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TL;DR
- Samsung’s Galaxy S25 collection is predicted to launch in late January.
- Leaks have already urged that this 12 months Samsung might introduce a 16GB RAM tier.
- Today’s supply claims that received’t be the case, and we’ll be caught at 12GB once more.
What higher method might there probably to begin the brand new 12 months off than with the following entries in one among our favourite smartphone households? Samsung’s subsequent Galaxy Unpacked occasion has been tipped for January 22, and we’re anticipating to see the corporate introduce its Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra flagships. Even with these telephones solely about one other month away, we’ve nonetheless been making an attempt to resolve simply what to anticipate from their {hardware}. Sometimes, although, it looks like we’re chasing a shifting goal, and now the most recent supply to aim to supply a bit of perception is making us rethink another latest claims.
Every time Samsung is on the point of launch a brand new wave of smartphones, we sit up for studying concerning the configuration choices that will likely be made out there. While you don’t actually get a alternative in the case of components just like the cellphone’s processor (except you’re importing from overseas), we often anticipate to have a handful of choices in the case of how a lot storage a cellphone will likely be outfitted with, and generally even the quantity of RAM, as nicely. And each time a brand new technology is popping out, we cross our fingers that we’ll get a bit of extra on each ends.
Earlier this month we heard a rumor a few attainable RAM improve for the Ultra mannequin this time round, with Samsung providing a 16GB RAM Galaxy S25 Ultra at its 512GB and 1TB storage tiers. But now leaker Abhishek Yadav has been posting to X with the declare that whereas all three S25 sizes may have the choice for 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB storage, all of those configurations will likely be outfitted with simply 12GB of RAM — no 16GB choice to be discovered. For the smallest Galaxy S25, there could possibly be a further 128GB storage degree — additionally capped at 12GB RAM.
Now, it’s attainable that this data could possibly be incomplete, because the supply seems to be information for {hardware} coming to India. And whereas it could be attainable that 16GB RAM will sit that {hardware} out, however be out there, for example, on the S25 Ultra within the US, this supply affords no proof for such a break up.
If this certainly finally ends up being true, that’s going to be a little bit of a bummer for Galaxy followers who had been hoping for a extra pronounced improve with subsequent 12 months’s fashions. Would you push again you subsequent Galaxy buy when you couldn’t purchase an S25 with 16GB of RAM, holding out hope that the S26 will high it? Make you case for ready down within the feedback.
