In concept, we nonetheless do not know an terrible lot for positive in regards to the undoubtedly fast-approaching
Galaxy S25 household of ultra-high-end smartphones. In follow, lots of the key S25, S25 Plus, and
S25 Extremely specs and options are basically etched in stone already, and the identical goes for
Samsung’s Unpacked announcement occasion date following a rock-solid current leak.
What remained (considerably) unclear even after that January 22 date reveal was the remainder of the corporate’s launch schedule for its next-gen Android flagship trio, which is the place
a brand new Korean media report (
translated right here) from a usually very dependable publication is available in at the moment. This goals to interrupt down the complete S25 collection launch timeline, and imagine it or not, that might even embrace the first-ever Slim mannequin.
Save the date(s), everyone!
- January 23 – announcement;
- January 24 – pre-order begin;
- February 3 – pre-order shut;
- February 4 – gross sales begin for pre-order prospects;
- February 7 – official launch for all.
Does that schedule sound just a little… iffy and unnecessarily convoluted? That is as a result of these dates are solely good for
Samsung‘s homeland of South Korea, with the
Galaxy S25 household launch schedule more likely to look just a little bit like this within the US, as an illustration:
- January 22 – announcement (1 pm Japanese, 10 am Pacific Time);
- January 22 – pre-order begin;
- February 5 – official launch.
Now that makes much more sense, would not it? After all, you should not take all these dates (and particularly the occasion instances) without any consideration simply but, however current historical past, widespread sense, and this very credible report from Korea all carry me to the identical normal predictions.
Samsung at all times takes precisely two weeks between a flagship announcement and its industrial debut stateside, and lately, the corporate has made a behavior of kicking off pre-orders in a short time after the formal launch of a brand new addition to the Galaxy S household. In brief, you may as nicely circle these dates in your calendars with purple as a result of there’s virtually no approach any of them will show inaccurate (by greater than a day, no less than).
Is the S25 Slim coming in January?
Whereas a bunch of insiders and tipsters have predicted within the final couple of months that the
Galaxy S25 Slim will launch in Q2 2025, this new report appears to counsel the January 22 Unpacked occasion shall usher in a grand complete of 4 Samsung high-enders.
Sure, there’s apparently a superb probability the S25 Slim will be a part of the S25, S25 Plus, and S25 Extremely subsequent month, however I extremely doubt all 4 of these telephones can even go on pre-order straight away and begin promoting in early February.
We do not know quite a bit in regards to the S25 Slim, however we all know it’ll be thinner than the S24. | Picture Credit score — PhoneArena
As an alternative, the
Galaxy S25 Slim is more likely to be commercially launched at a later cut-off date, and maybe extra importantly,
in a lot decrease numbers and
in fewer nations than its extra “standard” siblings. In the present day’s report would not carry a number of new info on this first-of-a-kind system to the desk, thoughts you, merely declaring its profile will undercut the 7.6mm thickness of the “vanilla”
Galaxy S24, which solely provides to the thriller surrounding a product that might be described as extremely experimental in nature albeit nowhere close to as groundbreaking as, say, a first-gen foldable or an
upcoming tri-fold mannequin.
