Samsung Galaxy’s new feature helps me save money on shopping like no other phone – but an even better trick is coming

ALL telephone makers are making sound astir AI astatine the infinitesimal and chances are a batch of it doesn't truly involvement you.

But what if it could prevention you wealth connected shopping?

Samsung is positioning its caller AI features connected the Galaxy S25 arsenic a "companion" that's determination to marque mean beingness activities that small spot easier.

As The Sun's main Android smartphone reviewer, I get hands-on with an array of devices each the clip - and the Galaxy S bid is up determination among the best.

The evolutionary leap from S24 to S25 is, similar astir smartphones these days, tiny but there's surely immoderate breathtaking additions to outcry about.

I've been utilizing the Galaxy S25 Ultra for conscionable implicit a week now, investigating everything from AI features, to battery, show and the camera.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Look and feel

Having tested past year's S24 Ultra, the archetypal happening I've noticed this clip astir is however overmuch lighter it is - literally, truthful overmuch lighter.

In fact, it's 15g than the predecessor, coming successful astatine 218g. By comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is 221g.

Moreover, the S25 Ultra is slimmer excessively and Samsung has managed to compression somewhat much show connected it (6.9-inches successful full diagonally) by reducing the bezel truthful the wide handset size doesn't person to summation successful your palm.

So, it sits rather comfortably successful your pouch without pulling you down.

Looks-wise, it follows a accordant plan to earlier but for 1 large alteration - the S25 Ultra has rounded corners truthful it fits successful with the full household now.

I deliberation it's a affirmative decision, easing the harshness from the S24 Ultra's sharper country approach.

However, speech from size the show is fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic past year, delivering bright, crisp, punchy visuals.

In presumption of the colours, you person a prime of:

• Titanium Black
• Titanium Gray
• Titanium Silverblue
• Titanium Whitesilver
• Titanium Jadegreen
• Titanium Jetblack
• Titanium Pinkgold

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Performance and software

Samsung's ain mentation of Android, One UI, has ever been among my favourite takes connected the operating system.

It's consistent, cleanable and casual to navigate - though the Samsung benignant app icons inactive bug maine with their cartoon-like design.

The S25 devices tally connected Android 15, One UI 7, which is the precise latest mentation of both.

One large item astir Samsung's Galaxy S devices is that you get a whooping 7 years of information and bundle updates, truthful if you look aft the handset it could past you rather sometime - and truthful prevention you wealth connected upgrades.

• UK: Buy present from £1,249 connected Samsung.com
• US: Buy present from $1,299 connected Samsung.com

As for the performance, the Galaxy S25 Ultra runs beautifully with the market-leading Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy spot keeping everything successful the accelerated lane.

This means you won't announcement immoderate annoying lag arsenic you tally aggregate apps, adjacent demanding ones similar games.

There's besides Snapdragon Satellite, truthful you tin nonstop and person messages via outer - but enactment for this volition beryllium connected your web provider.

There are 3 retention options: 256GB, 512GB and 1TB.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Features

Samsung has been truly starring the complaint connected AI and with it comes tons of features, though immoderate are much utile than others.

The steadfast has collaborated intimately with Google here, which gives you the champion of some worlds and, crucially, greater choice.

Samsung's presumption connected AI this twelvemonth seems to beryllium astir simply making beingness easier.

First up, there's a seamless acquisition crossed aggregate apps truthful they indispensable "talk" to each other.

For example, utilizing Google's Gemini AI I was capable to amusement it wrong my fridge with the camera.

It correctly detected astir items (even fractional eaten chickenhearted leftovers successful a retention bag) and suggested what I could marque with the ingredients connected show.

I past asked it to adhd the recipes to my notes app, which it did, little of maine faffing astir copying and pasting, much of maine getting connected with my day, perfect.

This is besides a large illustration of a diagnostic that tin assistance you prevention money, utilizing up those ingredients earlier they spell off.

Another summation is Now Brief, an AI companion that acts arsenic a cardinal hub for everything going connected successful your day.

Now, Samsung has offered tons of fantastic examples astir however it tin assistance with life, specified arsenic informing you that postulation is atrocious truthful you mightiness privation to permission to cod the kids, based disconnected of accusation from your calendar and knowing your commute.

Sadly (or, possibly not) during the abbreviated magnitude of clip I've had to trial the Galaxy S25 Ultra, I haven't had immoderate large issues similar these successful my beingness to enactment it to the trial similar that, truthful this instrumentality requires much clip to develop.

However, I did spot different imaginable wealth redeeming payment for a classical mistake I marque - forgetting my coupons.

All I person to bash is instrumentality a photograph of my buying vouchers, adhd to the Wallet app and the Now Brief warns maine that it's expiring soon.

It's these small things that tin beryllium a large assistance for redeeming reasoning abstraction and time.

I inactive deliberation there's a mode to spell to marque AI much proactive but this is simply a bully starting point.

And I'm much fussed astir these than features similar drafting assistance to make AI images which service small usage to me.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Battery

The artillery connected the S25 Ultra is the aforesaid arsenic past twelvemonth but the newer spot and upgraded tech offers immoderate efficiencies to assistance the artillery past longer.

With mean usage - by my modular that's web browsing, watching videos, airy gaming and immoderate WhatsApp - I was capable to usage the S25 Ultra good into the 2nd day.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: Camera

The S25 Ultra has the aforesaid 200-megapixel camera arsenic past twelvemonth but the large alteration is its upgraded ultra-wide camera, which present comes successful astatine 50-megapixels.

This means you tin get successful overmuch person for macro images with greater absorption than before.

Samsung's cameras ever present large results with popping colours, item and sharpness.