Samsung Galaxy S25 Collection to Feature Older Display Technology to Cut Costs: Report

Samsung Galaxy S25 collection will reportedly characteristic barely older show know-how to maintain prices of manufacturing the upcoming handsets in test. While the iPhone 16 Pro fashions sport shows which can be constructed with the corporate’s newest know-how, the purported successors to the corporate’s Galaxy S24 lineup won’t provide the identical show enhancements as its rivals, based on a report. Samsung is anticipated to launch the Galaxy S25 collection of smartphones in early 2025, with Snapdragon 8 Elite chips.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Could Feature Older Display Technology to Cut Costs

An ETNews report citing trade insiders (in Korean) states that Samsung will equip the Galaxy S25 collection with low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) OLED panels constructed by Samsung Display utilizing M13 natural supplies. These are the identical OLED supplies have been reportedly utilized by the corporate to provide the shows for the Samsung Galaxy S24 collection that arrived earlier this 12 months.

This implies that the Samsung Galaxy S25 collection won’t characteristic shows which can be constructed utilizing M14 natural supplies, utilized by Samsung Display to provide the panels on the iPhone 16 Pro fashions that have been launched earlier this 12 months. Display Chain Supply Consultants (DSCC) CEO Ross Young additionally echoed these claims, stating that the choice was made for “cost reasons”.

The report additionally sheds some mild on the show sizes of the corporate’s upcoming flagship telephones — the Galaxy S25 might characteristic a 6.16-inch display, whereas the Galaxy S25+ and the Galaxy S25 Ultra might sport 6.66-inch and 6.86-inch shows, respectively.

At Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon Summit 2024 occasion, Samsung Mobile President TM Roh stated that Samsung’s upcoming smartphone fashions can be outfitted with the chipmaker’s newest flagship processor. It is unclear whether or not the purported determination to make use of an older show know-how to chop prices is said to the reported determination to make use of Snapdragon 8 Elite chipsets on all fashions, in contrast to the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ that arrived with an Exynos 2400 SoC in a number of markets.