This simply in, the Galaxy S25+ has arrived and we have began work on its evaluate. However within the meantime, let’s do an unboxing.
As earlier than, the Galaxy S25+ ships with a USB-C cable and a SIM eject device. You’d want to produce your personal case and charger. Charging, as earlier than, peaks at 45 watts.
It is a working theme all through the brand new Galaxy S25 sequence (however particularly on the non-Extremely fashions) – little has modified. The Galaxy S25+ is an nearly equivalent telephone to its predecessor. It is simpler to record what’s modified – you get the brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC and that is about it.
That is considerably of a giant deal if we dig a bit deeper than “it is only a chip improve”. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is a considerable bounce over the 8 Gen 3. On the CPU aspect, the brand new Oryon prime core runs at as much as 4.32GHz – a large enhance over the three.4GHz of the Cortex-X4 core. Qualcomm boasts a forty five% sooner processor within the Elite. Shifting to graphics, the Elite boasts a 40% improve in efficiency. The neural processing unit, aka the NPU that runs all that AI magic, is 45% extra highly effective per watt. Lastly, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is touted as 45% extra environment friendly.
These are all staggering numbers. In our personal benchmark testing (Galaxy S25 Extremely evaluate), we discovered the brand new SoC to be round 30% sooner in multi-core and round 25% sooner in single-core assessments, ditto with graphics assessments).
The Galaxy S25+ feels new and refreshing in a tangible method. Nevertheless, most of that comes because of the visible overhaul that’s One UI 7, which is sure to trickle all the way down to the Galaxy S24+ as properly. The all-important animation snappiness and fluidity are a stage above and the interface appears increased high quality.
There are refined new UI sounds that give the software program a bodily presence. Samsung took its time with this launch and it exhibits. We’re nonetheless type of bitter that the vertically scrolling app drawer did not occur. At this level, it is solely Samsung that lacks the characteristic.
However nonetheless huge an improve the Snapdragon 8 Elite and One UI 7, there is no going round the truth that the Galaxy S25+ is just about equivalent to its predecessor within the different ways in which matter – identical show, identical battery measurement, and charging pace, and worse but, identical cameras. We won’t see many individuals upgrading even when we take note of Samsung’s beneficiant pre-order trade-in affords.
