With an expected launch in January 2025, Samsung’s Galaxy S family will again set the smartphone tone for the first half of the year. It looks like Samsung is preparing a significant update for the S25 family in general and the Galaxy S25 Ultra in particular. Why else would you give it the internal codename of “paradigm”?

In our iPhone 16 Pro benchmark testing, the newest Apple flagship nabbed a single-core score of 3,386 in Geekbench, which is higher than both the OnePlus 13 and the S25 Ultra. However, the multi-core score was lower, hitting 8,306.

The S25 Ultra is also rumoured to have a similar external design as the S24 Ultra model, but with rounded sides, and could potentially have upgraded health and monitoring features for users who own the Samsung Galaxy Ring.