Samsung S25 Ultra is getting worse

[drugdoubles]

I provide that I have had every Samsung flagship since the Galaxy S3 and I have not had one instance of hardware failure. Sure some of their devices of the past have had poor software (TouchWiz sucked) and some were cheap and plasticky albeit durable and able to swap batteries easily. The S25 Ultra is every bit as quality of a build as my iPhone 16PM, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, or OnePlus 13 that I just got in today. I have hands on experience with almost every flagship in the US in the last 15+ years I don't need to base my thoughts on what some torture test which goes to a ridiculous extreme on a YouTube channel provides or an unsubstantiated assertion of planned obsolesence by Samsung which your wiki link defining planned obsolesence did not substantiate. Truth is all manufacturers do this to a degree. You conveniently forget Apple releasing software updates to purposely slow down older phones. Facts...any manufacturer that puts a shelf life on support of a phone participates in planned obsolesence and that is justifiable as the hardware reaches a point that it just doesn't perform anymore to a level required by the evolution of apps and software these devices run and the network technology implemented by carriers. But Apple purposely slowing down their phones and degrading battery life thru updates is far more egregious than anything Samsung has been accused of. I think this all leads back to being critical of glue holding on the camera rings. I couldn't care less about that.View attachment 2486000View attachment 2486001

Accuse only right?

 

[rockitdog]

Galaxy phones are good. iPhones are good. Both phones have issues but also many positives. We all have personal preference and make our choices accordingly. It's 2025, I can't believe we still have these conversations.

Right on man!

 

[aggie99]

Galaxy phones are good. iPhones are good. Both phones have issues but also many positives. We all have personal preference and make our choices accordingly. It's 2025, I can't believe we still have these conversations.

I think it's likely the same poster creating these threads, likely previously banned, and re-joining under different usernames.

Also I wish I had personal preference. I'd like to stick with just one of them 😄

 

[Harthag]

I think it's likely the same poster creating these threads, likely previously banned, and re-joining under different usernames.

Also I wish I had personal preference. I'd like to stick with just one of them 😄

Also using the OP13 and S25U side by side. Are you keeping both phones? I still can't find a glass screen protector for the OP13 due to the slightly curved screen. Why can't all of these companies just kill this awful design choice. I hope the OP14 later this year will have a completely flat screen.

 

[jakey rolling]

Accuse only right?

Is that your version of "cope"? I'm not sure what kind of response you would expect to that... um.. sentence... but "Accuse only" was how you started this entire thread. No sense in complaining about having to eat your own dog food now.

You seem to be incredibly offended that people might dare to point out that Apple isn't exactly perfect and that there may be people who actually (*gasp*) like their Samsung phones. Sorry that you had learn this way, dude. It's tough, I know.

 

[noobinator]

Also I wish I had personal preference. I'd like to stick with just one of them 😄

I definitely have a preference - to have like 10 phones at once hitting every single itch I have related to phone tech. 😭

Honestly if it was up to me and I was rich, I'd have every phone released from the major and semi-major manufacturers. Each morning I'd wake up and decide which to use that day. One can dream lol

 

[yui4]

Also I wish I had personal preference. I'd like to stick with just one of them 😄

It would be so much easier to be fixed on 1 brand. Sadly I’m like a magpie and like anything shiny and new (tech in my case)

 

[aggie99]

Also using the OP13 and S25U side by side. Are you keeping both phones? I still can't find a glass screen protector for the OP13 due to the slightly curved screen. Why can't all of these companies just kill this awful design choice. I hope the OP14 later this year will have a completely flat screen.

Man, that's a tough one. So far I love the 13. The battery life is great and the fast charging is just amazing. I first experienced the crazy charging speeds with the OnePlus Open and it really is something that is hard to give up once you are used to it. But to be honest, I'm with you on this one, I can't stand the curved screen and lack of accessories that are available for Oneplus devices. I'm rolling without a screen protector at the moment and I just won't do film type protectors. Camera seems really nice in my very limited use. I couldn't see myself giving up my S25U for it but maybe my 9 Pro XL as it has mostly been collecting dust. Have a little bit to decide but can't see myself keeping the 13 without selling off one of my others.

 

[Harthag]

Man, that's a tough one. So far I love the 13. The battery life is great and the fast charging is just amazing. I first experienced the crazy charging speeds with the OnePlus Open and it really is something that is hard to give up once you are used to it. But to be honest, I'm with you on this one, I can't stand the curved screen and lack of accessories that are available for Oneplus devices. I'm rolling without a screen protector at the moment and I just won't do film type protectors. Camera seems really nice in my very limited use. I couldn't see myself giving up my S25U for it but maybe my 9 Pro XL as it has mostly been collecting dust. Have a little bit to decide but can't see myself keeping the 13 without selling off one of my others.

It took 3 weeks for OP to send me the official MagSafe case and I paid for "priority" shipping. Only reason I bought the phone is because I have Best Buy Total which covers any issues. Funny, I sold my Pixel 9 Pro XL and kept the OP13, and now may be selling it shortly.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Apple Intelligence is not a must, we can just turn on a ChatGPT app to solve it

Apple Intelligence isn't entirely equivalent to something like ChatGPT. It's incorporated throughout iOS and its apps, able to see what you're doing, and provide an AI assist to those tasks (or at least that's the goal, not well-realized yet). ChatGPT doesn't have the same level of integration into iOS, and instead it's more of a separate, standalone question-and-answer thing, as well as all the other things it can do (like code development) which have no real relevance to the kinds of things for which Apple Intelligence has been designed. One of Apple's supposed goals is to eventually give Siri the same abilities to answer questions, be a research assistant, etc. as ChatGPT and other LLMs, but that's sort of a major subset of what Apple Intelligence is supposed to eventually do.

 

[drugdoubles]

Apple Intelligence isn't entirely equivalent to something like ChatGPT. It's incorporated throughout iOS and its apps, able to see what you're doing, and provide an AI assist to those tasks (or at least that's the goal, not well-realized yet). ChatGPT doesn't have the same level of integration into iOS, and instead it's more of a separate, standalone question-and-answer thing, as well as all the other things it can do (like code development) which have no real relevance to the kinds of things for which Apple Intelligence has been designed. One of Apple's supposed goals is to eventually give Siri the same abilities to answer questions, be a research assistant, etc. as ChatGPT and other LLMs, but that's sort of a major subset of what Apple Intelligence is supposed to eventually do.

Except the ChatGPT part, Apple doesn’t know how to make AI at all, Siri is still like zero IQ comparing to ChatGPT

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Except the ChatGPT part, Apple doesn’t know how to make AI at all, Siri is still like zero IQ comparing to ChatGPT

It's true that Siri is currently one of the worst, if not the worst, "intelligent assistant" from any tech company, though some people find it's still able to handle the kinds of simple requests it was originally designed to do almost 15 years ago, while other people have exactly the opposite experience. I'm concerned that whatever Apple comes up with to boost its abilities to rival AIs like ChatGPT, it might be a kind of Disneyfied version, a simplified and sanitized AI that "thinks" at the intellectual level of one step above an emoji.

 

[drugdoubles]

It's true that Siri is currently one of the worst, if not the worst, "intelligent assistant" from any tech company, though some people find it's still able to handle the kinds of simple requests it was originally designed to do almost 15 years ago, while other people have exactly the opposite experience. I'm concerned that whatever Apple comes up with to boost its abilities to rival AIs like ChatGPT, it might be a kind of Disneyfied version, a simplified and sanitized AI that "thinks" at the intellectual level of one step above an emoji.

Apple is too far behind for AI, all useful stuff in Apple intelligence is from Chargpt.

 

[aggie99]

It took 3 weeks for OP to send me the official MagSafe case and I paid for "priority" shipping. Only reason I bought the phone is because I have Best Buy Total which covers any issues. Funny, I sold my Pixel 9 Pro XL and kept the OP13, and now may be selling it shortly.

Yeah honestly its a really good device and if I didn't have an S25U or Pixel 9 Pro XL I would likely be 100% happy with it, but I have it boxed up and ready to send back. Great device and great value for just about anyone but I don't see any scenario where I'd say that I'd want to use it over my S25U or even my Pixel.

 

[mjschabow]

My S25 Ultra keeps getting better!

 

[Weaselboy]

Moderator Note:

Just going in circles here. Thread closed.