Samsung has installed Corning's new Gorilla Armor 2 glass on the S25 Ultra, which has 29 percent better resistance to fracture than the original Gorilla Armor on the Galaxy S24 Ultra. Interestingly, Samsung says it has seen a 60 percent drop in screen repairs compared to the S24 S23 seriesWhich could mean that the S25 is even more durable.
The phones are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, which debuted in phones like honor magic 7 pro And oneplus 13it will have a processor All Samsung Galaxy S25 series phones globally, unlike previous years when Samsung opted for its own Exynos chips in some markets. Samsung claims that this chip offers 37 percent CPU upgrade, 30 percent graphics boost and 40 percent better neural processing unit compared to the S24 series.
Samsung and Qualcomm have collaborated to optimize the chip, and that close relationship has enabled new features like ProScaler. On the S25 Ultra and S25+, this feature can upscale images on the screen to match the display resolution. Let's say you're browsing Instagram and someone uploads a 1,080p image – it will be upscaled to QHD+.
The vapor chamber cooling system is the larger of these three – a key component to keeping the phone from overheating during intense gaming sessions – with the chamber in the S25 Ultra getting a 40 percent size bump. Samsung also says there's a new “conformal thermal interface material” on top of the chip that leaves zero gaps for air, vapor chamber cooling system to direct heat away from the processor to increase performance and reduce strain on the battery. Pulls in.
Possibly the most disappointing part of the hardware story is the lack of support for Qi2 charging. this is New version of Qi wireless charging standardWhich borrows many features from Apple's MagSafe charging system. It attaches magnets to the phone, allowing users to attach the phone magnetically a Qi2 charger For more efficient and faster wireless charging as well as convenience magnetic accessories To make the phone better. I expected to see a lot of QI2 Android phones in 2024, but all we got hmd skyline wasNow, in a move that will make things even more confusing, the Galaxy S25 series is being classified as “Qi2 ready.”
This is a new classification for those phones Will not done It has built-in magnets, but there will be official and third-party Qi2 cases with magnets inside, which will essentially bring the same magnetic experience if not the same as a proper Qi2 device. Android users who want the utility of MagSafe have trust in these matters So far, so it's a shame that Qi2 is still not natively part of these brand new phones.
Camera specs are pretty much the same as before, with the exception of the ultrawide on the Galaxy S25 Ultra – it now packs 50 megapixels instead of 12. Samsung says this increases the quality of macro photos. There are some more interesting changes in the image processing algorithms. Samsung's next-generation ProVisual Engine uses “spatio-temporal filters” to distinguish between moving and stationary objects to ensure that photo subjects are not blurred when capturing photos in low light conditions. Dual-analysis noise removal analyzes each pixel for noise, looks at the eight pixels around it, and removes the noise to clean up the image.