The iPhone-like Galaxy S25 Extremely goes to get humiliated by Honor… as soon as once more

What’s “dangerous” is that Samsung can be reportedly utilizing the identical battery capability for the S25 Extremely as its predecessor. The battery from the Galaxy S24 Extremely has a rated capability of 4,855 mAh, which matches the capability listed for the Galaxy S25 Extremely battery in some latest certification findings.This may help the rumor that the Galaxy S25 Extremely will function a slimmer design. If Samsung certainly determined to make the 2025 flagship thinner and extra streamlined, there may not have been sufficient area to accommodate a bigger battery pack.

Cannot Samsung simply… keep away from making the S25 Extremely thinner? It isn’t just like the Korean firm is pressured to take action, proper?

Improper.

And, as if issues weren’t dangerous sufficient already, it is due to Apple. It seems that Apple is pushing the pattern for slimmer telephones in 2025.

If the rumors develop into true, and there are many these, we simply may get one thing known as iPhone 17 SlimUltraAir. Regardless of the moniker, it will likely be completely different from the remainder of its siblings within the iPhone 17 lineup in a method: it will likely be super-thin. No person is aware of how a lot precisely, however it’s doable that we get a ~5mm thick iPhone in 2025.

I will not be discussing whether or not super-slim telephones are nice or not: my colleague Daniel delved into the matter lately and produced this positive piece:

As a substitute, I am specializing in the battery of the Galaxy S25 Extremely and the methods it’s going to make it doable for a sure Far East firm by the title of Honor to obliterate Samsung’s 2025 champion.

The intelligent freezer experiment

I can not assist however recall this one experiment that concerned simply three key components:
A well-liked YouTube vlogger performed a freezing endurance check, pitting the Honor Magic 6 Professional in opposition to the Galaxy S24 Extremely to judge battery survivability in harsh circumstances:

As you may see, each gadgets have been positioned in a freezer set at -7 levels Fahrenheit (ca. -22 °C) with an preliminary cost of 59%. After 20 hours, the Galaxy S24 Extremely’s battery had dropped to 34%, whereas the Magic 6 Professional nonetheless had 40% left. After 48 hours, the Galaxy S24 Extremely’s battery was utterly drained, however the Magic 6 Professional maintained a formidable 33%.

Much more outstanding, after 5 days within the freezer, the Magic 6 Professional was nonetheless working with over 10% battery remaining.

I imply, come on!

So, Samsung desires to make use of the identical battery for the Galaxy S25 Extremely?! Oh, effectively…

Fact to be spoken, it is not simply in regards to the Honor’s battery capability, though the Magic 6 Professional packs a 5,600 mAh capability one, whereas the Galaxy S24 Extremely is rated at 5,000 mAh.

Nope. There’s extra to it than that.

The form of battery sorcery that makes this doable

The Honor Magic 6 Professional did not simply win the freezer competitors. Earlier than the ice showdown, Honor really despatched its 2024 flagship on a 3-hour flight to close area. After reaching an altitude of over 16,000 ft (ca. 5 km), the place temperatures are extraordinarily low and sometimes detrimental to battery life, the Magic 6 Professional was parachuted again to Earth with 86% of its battery remaining.

The key lies with the Magic Professional 6’s second-generation silicon-carbon battery that may be in comparison with Tesla’s developments within the electrical car trade.

This new silicon-carbon battery gives distinctive battery life and efficiency, particularly in chilly circumstances. By transitioning from conventional graphite to silicon-carbon supplies, the anode’s capability is considerably elevated, offering as much as 10 instances extra capability.

This development additionally addresses quantity enlargement points with progressive options. The brand new battery expertise boasts improved energy density and fast-charging capabilities, with a 6% enhance in energy density in comparison with graphite batteries.

The final time Samsung made an Apple transfer, issues went terribly fallacious

I am additionally going barely mad due to Samsung’s approach of doing issues.

If the Galaxy S25 Extremely does arrive in a thinner physique in the identical 12 months as Apple’s ridiculously skinny iPhone 17 SlimUltraAir, this may not go unnoticed.

We simply noticed what occurred with the Galaxy Buds 3 Professional and the newest Galaxy Watch that have been unveiled on the Galaxy Unpacked occasion in July:

Samsung Electronics’ Chairman Lee Jae-yong, sometimes recognized for his calm demeanor, was notably upset with the corporate’s cell division. He has ordered a reevaluation of its management, following accusations that Samsung’s latest merchandise, such because the Galaxy Buds 3 and Galaxy Watch Extremely, intently resemble Apple’s designs.

To be sincere, it is not simply Samsung that obtained closely impressed by Apple’s smartphone. The recently-released Pixel 9 has by no means appeared extra like an iPhone: simply take a look at its body, for crying out loud!

Is Samsung unable to realize technological breakthroughs, or it simply would not need to?

On the finish of the day, we have to ask ourselves if Samsung – the go-to telephone model for an unimaginable variety of folks throughout the globe and a real technological large – is just unable to make a battery just like the one discovered within the Honor Magic 6 Professional.Whereas I can not reply with a 100% certainty, my reply is:

In any case, it is obtained loads of cash, specialists, know-how, expertise, and all the things else wanted. It is good being a large.

The fact is that Samsung in all probability would not care to place such a sturdy battery within the Galaxy S25 Extremely.

Look, Honor has some fairly first rate – and a few wonderful – telephones for folks to purchase. Nonetheless, it would not have Samsung’s attain and recognition. So, it has to pack some mind-blowing tech in its telephones, to be able to get folks’s consideration.

Samsung, as I simply talked about, already has loads of that (the globe’s consideration). So Samsung would not really feel the necessity to pack cutting-edge novelty expertise in its flagships. Unhappy, however true.

I used to be going to finish this with the somewhat gloomy existential dread of a line: “It’s what it’s!”, however I made a decision to take action on a optimistic word. In any case, it is Friday!

Regardless of the Galaxy S25 Extremely‘s seemingly disappointing battery pack, I am certain its show can be wonderful: the one on the Galaxy S24 Extremely certainly was!