Samsung Galaxy S25: price, cameras, AI features, and everything you need to know
We break down everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S25.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 is official, with Samsung having unveiled its latest vanilla flagship alongside the Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra at Galaxy Unpacked on January 22.
We've handled all three new devices – check out our hands-on Samsung Galaxy S25 review, hands-on Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus review, and full Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review for our first impressions – but in this guide, we’ve rounded up the key things you need to know about the base models, specifically.
Below, you’ll find all the latest confirmed information surrounding the Galaxy S25’s price, release date, design, cameras, features, and much more.
Key information
- Starts at $799 / £799 / AU$1,399
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset
- New 12GB RAM capacity
- Storage options up to 512GB (in the UK and Australia)
- 7% thinner frame
- Bolder camera lenses
- Larger vapor cooling chamber
- 4,000mah battery for the base model
- 4,900mAh battery for the Plus
- Camera array unchanged from the Galaxy S24
- Next-gen ProVisual image engine
- New Galaxy AI tools including Audio Eraser
- Navy, Icy Blue, Silver Shadow, and Mint color options
Samsung Galaxy S25: price and release date
- Shipping began on February 7
- Base model starts at $799 / £799 / AU$1,399
- Plus starts at $999 / £999 / AU$1,699
The Samsung Galaxy S25 was unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked on January 22 and began shipping on February 7. For the latest offers, check out our dedicated Samsung Galaxy S25 deals page.
Depending on your region, the phone comes in either 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB storage configurations, and every variant comes with 12GB RAM.
Pricing for the Galaxy S25 is as follows:
The Galaxy S25 Plus ships in 256GB or 512GB storage configurations across the world, and is priced as follows:
Samsung Galaxy S25: specs
Samsung Galaxy S25: design and display
- New camera ring design
- 7% thinner frame
- Navy, Icy Blue, Silver Shadow, and Mint colors
- 6.2-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen for the base model
- 6.7-inch QHD+ AMOLED screen for the Plus
At first glance, the Galaxy S25 looks almost identical to the Galaxy S24, but there are some subtle differences. For starters, the camera rings on the back of the phone are much bolder than before – they’re almost Galaxy Z Fold 6-like in appearance, and this design cue is shared across the entire Galaxy S25 range.
The Galaxy S25 is also 7% thinner and 5g lighter than its predecessor, measuring 146.9 x 70.5 x 7.2mm and weighing 162g. The Plus, meanwhile, measures 158.4 x 75.8 x 7.3mm and weighs 190g, meaning it too is thinner and lighter than the Galaxy S24 Plus.
Color options for both models include Navy, Icy Blue, Silver Shadow, and Mint, and both have an IP68 rating for water and dust resistance.
As for the Galaxy S25’s display, it’s the same 6.2-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen as before, which has a variable refresh rate of 1-120Hz and a peak brightness of 2,600 nits.
Significantly, the larger Plus model gets a 6.7-inch QHD+ AMOLED screen this year, and benefits from Samsung’s new ProScaler display technology, which supposedly delivers a 40% improvement in image quality courtesy of some neat AI image processing. The 6.9-inch Ultra boasts this new display technology, too, bringing more parity between Samsung’s largest Galaxy models.
Samsung Galaxy S25: cameras
- 50MP main, 12MP ultra-wide, 10MP telephoto cameras
- 12MP selfie camera
- New Virtual Aperture feature and LOG recording
The Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus share the same three rear cameras: a 50MP main lens (f/1.8), a 12MP ultra-wide lens (f/2.2), and a 10MP telephoto camera (f/2.4) lens with 3x optical zoom. On the front, both phones get a 12MP camera (f/2.2).
All four cameras are unchanged versus the cameras on the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus, though both new phones are capable of shooting in LOG (where their predecessors weren’t) and 10-bit HDR recording is now applied by default.
For a supposedly DSLR-like experience on mobile, the Galaxy S25 series also introduces depth-of-field control with Virtual Aperture, integrated into Expert RAW15. Professional photographers and video editors, then, have a lot to look forward to this year.
Samsung Galaxy S25: performance and software
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset
- Larger vapor cooling chamber
- 12GB of RAM
- New Galaxy AI features including Audio Eraser
- 4,000mAh battery for the base model
- 4,900mAh battery for the Plus
The headline feature of the Galaxy 25 is its chipset: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy. As with last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy chipset, this SoC is an overclocked version of the same Snapdragon 8 Elite you’ll find powering other top-end Android phones like the OnePlus 13 and Honor Magic 7 Pro. Supposedly, then, the Galaxy S25 will be a slightly more powerful device than its similarly-specced rivals.
For the first time in a base-model Galaxy phone, this new chipset is joined by 12GB of RAM, meaning the Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus are just as powerful on paper as the S25 Ultra (which also uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and has 12GB of RAM).
There’s a larger vapor cooling chamber for both models, which should result in better heat efficiency while gaming, and the phones’ minimum rated battery capacities are slightly higher, at 3,885mAh for the Galaxy S25 and 4,755mAh for Galaxy S25 Plus (Samsung is marketing the average capacities as 4,000mAh and 4,900mAh , respectively).
Of course, with great(er) power comes great(er) Galaxy AI features. The Galaxy S25 series introduces several new software tricks, including Now Brief – a personalized daily briefing, delivered by Galaxy AI, that contains various handy stats like today’s weather and your personal Energy score. You can receive your daily Now Brief at any time of day, and if you choose to go for a later notification, you’ll get a recap of your “memorable moments” and an overview of how you performed against your daily activity goal.
Then there’s Audio Eraser, which is an AI-based video editing tool that – you guessed it – lets you remove unwanted audio from video clips. Galaxy AI can suggest which audio to remove, or you can pick and choose certain snippets yourself.
Samsung has also upgraded its Sketch to Image feature with text and voice input. You can now use real pictures as artistic inspiration, and even superimpose your real pictures onto artistic backgrounds. In addition, Sketch to Image will now simply function more quickly than before, which is something you can expect from all of Samsung’s existing Galaxy AI features on the Galaxy S25 series.
Some of these software features will remain exclusive to the Galaxy S25, while others will ship as part of One UI 7 (and therefore become available to other phones at a later date).
Samsung Galaxy S25: my early verdict
As for whether the Galaxy S25 marks a monumental upgrade over the Galaxy S24, the answer is a resounding ‘no’. The phones’ designs, cameras, and displays (the Plus notwithstanding) are almost identical, and I suspect that you’re only going to notice the S25’s significant on-paper jump in performance if you’re an avid mobile gamer or photographer.
That said, the upgrades on offer here aren’t inconsequential, especially in the software department. Working in tandem with the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, the S25’s new 12GB RAM capacity should help all of Samsung’s new and existing Galaxy AI features run super smoothly – perhaps more smoothly than any other AI features on the market – and the made improvements to the phone’s size and weight (however small) are welcome.
Personally, I’m a fan of the new camera ring design, and it’s nice to see Samsung applying a consistent design philosophy across the Galaxy line. The new colors are nicer than last year’s, too, which sounds silly, but it’s important (just look at that Navy shade!).
