All this to say the Galaxy S25 ($800), Galaxy S25+ ($1,000), and Galaxy S25 Ultra ($1,300) are powerful, reliable, and well-equipped smartphones. They're excellent upgrades if you're coming from a three or four-year-old device. They're just not otherwise interesting or exciting.

Case in point: This $900 trade-in offer that you can stack with a $120 price break from Samsung to bring the price of the Galaxy S25 Ultra all the way down to $400. That’s a pre-order offer, and pre-orders end on Thursday, so if you want to be absolutely sure you’re getting an incredible deal on an incredible new phone, time’s running short.

W henever Unpacked comes around in January, Samsung spends a load of time talking about the “Ultra” model, and very little time talking about the base and plus models, individ