Is Samsung going to kill the Galaxy S25 Plus?

The Samsung Galaxy S25 collection remains to be at the very least a yr out, with the telephones anticipated to launch someday early subsequent yr, seemingly someday between January and February based mostly on precedent. Nonetheless, a current unique from Android Headlines suggests there could also be a radical change within the pipeline for the S25 collection — it could not include a Galaxy S25 Plus mannequin, leaving only a common S25 and S25 Extremely as a part of the lineup.

The rumor is predicated on Android Headline’s examinations of the IMEI database. The Galaxy S25 is out there with mannequin quantity SMS931B/DS, the S25 Extremely seems as SM-S938B, SM-S938U, SM-S938N, and SM-S9380. For reference, the B within the IMEI quantity stands for the World mannequin, the U for the USA, and the N for South Korea.

Android Headline believes that the omission of the S25 Plus from the database means that Samsung is making a significant change to the lineup and launching solely two gadgets within the S25 collection. In addition they level out that the gross sales of the Plus variant haven’t at all times met gross sales expectations.

In 2020, Samsung really had 4 variants: the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, Word 20, and Word 20 Extremely. This was streamlined in 2021 to simply the S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Extremely, and Samsung has saved this launch schedule ever since.

The reasoning right here strikes us as somewhat skinny. There are a lot of the explanation why a telephone mannequin might not have been entered into the IMEI database but. As SamMobile factors out, simply because there isn’t an early signal of an S25 Plus mannequin doesn’t imply that it doesn’t exist or isn’t in growth. Based on a number of sources, together with Galaxy Membership, the Galaxy S25 Plus remains to be in growth. Samsung refers back to the base, Plus, and Extremely fashions utilizing codenames F1, F2, and F3 with accompanying mannequin numbers SM-S931, SM-S936, and SM-S938. So far as we all know to date, all three fashions are nonetheless on the desk.

In different rumors, we’ve gotten some potential perception into the potential digicam sensors of the S25, plus some speak that Samsung might transfer away from Qualcomm to a MediaTek chip or some mixture of MediaTek, Exynos, and Qualcomm chips. The latter rumor was just lately contradicted by dependable tipster Ming-Chi Kuo who mentioned Samsung will probably be sticking with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 for the S25 and can really be the only real provider.

At this level, we’re nonetheless very early within the rumor cycle for the Galaxy S25. Issues normally don’t agency up till later within the yr, so count on to get extra dependable and fewer contradictory info within the coming months.