The MacRumors Present is again for 2025! On this week’s episode, we take a look at how Samsung’s newest bulletins problem Apple.
Samsung this week introduced the Galaxy S25, the Galaxy S25+, and the top-of-the-line Galaxy S25 Extremely. The brand new gadgets will straight compete with Apple’s iPhone 16 and upcoming iPhone 17 lineup.
Much like the iPhone 16, AI is a significant focus for the S25 lineup, with Samsung touting a brand new “Private Information Engine” with a Dynamic Island-like “Now Bar” with a “Now Transient” that guides customers by their day, Circle to Search, generative picture modifying, context-aware searches with instructed actions, improved pure language understanding, third-party integrations through Gemini, Portrait Studio, and extra.
Samsung additionally previewed the all-new “Galaxy S25 Edge,” a super-thin variant of the S25 set to launch within the first half of 2025. It seems to be positioned as a direct rival to Apple’s upcoming “iPhone 17 Air,” which is anticipated to be the thinnest iPhone ever at simply 6mm and a radical departure from earlier gadgets with a 6.6-inch show with ProMotion, a single speaker, a single rear digital camera, and Apple’s customized 5G modem.
Lastly, Samsung unveiled its upcoming “Mission Moohan” AR/VR headset, which it has designed in collaboration with Google. It’s supposed to compete with Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional and bears a hanging similarity to it by way of design.
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