processor using Galaxy IP enables greater screen energy efficiency. Snapdragon® 8 Elite for Galaxy also features the Vulkan Engine and enhanced Ray Tracing for smoother and more realistic mobile gaming.

Intensive device use and AI processing take place smoothly thanks to the modified heat dissipation structure with a 40% larger vapor chamber and a customized thermal interface material (TIM) for additional thermal efficiency improvement.

Unleashing truly professional creativity

The Galaxy S25 series offers highly detailed shots at every range with high-resolution sensors and ProVisual Engine, setting a new standard for mobile photography. With a new 50 MP ultra-wide camera sensor upgraded from the previous 12 MP, Galaxy S25 Ultra provides exceptional clarity and vividness.

10-bit HDR recording is now applied automatically and offers a four times richer color representation compared to 8-bit. The Galaxy S25 series can thus capture details in any lighting conditions. Additionally, low-light videos have never been clearer than with the Galaxy S25. Thanks to the powerful processor, Galaxy S25 analyzes movement and time to more effectively reduce noise. This integration allows the registration of both moving and static objects with greater precision, guaranteeing sharper and clearer shots in any conditions.

Galaxy S25 also introduces a series of tools that were once limited to specialized software, making advanced editing accessible to everyone. Now anyone can be a professional in editing photos and videos. The Audio Eraser function makes removing unwanted noise in video recordings simpler. By isolating sound categories – including voices, music, wind, nature, crowd, and noise – you can control what to reduce or completely remove. For a DSLR-like experience on a mobile device, Galaxy S25 introduces depth of field control with Virtual aperture, integrated into the popular Expert RAW. Galaxy S25 also enhances visual creativity with Galaxy Log, which allows precise color grading options for more professional video production.

The Portrait Studio function has also been improved and allows users to create personalized avatars with facial expressions truer to reality. The filter function introduces new analog-style filters and provides a cinematic aesthetic for photos and videos.

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Durable design encompasses a more circular approach

The Galaxy S25 series relies on the "essential design" of Galaxy devices based on "simple, concrete, and emotional" elements. Galaxy S25 Ultra reflects this essence in the thinnest, lightest, and most durable Galaxy S series so far, with a rounded edge for a comfortable grip that complements the aesthetic identity of this series.

Galaxy S25 Ultra features durable titanium and the new Corning® Gorilla® Armor 2, the first material of its kind that is more durable than glass. It combines ceramic glass from Corning with an original anti-reflective surface treatment to help in advanced drop protection, as well as anti-reflective surface treatment and scratch resistance.

Every external component of the Galaxy S25+ and S25 now encompasses at least one recycled material as the metal frame for the first time contains recycled reinforced aluminum.

Additionally, the Galaxy S25 series uses at least 50% recycled cobalt for the battery, and Galaxy S25 will be the first Galaxy smartphone to contain batteries made from recycled cobalt from previous Galaxy devices or batteries discarded during the production process. Samsung is going through multiple phases with its like-minded partners, from extracting cobalt from used batteries to reusing recycled cobalt for Galaxy S25 batteries. In combination with seven generations of operating system updates and seven years of security updates, the Galaxy S25 series guarantees reliable and improved performance over a longer lifespan.

All Galaxy S25 devices come with six months of Gemini Advanced and 2 TB of cloud storage at no extra cost. Gemini Advanced comes with our most capable AI models and priority access to the latest features such as Gems, customized AI experts for any topic and in-depth research, which acts as your personal AI assistant for research.

The Galaxy S25 series can be pre-ordered from January 22nd. Galaxy S25 Ultra is available in titanium silver-blue, titanium black, titanium white-silver, and titanium gray. Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ are available in navy blue, silver shadow, ice blue, and mint green. You can read more about Galaxy S25 Ultra, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25, as well as the pre-order, at the link. The pre-order lasts until February 6, 2025, by the end of the day

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