Is it a laugh or a cry? Basic Galaxy The S25 could have the same amount of storage as the model Galaxy S10e from 2019. Haven't we really moved on in 5 years?
There's a constant stream of leaks about what Samsung has in store for us in its flagship smartphone lineup in 2025. Now it is an expected but actually quite unpleasant news. Basic Galaxy The S25 will be stuck at 128GB of storage, even though its bigger brothers will start at 256GB. Is this any justice? And what's more, if we don't have the option of a 512GB variant?
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Of course it's disappointing. Not with respect to iPhones which Apple in short, it also holds up, but rather to the numerous Chinese competition, which does not skimp on storage. E.g. OnePlus 12 and Xiaomi 14 already offer 256 GB of basic storage. Unexpectedly, this also applies to relatively cheap phones, such as the Vivo V40 SE. It is Android for CZK 5, which also has 256GB of basic memory. It must be said, however, that it shares the same low bar with Samsung and Applemi Google in its Pixel 9. Space on the cloud is not the answer. Of course, flagships no longer offer space for a microSD card slot.
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Information about the 128GB internal memory capacity of the base model was revealed by a leaker @MysteryLupin in a social network post X. He added that Galaxy S25+ will get 256 or 512 GB of space and Galaxy S25 Ultra 256 or 512 GB or 1 TB memory capacity. By the way, Samsung did not upgrade the storage of its cheapest model of the series Galaxy With from Galaxy S10e from 2019. So it will be the sixth generation of the phone Galaxy With only 128GB of basic storage. It was the cheapest before Galaxy S9, which offered only 64 GB of space by today's standards. On the other hand, there was the option of expanding it via microSD.
That probably depends on the user. Personally, I only watch all movies and videos online, I have completely lost the need to download anything, I don't play games on my phone, I don't take a lot of photos and I don't shoot a lot in 4K. And I put what I need on the cloud. I had about 23GB of 40GB used on my S256+ and now I only have 9GB of 23GB on the pixel 128. But there are a lot of people who take pictures and film as they go by and keep everything in their phones for several years, that about 512 GB is not enough for them. So I think that 128GB still has its users like me, and the choice of when I can save money for something I won't use seems ok to me.
I have it as a colleague. I have 128GB iPhone mini with 40GB occupied in it, I have an S23U with 512GB and less than 70GB occupied and there are some games that I tried on it and did not uninstall. I'm considering iPhone 16Pro and I'll take 128GB. I can connect an external disk to record 4k ProRes, so I would plan to record such a video.
That's enough. Everything goes to the cloud and I regularly clear the cache of what is no longer needed.
It depends, for some it is enough iPhone 14 Pro Max only a measly 128 GB. But those people sometimes take photos, hardly ever shoot videos, don't play games, basically they don't use the potential of a top phone at all, or others use the cloud as soon as they pass by, but they pay a lot for the size if they also throw in 4k 60fps hrd videos. And then, for example, me, who saves to the cloud (NAS at home) and that's why I have an S24+ 512 GB. Music in flac also takes a rocket. For rejpals, I pay for Tidal, but I use PowerAMP, there is no better player, those poor apps, what streaming services offer, this is just an attempt at a joke, settings, interface, options, equalizer, …. wretchedness. He has a friend again iPhone 16 For 1 TB. That 128 GB is a misery today, the system, applications, application data (np.maps) take up something, and there is only 80 GB left. Apple that's where it shines the most, either you buy their cloud or you pay twice as much as for example with Samsung.
If it wasn't stupid enough, it still offers 128 GB even at the max.