The Korean Smartphone giant did announce the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra at Unpacked, but we are still a few weeks short of its retail deployment. Even Pakistan is about to welcome this phone alongside the vanilla Galaxy S25, so we are pretty excited. Its pre-orders have begun in the country, as they have in the rest of the world.
Before you can buy and experience the S25 Ultra hands-on, we still need to figure out if this phone is worth the plunge over the old S24 Ultra because, so far, all it has shown is a bunch of software upgrades and very few hardware changes. The leaker Ice Universe reported some information that convinced us the S25 Ultra might be worth an upgrade after all.
Put the software and hardware changes on the back burner for a second, and let’s talk about its display first. S25 Ultra uses the same M13 OLED display as the old S24 Ultra — that’s true. Not even the 2600 nits brightness level has changed. Still, Samsung did fix a very important display issue with this year’s Ultra.
Ice Universe says the Samsung latest flagship model has fixed the display’s grainy effect that was found in the S24 Ultra at dim brightness levels. This was noticed by the NoteBookCheck back in the day, as S24 Ultra bought the first-ever anti-reflective coating.
The leaker has posted an image on X with the S24 Ultra posing against the new S25 Ultra, Oppo Find X8, and OnePlus 13 to show you the difference between their dimly lit screens. Against the rest, the grainy S24 Ultra is quite off-putting. It does impact the visual fidelity of its AMOLED.
The image also shows how S25 Ultra fixed the issue. Another change that was noticed by the leaker was an inapt transition of colors on the S24 Ultra. You could see the gradient lines from one color to the next, which is unacceptable at the flagship level.
S25 Ultra smoothly transitions from one color to the next without noticeable gradient lines, so that’s another win for the new device. Ceramic Gorilla Glass Armor 2 with new anti-reflective seems to be more durable with S25 Ultra. Seeing that the Samsung S24 Ultra's anti-reflective coating started to peel off after 6-months of regular use, it seems the S25 Ultra is worth the upgrade after all, as far as the display is concerned.
You can pre-order the Galaxy S25 Ultra before 20th February in Pakistan with an early bird promotion for its 12/512GB option, costing only Rs 439,999/-.
