It’s been over eight years since the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery disaster, yet we’re still dealing with the aftereffects on the new Galaxy S25 series. For whatever reason, Samsung is reluctant to push the envelope with battery capacities and charging speeds.

The Galaxy S25 Ultra is shaping out to be a beast after we’ve put it through some testing. Not only does it have the brightest screen we’ve tested in a Samsung phone to date, but it just achieved a record-setting mark for battery life among Samsung phones we’ve tested — and all other phone releases this year can’t afford to come up short.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra does all of the right things you want from a high-end smartphone, but its redesign annoys me.