The Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely and the Galaxy S25 Extremely smartphones might have been given a sneaky charging improve.
For a number of years now there have been widespread grumbles over Samsung’s flagship smartphone charging provision, which hasn’t drastically modified in fairly some time.
After they arrived in January, the Galaxy S25 vary didn’t seem to vary any of that. Each the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely and the Galaxy S25 Plus, particularly, proceed to be restricted to a reasonably middling 45W wired charging commonplace.
Nonetheless, Samsung might have sneaked in a small however welcome improve. When you nonetheless don’t get a charging brick in both field (although that in itself isn’t uncommon in 2025), Sammyguru claims that the bundled USB-C to USB-C cable is markedly higher than earlier than.
Luke Baker
How Galaxy S25 Extremely and S25 Plus charging has been improved
Each the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely and the Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus shipped with 25W cables within the field, which means they couldn’t be relied upon to realize the utmost charging speeds even in case you had a suitably speedy plug at hand.
With the Galaxy S25 Extremely and Galaxy S25 Plus, nonetheless, you apparently now get a correct 15V/3A USB-C cable that’s as much as the duty of charging on the full 45W. All you’ll have to do is discover a charging supply that’s able to the job.
After all, Samsung nonetheless lags behind a lot of its rivals on the charging pace entrance. Most lately, the OnePlus 13 arrived with help for 100W charging, although once more you’ll want to produce that charging brick your self.
It’s barely older and shortly to get replaced, however final 12 months’s Xiaomi 14 Extremely – maybe essentially the most direct competitor to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely when it comes to uncooked specs – got here with a 90W HyperCharge adapter within the field.
Nonetheless, progress is progress from Samsung, even when the Galaxy S25 Extremely did make a worrying rollback elsewhere.