Pre-orders for the Galaxy S25 series started last week and are still underway – open sales officially start on February 7. We already looked at early offers, but now Amazon has tweaked its deals, so let’s have another look.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is available with a free storage upgrade (to 512GB) and it includes $80 store credit. The 1TB variant is available in the US too, you can get it from Samsung.
The offer for the Samsung Galaxy S25+ is different. The 256GB model comes with a $100 gift card, so its effective price is $900. The 512GB model is $1,020, which is $100 less than MSRP (and only $20 more than the cost of a 256GB model, not including the promotional gift card).
The deal for the vanilla Samsung Galaxy S25 is structured the same way – get the base storage (128GB in this case) with a $100 gift card or pay a bit extra ($60 more) for the next storage tier (256GB, but you don’t get a gift card). For the S25+ we’d say you can live with the base storage, for the S25 we’d recommend you skip the gift card and get the storage upgrade.
Is the S25 series a bit… boring? Instead of spending nearly $900 for a 256GB Galaxy S25, you can get a 256GB Galaxy Z Flip6. And for $50 more you can get a 512GB model. The flip form factor and the usability of the large cover display can inject a bit of excitement into using your phone that isn’t there with standard bar phones.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 is there for those who subscribe to the “bigger display = better display” ideology. And while there is no sheath for an S Pen, this model does support the Bluetooth-enabled S Pens, which the S25 Ultra no longer does.
We haven’t looked at Samsung tablets in a while and now is a good time – the Galaxy Tab S10+ is almost $300 off. This tablet has a 12.4” 120Hz OLED display, a Dimensity 9300+ chipset, expandable storage, DeX and a large 10,090mAh battery with 45W charging.
A cheaper 12.4” model is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE+. This one has a 90Hz IPS LCD instead of an OLED panel and is powered by the Exynos 1380 chipset. It does have DeX, but only on the tablet itself (no external video). The battery is the same at 10,090mAh with 45W charging.
You can go smaller – and cheaper – with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE, basically a 10.9” version of the FE+. The battery is smaller at 8,000mAh (but still supports 45W charging), everything else is the same.
And before we forget – the Tab S slates come with an S Pen (magnetically attached to their backs) with Bluetooth, air gestures and all. Funny how it’s possible on a $350 tablet, but not on a $1,300 phone.
We will wrap up with an oddball suggestion – Microsoft has created distilled versions of the DeepSeek R1 AI model that can run locally on Copilot+ PCs, starting with ones powered by the Snapdragon X chips. Like Microsoft’s own Surface Laptop, for example. It’s powered by the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and comes in 13.8” and 15” sizes (both with touchscreens).
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