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Samsung Galaxy S25 review: More powerful, but more of the same

The Samsung Galaxy S25 has useful AI features and an impressive battery life, but the samey hardware and unchanged price tag make for an unconvincing upgrade.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 has useful AI features and impressive battery life, but the familiar hardware and unchanged price tag make for an unconvincing upgrade. While it’s not completely straightforward, AI Select does work well as a shortcut, suggesting translation with foreign languages or offering to pull dates into your calendar with a tap. However, back-to-back generative AI requests and shooting and uploading 4K video made the S25 heat up – it lacks the expanded vapor chamber that Samsung added to the S25 Ultra.

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