The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is finally here, and it's a complicated beast to review. If I focused solely on its features – the screen, speakers, camera, battery life – you'd walk away thinking it's a top-tier phone. But that's not the whole story. There's crucial context, and ignoring it would paint an incomplete picture. So, let's unpack that context first, then dive into the review.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is a powerhouse of features, so many that it can feel overwhelming. In this post I’m going to break down 17 tips and tricks to help you unlock the full potential of your device. From basic Android navigation to more advanced features, hopefully there’s something interesting for everyone.

Now that I have the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in hand I have been taking quite a few photos, trying to dig deep into how well this years setup performs. In this post, I’ll do my best to break it all down. Let’s start out with the primary camera.

You may not realize it, but I’ve been using the Galaxy S23 Ultra for a couple of years now. In many of my videos, that phone has provided the B-Roll and/or the thumbnail admirably. Now, it’s finally time to move on as my brand new S25 Ultra has finally arrived! I snagged the online exclusive Jade color, and in this video, I'm unboxing it and sharing my initial thoughts.

It's happened again. Another Pixel Fold, another problem. This time, it's not the screen... but it's still enough to make me question my loyalty to Google's foldables. Third time's the charm? Let's just say I'm not feeling very charmed right now.

At time of writing, my Galaxy S25 Ultra is in route to my house and is set to be delivered tomorrow. That’s right, despite the fact that the new S25 phones are like 95% the same as last years, I bought one. Maybe I’m a sucker. To be fair, we do have a new vapor chamber for that new SOC, a new ultrawide camera, gorilla glass armor 2 and more RAM for the lower end models and.. uh.. I guess that’s actually about it.

One of the earliest pioneers of smartwatches is apparently making a surprising Eric Migicovsky, one of the founders of the original Pebble smartwatch, recently announced plans to revive the brand as well the news that PebbleOS was going Open Source.

Samsung did something pretty cool at their Galaxy Unpacked event for the S25 series. They had me fully convinced the show was over before pulling off an honest to god, “but wait, there’s more!” We weren’t sure whether or not we’d see the long rumored Galaxy S25 Slim at this event, with the rumored launch being later this year, but boy did we ever. Samsung showed this neat little animation that showed off some of the internal components, emphasizing the engineering that has gone into the phone.

As part of my job as a full-time tech YouTuber I spend a lot of time reading comments. Probably too much time, if I’m honest. Generally speaking, when I read my comments I end up learning something about other people’s perspectives and seeing how people react to my work helps me be better at my job. That being said, I have to admit that sometimes reading the comments can be a bit annoying. As hard as I try to keep in mind that most things I’m reading are highly subjective and therefore no one is wrong there is still that human part of me that thinks “Oh my god, you are just so wrong about this.” Most recently, this has been with AI.

Just the other day Samsung held their Galaxy Unpacked event to unveil the S25 series of devices. After live streaming that event, I posted a thorough breakdown of most everything that was announced at that event, but there was one tiny detail that I left out because I thought it might be fun to look at one its own. It’s something that went by so quickly that most people probably didn’t even see it..

We are once again talking about the Oppo Find N5 and we are once again doing so with the aid of Chinese social media website, Weibo. Today, we’re looking at a post from a bit of a strange source. They apparently come from an Automotive Influencer called Chen Zhen who has 9.6M followers. How they ended up with the phone is hard to say, but one might assume that Oppo arranged such a thing to continue building hype. Not a terrible strategy.

As we inch closer and closer to the announcement of the OnePlus Open 2, it’s clear that OnePlus hasn’t yet forgotten about the original. Update 15.0.0.410 is now live in North America, bringing with it quite a few nice enhancements.