Review of new galaxy S25 ultra

[KkayLangford]

One of the easiest phones to operate and use to stream apps and mirror screen or use along with your other smart devices. Lot of data storage and memory. Very fast web browsing and high performance camera. It's been my favorite phone so far. 

[GusB]

I'm pleased with mine too. What did you have before S25?

[PaulM1]

That's an excellent appraisal of the awesome S25 Ultra, @KkayLangford . Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. Which colour and storage variant did you get?

[JAMES4578]

@KkayLangford   High praise, glads you are happy with the S25 Ultra

[BandOfBrothers]

Hello 👋 @KkayLangford  and Welcome to the Samsung Community Forum.

It is definitely a powerful device 😎 

[Ferenc75]

Happy to see Happy people and comments. Congrats for your new device 👏 😀

[Jack-1952]

I have the SilverBlue S25 Ultra on order and it will arrive Thursday.
I traded in my S23 Ultra for the 1TB storage S25 Ultra for same price as the 512GB  one as Samsung didn't have a SilverBlue with 512GB in stock. Can't wait to get it as I really liked my old S23 Ultra one.... so soaking up all the reviews and info on the new one.

[ketan golatkar]

Think twice before buying the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra!

I upgraded from an iPhone, expecting a premium experience, but within just two days, the S Pen stopped working. I had to visit the service center, where they acknowledged the issue and processed a replacement under the DOA scheme.

What’s shocking is that it’s been over two weeks, and Samsung has failed to provide me with a new phone — all because my preferred color (Jet Black or Titanium Black) is ‘unavailable.’ Imagine paying a premium for a flagship device, only to be stuck without it for this long, due to something as trivial as color stock.

This is not the kind of experience I expected from a top-tier brand like Samsung. If this is their after-sales service, I’m seriously reconsidering my switch from Apple. A phone at this price point should work flawlessly, and service should be seamless. Sadly, that’s far from what I’ve experienced.

#SamsungS25Ultra #DisappointedCustomer #SamsungSupport #ThinkBeforeYouBuy #GalaxyS25Ultra

[Members_jNsbz3f]

Review of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra (1 TB):

Status: Returned the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra back to Samsung, now money back.

Reason: 

1. In general the S-Pen is very important for many users and can be used for almost everything.

2. But in the S25 Ultra there is no BlueTooth S-Pen anymore. It is further impossible to use any external  (e.g. to buy from Samsung) BlueTooth S-Pen either because some of the necessary BlueTooth hardware parts have been completely removed in this S25 Ultra. So not taking selfie photos using the S-Pen anymore. Also e.g. the S-Pen Pro can not be used anymore with the S25 Ultra. All this is the most important reason of returning the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. 

2. The lighter current S25 Ultra S-Pen without BlueTooth is not writing as robust as the heavier BlueTooth S-Pen. This is a minor issue.

3. No functionality anymore of opening the (Samsung) phone case to snooze e.g. an alarm (as far is known at this moment).

4. No functionality anymore of seeing the time on the (Samsung) phone case (as far is known at this moment).

5. No other interesting improvements at all, nothing special, it has been reduced to just some ordinary mobile telephone now.

6. Result: Used the Note 3, Note 8, Note 9, S22 Ultra, S23 Ultra, S24 Ultra and now tried the S25 Ultra. So went back to my S24 Ultra  (supported until 2031) as that has all that functionality and expect to keep using that until a better Samsung mobile telephone e.g. S26 Ultra or higher is released which has those necessary functionalities back again, especially getting the BlueTooth S-Pen functionality back.

All together the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra went backwards instead of forward.

(as a side note FYI: do not rely on the Samsung Cloud to restore your Samsung telephone (e.g. S24) back to its complete original state even if one did a full backup of e.g. the S24 before all this. E.g. currently the 'home screen and wallpaper' option is not restored from the Samsung Cloud (has been reported as an error to Samsung). Also doing a backup of your Samsung 'Gallery' app to Google Drive does only do a backup (it is visible then in the Google 'Photos' app, but no way to get all entries there back to the Samsung 'Gallery' app afterwards), but thus no restore from 'Google Drive' or Google 'Photos' back to the Samsung 'Gallery' app afterwards is possible. Also the telephone SIM call list loses 'contact' information, so one sees only telephone numbers, not contact names for many entries. So all this works only OK and as it should if using instead the Samsung 'Smart Switch' app and using 2 mobile devices to transfer between. So if you did first a factory reset of e.g. the S25 Ultra and then sending the S25 Ultra back and then only afterwards trying to use only the Samsung Cloud to get all the information restored back on the S24 Ultra showed to be impossible. Not sure why this Samsung Cloud transfer (including the Samsung 'Gallery' app store/restore) has not been made without errors in all those years that it has been available).