Pre-orders for the Galaxy S25 sequence began final week and are nonetheless underway – open gross sales formally begin on February 7. We already checked out early affords, however now Amazon has tweaked its offers, so let’s have one other look.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely is accessible with a free storage improve (to 512GB) and it contains $80 retailer credit score. The 1TB variant is accessible within the US too, you will get it from Samsung.
The provide for the Samsung Galaxy S25+ is completely different. The 256GB mannequin comes with a $100 present card, so its efficient worth is $900. The 512GB mannequin is $1,020, which is $100 lower than MSRP (and solely $20 greater than the price of a 256GB mannequin, not together with the promotional present card).
The deal for the vanilla Samsung Galaxy S25 is structured the identical manner – get the bottom storage (128GB on this case) with a $100 present card or pay a bit additional ($60 extra) for the following storage tier (256GB, however you don’t get a present card). For the S25+ we’d say you’ll be able to dwell with the bottom storage, for the S25 we’d advocate you skip the present card and get the storage improve.
Is the S25 sequence a bit… boring? As a substitute of spending almost $900 for a 256GB Galaxy S25, you will get a 256GB Galaxy Z Flip6. And for $50 extra you will get a 512GB mannequin. The flip kind issue and the usability of the big cowl show can inject a bit of pleasure into utilizing your telephone that isn’t there with commonplace bar telephones.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 is there for many who subscribe to the “larger show = higher show” ideology. And whereas there isn’t a sheath for an S Pen, this mannequin does help the Bluetooth-enabled S Pens, which the S25 Extremely now not does.
We haven’t checked out Samsung tablets shortly and now is an effective time – the Galaxy Tab S10+ is nearly $300 off. This pill has a 12.4” 120Hz OLED show, a Dimensity 9300+ chipset, expandable storage, DeX and a big 10,090mAh battery with 45W charging.
A less expensive 12.4” mannequin is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE+. This one has a 90Hz IPS LCD as a substitute of an OLED panel and is powered by the Exynos 1380 chipset. It does have DeX, however solely on the pill itself (no exterior video). The battery is similar at 10,090mAh with 45W charging.
You may go smaller – and cheaper – with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE, mainly a ten.9” model of the FE+. The battery is smaller at 8,000mAh (however nonetheless helps 45W charging), every thing else is similar.
And earlier than we neglect – the Tab S slates include an S Pen (magnetically hooked up to their backs) with Bluetooth, air gestures and all. Humorous the way it’s doable on a $350 pill, however not on a $1,300 telephone.
We are going to wrap up with an oddball suggestion – Microsoft has created distilled variations of the DeepSeek R1 AI mannequin that may run domestically on Copilot+ PCs, beginning with ones powered by the Snapdragon X chips. Like Microsoft’s personal Floor Laptop computer, for instance. It’s powered by the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and is available in 13.8” and 15” sizes (each with touchscreens).
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Pre-orders for the Galaxy S25 sequence began final week and are nonetheless underway – open gross sales formally begin on February 7. We already checked out early affords, however now Amazon has tweaked its offers, so let’s have one other look.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely is accessible with a free storage improve (to 512GB) and it contains $80 retailer credit score. The 1TB variant is accessible within the US too, you will get it from Samsung.
The provide for the Samsung Galaxy S25+ is completely different. The 256GB mannequin comes with a $100 present card, so its efficient worth is $900. The 512GB mannequin is $1,020, which is $100 lower than MSRP (and solely $20 greater than the price of a 256GB mannequin, not together with the promotional present card).
The deal for the vanilla Samsung Galaxy S25 is structured the identical manner – get the bottom storage (128GB on this case) with a $100 present card or pay a bit additional ($60 extra) for the following storage tier (256GB, however you don’t get a present card). For the S25+ we’d say you’ll be able to dwell with the bottom storage, for the S25 we’d advocate you skip the present card and get the storage improve.
Is the S25 sequence a bit… boring? As a substitute of spending almost $900 for a 256GB Galaxy S25, you will get a 256GB Galaxy Z Flip6. And for $50 extra you will get a 512GB mannequin. The flip kind issue and the usability of the big cowl show can inject a bit of pleasure into utilizing your telephone that isn’t there with commonplace bar telephones.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 is there for many who subscribe to the “larger show = higher show” ideology. And whereas there isn’t a sheath for an S Pen, this mannequin does help the Bluetooth-enabled S Pens, which the S25 Extremely now not does.
We haven’t checked out Samsung tablets shortly and now is an effective time – the Galaxy Tab S10+ is nearly $300 off. This pill has a 12.4” 120Hz OLED show, a Dimensity 9300+ chipset, expandable storage, DeX and a big 10,090mAh battery with 45W charging.
A less expensive 12.4” mannequin is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE+. This one has a 90Hz IPS LCD as a substitute of an OLED panel and is powered by the Exynos 1380 chipset. It does have DeX, however solely on the pill itself (no exterior video). The battery is similar at 10,090mAh with 45W charging.
You may go smaller – and cheaper – with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE, mainly a ten.9” model of the FE+. The battery is smaller at 8,000mAh (however nonetheless helps 45W charging), every thing else is similar.
And earlier than we neglect – the Tab S slates include an S Pen (magnetically hooked up to their backs) with Bluetooth, air gestures and all. Humorous the way it’s doable on a $350 pill, however not on a $1,300 telephone.
We are going to wrap up with an oddball suggestion – Microsoft has created distilled variations of the DeepSeek R1 AI mannequin that may run domestically on Copilot+ PCs, beginning with ones powered by the Snapdragon X chips. Like Microsoft’s personal Floor Laptop computer, for instance. It’s powered by the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and is available in 13.8” and 15” sizes (each with touchscreens).
We might get a fee from qualifying gross sales.
