The Galaxy S25 Ultra is Samsung's top-end phone in 2025. It's set apart from its Galaxy S25 siblings with its four cameras, giant 6.9-inch display, stronger glass screen, and included S Pen stylus.

Smartphones Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Review: A Powerful Smartphone That’s a Little Boring The design tweaks are nice, but that's not a reason to upgrade. Neither is a bunch of new AI tricks.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra perfectly embodies this. Now, to be clear, the Galaxy S25 Ultra is certainly a great phone — maybe the best.

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?

Under the hood, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra sports a new Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite 8 for Galaxy chipset with six cores at 3.53GHz and two cores at 4.47GHz running on the latest Android 15 OS.

Samsung rates the 5,000mAh battery in the S25 Ultra for 31 hours of video playback. While I couldn't quite replicate that, I was satisfied with the results I got in my testing.