Samsung’s Galaxy S25 sequence has lengthy been rumored to reach with a value hike – in Europe, in Korea, and in India. At the moment a brand new report from Samsung’s residence of Korea particulars issues a bit additional. It is excellent news and unhealthy information.
The unhealthy information is {that a} value hike is certainly coming, at the very least in Korea. The excellent news is that it’s going to apparently solely apply to the fashions with 512GB of storage. The 256GB variations may have the identical launch value as their predecessors.
The precise stage of the value hike is even higher information because it’s rumored to be KRW 15,400, which on the present trade charges interprets into roughly $10 or €10. If that is what’s going to occur internationally (and that is undoubtedly an enormous “if”), we’re positive not lots of people will truly thoughts.
And in case you’re pondering of selecting up a Galaxy S25 as quickly as attainable, Samsung is rumored to allow you to get the 512GB mannequin for the value of the 256GB one, like final 12 months, for a restricted time, through which case the value hike merely will not affect you in any respect.
Whereas Samsung is paying Qualcomm extra for the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset that will likely be utilized in all three S25 fashions than it will have price it to make use of the Exynos 2500 as an alternative, the latter’s yield points have compelled it to go along with Qualcomm. However the Korean firm has apparently determined to eat the associated fee distinction itself, in service of popularizing AI smartphones – and never seeing any big drops in shipments, after all.
Remember the fact that even when that is true it solely applies to the Korean market and it is unclear whether or not Samsung will select to go along with the identical technique elsewhere. The Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Extremely are getting official on January 22, and the long-rumored Galaxy S25 Slim would possibly be part of them, though it is most likely solely going to truly turn into out there later within the 12 months.
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