I've been using the Galaxy S24+ ever since it came out at the beginning of the year, and I can effortlessly say that it is one of the best — if not the best — phones I have ever owned. The Galaxy S24+ has been so good that thinking about its sequel and how it could improve the formula is a bit of a mental exercise.
The Galaxy S24+ is nearly perfect, but ‘nearly' is the keyword. Even though it's one of Samsung's best phones to date, with a bit of effort, we can think of a few ways in which Samsung could improve the formula next year.
There aren't that many, and because the Galaxy S24+ is such a fantastic device, our expectations about the Galaxy S25+ bringing drastic changes and improvements in early 2025 are relatively low. Aside from the usual performance bumps we've come to expect every year, there's not much wiggle room for the Galaxy S25+ to improve upon the S24+ formula, but here's what we'd like to see.
Even better One UI
Software is one of the areas in which the 2025 model could and should improve. Although the Galaxy S24+ and One UI 6.1 make a great pair, we can almost be sure that Samsung will try to elevate the software experience even higher.
We're hoping that the Galaxy S25+ will continue to refine the layout of One UI and possibly bring more options to the quick toggle area. We also expect Samsung to improve and add more features to the Galaxy AI suite.
Gorilla Armor screen protection
Gorilla Armor is another upgrade we hope the Galaxy S25+ will offer early next year. This new anti-reflective screen protector is used exclusively by the Galaxy S24 Ultra. However, next year, we hope Samsung will make this material available at least for the S25+, if not the entire S25 series.
This Armor glass is not only less reflective without hurting visibility but it also boasts a higher scratch resistance. In the Mohs' Hardness Test, Gorilla Armor scratches at a higher level than any previous Corning solutions released before the S24 Ultra.
Multi-fingerprint scanning
While fingerprint sensors have become extremely fast, some of us are hoping the Galaxy S25 series will offer a bigger fingerprint sensor scanning area with multi-touch capabilities for better security and ease of use.
As some of you might recall, back in 2022, Samsung said that OLED 2.0 would boast an all-in-one fingerprint scanning solution that would cover the entire screen area. Using three fingerprints at a time for authentication could improve security by 2.5 billion times.
Around the same time, industry experts said Samsung will likely release multi-fingerprint scanning technology in 2025 — the year of the Galaxy S25.
As yet, there's no evidence of this happening next year, but we can hope. A vastly improved fingerprint sensor is one significant upgrade that could set the Galaxy S25+ apart from its predecessors.
A 50MP telephoto camera
Some of us are also hoping that the Galaxy S25+ will finally adopt a different camera setup with a better telephoto camera. It's a bit of wishful thinking, given that the Galaxy Ultra series is the go-to expensive model with cutting-edge camera capabilities and insane zoom levels.
Nevertheless, the Galaxy S25+ doesn't have to feature a 200MP primary shooter and two telephoto sensors. It could simply replace the 10MP zoom camera used by the S24+ with an upgraded 50MP telephoto shooter, which would make many people happy.
4K 60fps video recording switching
Last but not least, the Galaxy S25+ could and should borrow one more feature from the Galaxy S24 Ultra, i.e., seamless camera switching between different cameras when recording 4K 60fps videos.
The Galaxy S24 Ultra is the only one in the S24 series capable of seamlessly switching between its different cameras when recording 4K 60fps videos, and giving this option to future Galaxy S25+ users seems like a logical next step.
However the Galaxy S25+ ends up improving the formula, we're more than half a year away from its debut, and a lot of things can happen in the meantime. At the moment, Samsung is concentrating on announcing the Galaxy Z6 foldable series at the next Unpacked event in July.
