Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: All the rumors so far
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- Oct 04, 2024
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Leaks from Ice Universe have hinted that the Galaxy S25 Ultra will feature a curvier design than the last few Galaxy Ultras, but will remain flat around the front. Another leak from Ice Universe also gives us a look at the S25 Ultra's right side.
It also appears that the Galaxy S25 Ultra could be the thinnest Ultra device with a total thickness of 8.4 mm, making it the thinnest Ultra device we've seen since the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. Despite this, the display of the S25 Ultra could be wider, making the phone easier to handle. The bezels could get skinnier, too, matching another iPhone 16 Pro Max feature.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Cameras
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Cameras form the centerpiece feature of the Ultra model, as that's the phone Samsung favors with a 200MP main sensor along with a 100MP Space Zoom feature. We'd expect some sort of upgrade to that setup next year, and early Galaxy S25 Ultra camera rumors suggest we may be on to something.
Specifically, a leaker claims that the wide-angle lens on the Galaxy S25 Ultra will get an unspecified upgrade while the ultrawide lens will jump from a 12MP sensor on the S24 Ultra to a 50MP one on the new phone.
If you're wondering how much stock to put in that rumor, which surfaced before the Galaxy S24 lineup was released, know that the leaker did correctly predict the Galaxy S24 Ultra's upgraded 50MP telephoto lens before that feature's arrival.
Furthermore, the telephoto lens on the S25 Ultra is expected to get "variable capabilities." We're not sure what that means exactly, but we'd guess it has something to do with the ability to change focal length while connecte to a single sensor. Leaker @ISAQUES81 claims this may involve fixed focal lengths between 4-5x zoom and then again between 6-7x zoom. The end result would be smoother zooms particularly when shooting video.
However, there's speculation that Samsung may be testing a prototype that ditches the second telephoto lens, leaving the S25 Ultra with three camera lenses instead of 4. While Ice Universe has refuted this, @ISAQUES81 says Samsung may swap in a 3x crop zoom feature from the main lens instead.
Camera setups on the standard Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus may not have many changes from their predecessors, according to rumors, but chatter around the S25 Ultra model centers around potential upgrades to the ultrawide and second telephoto lens sensors, with both turning to 50MP sensors. That would mean both the telephoto cameras on the S25 Ultra would 50MP zoom lenses, with zoom lengths of 3x and 5x.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Performance
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You'd expect the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra will run on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, given the use of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the Galaxy S24 Ultra. (Indeed, this year's Ultra is the only S24 model to rely exclusive on Qualcomm silicon, as the standard Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus both use the Exynos 2400 system-on-chip in models released outside North America.) Qualcomm has already confirmed we'll be seeing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in October, so the timeline lines up with an early 2025 release for Samsung's phone.
Early Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 benchmarks have already leaked out, and while you should never completely trust unvetted numbers like that, they do paint a rosy picture for the chipset's performance. According to the leaked Geekbench results, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 matches the top score produced by an A18 Bionic-powered iPhone. Of course, those numbers emerged when the iPhone 16 lineup was still just a rumor.
Now that Apple has released the iPhone 16 and we've benchmarked those phones, we have a better idea of what the Galaxy s25 Ultra will be up against. In our testing, the iPhone 16 Pro produced Geekbench single- and multicore scores of 3,400 and 8,341, respectively, while the iPhone 16 Pro Max turned in a similar spread of 3,386 and 8,306. Reportedly, a Galaxy S25 Ultra running a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 produced results of 3,069 and 9.080 — in other words, a lower single-core result, but a much better multicore number. We'd caution you that those numbers come from a phone and and chipset that have yet to be confirmed.
There's talk that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will have a 4.3Ghz prime core, after the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 topped out at 3.4GHz. That's a pretty big jump in power, and it will require Samsung and Qualcomm to figure out how to pack such a chipset into a mobile device without causing it to overheat.
A credible rumor suggests that the Galaxy S25 models will use a mix of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Exynos 2500 chipsets, much like the Galaxy S24 did. If Samsung follows the Galaxy S24 playbook to the letter, that would mean the Galaxy S25 Ultra would likely stick with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 exclusively, while the S25 and S25 Plus models would use the Exynos silicon in some instances. It's a significant distinction as even our Galaxy S24 benchmarks indicated that the Exynos models of the Galaxy S24 lagged slightly behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered phones.
But luckily for us, the Exynos 2500 chip may be more efficient thanks to new architecture. So maybe it appearing in the Ultra model wouldn't be too terrible after all.
We've also heard that Samsung might turn to a MediaTek chip for some Galaxy S25 models. Even if that does happen — and we'd be skeptical that it will barring any further evidence — we'd imaging that the Galaxy S25 Ultra wouldn't be among the models using that silicon.
Another rumor hints that the Galaxy S25 Ultra will gain faster UFS 4.1 speeds that could boost the phone's performance even more. It doesn't sound like it's coming to other S25 models either, which gives more incentive to the S25 Ultra. Not only would it be able to handle on-device AI capabilities, but this has other practical applications — like being able to recording 4K video directly to a hard drive, much like the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
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