Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 live – counting down to the Galaxy S25 launch

The first Samsung Galaxy Unpacked of 2025 kicks off the phone New Year, and we're expecting big updates for the Samsung Galaxy S25 family, with the premiere Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra leading the way. I've attended more than a dozen Unpacked events (and I even worked with Samsung at a few), so I'll have the best analysis and news as it breaks from Samsung's conference in San Jose, CA.

We haven't heard much that will differentiate Samsung's new phones from last year's Galaxy S24 lineup, though we're expecting Galaxy AI to be the feature Samsung talks about the most, so there could be surprises in store and previews of what's to come in the months and years ahead. At the least, we're expecting a new powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset for Galaxy, following Qualcomm's tradition of making custom ...