Samsung Galaxy S25 family’s price hike to be limited | Infinium-tech

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 series has long been rumored to be priced in Europe, Korea, and India. Today a new report from Korea’s Samsung Home gives things a little more detail. This is good news and bad news.

The bad news is that prices are actually going to go up, at least in Korea. The good news is that this will apparently only apply to models with 512GB of storage. The launch price of the 256GB versions will be the same as their predecessors.

The actual level of the price increase is even better news as it is rumored to be KRW 15,400, which translates to about $10 or €10 at current exchange rates. If that were the case worldwide (and that’s undoubtedly a big “if”), we’re sure a lot of people really wouldn’t mind.

And if you’re thinking of buying a Galaxy S25 as soon as possible, rumor has it that Samsung will let you get the 512GB model at the same price as the 256GB one for a limited time like last year, in which case the price hike will just be on you. There will be no impact at all.

While Samsung is paying Qualcomm more for the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, which will be used in all three S25 models, compared to the cost of using the Exynos 2500 instead, the latter’s yield issues have led it to part ways with Qualcomm. Have forced to. But the Korean company has apparently decided to eat the cost difference itself in the service of popularizing AI smartphones — and it certainly hasn’t seen any major decline in shipments.

Keep in mind that even if this is true, it only applies to the Korean market and it’s unclear whether Samsung would want to go with the same strategy elsewhere. The Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra are going official on January 22, and it’s long been rumored that the Galaxy S25 Slim could join them, even though it will actually only be available later in the year.

Source (in Korean)