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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: Too much AI, not enough Ultra

For the Galaxy S25 Ultra, Samsung added a new ultra-wide camera sensor, Gorilla Armor 2 and a big revamp to its AI suite. But is that enough to convince you to buy a new $1,300 phone?

This can be seen across a number of new and improved features (and some obvious inspiration from rivals like Apple and Google) with the general goal of making all of its tools more powerful, more intuitive and in many cases, easier to use with your voice. As you’d expect, expansive landscape pics look a touch sharper thanks to the increased resolution, though aside from that, there aren’t a ton of immediately obvious improvements to the rest of the phone’s general image quality. That’s because while technically the S25 Ultra supports version 2.1 of the WPC’s Qi charging spec and is said to be “Qi2 ready”, because Samsung didn’t include magnets inside the phone, it won’t work with the wide variety of Qi2 accessories on sale today.

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