AI Overload or Perfect Phone? My S25 Ultra Review

Let’s get real…

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Need-to-knows

🌅 Ultrawide camera jumps from 12MP to 50MP

⚡️ More powerful than the S24 Ultra

💰 Standard RRP is £1,249 / $1,299

🤖 Some cool new AI innovation

I could do one of two things with this Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review. I could reel off all of the AI features that dominated the launch event and that will, undoubtedly, be cast across all of the device’s marketing material.

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Or I could just reveal what it’s like to use as a smartphone. Granted, ‘a smartphone’ in 2025 is intrinsically supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning, but I think we’ve all had our fill of the in-your-face AI stuff.

I even ran a poll, and everything. At the time of writing, these are the latest results:

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As you can see, most people from my audience view smartphone AI features as marginally…