Who's ordering the S25?

[SyCoREAPER]

I almost had unforseen circumstances yesterday when I dropped my S24U while rebooting the phone. had an ugly green screen with all sorts of Korean language on it. in fact, it popped out of its case slightly, long pressing the volume rocker (I imagine) pulling up that menu. BUT, it rebooted just fine. back in the game.

I only laugh because of how you started the reply and you emoji at the end. Glad it wasn't permanent but that's a bizarre combination of things to happen

 

[buzzy3970]

No phone is a major upgrade on this yearly cycle. As opposed to when phones were updated every two years. But there always some minor upgrades. And as pointed out. With preorder and trade in offers. It makes moving up to the s25 ultra almost a no brainer.

Under $500 for the S25 Ultra. I'll take that any day of the week.

One thing that can't be denied is the trade in promotions are a decent deal. I can't remember the last time if ever that I ever paid more than 50% MSRP on a galaxy phone and I upgrade at least twice a year (S series and foldable).

 

[VidJunky]

I assume Manny of you have been watching reviews, first impressions, and unboxing videos, like myself, but I think I've seen enough to say there are too many deal breakers for me to consider this device. The big one for me is the dumbing down of the SPen. I use it almost everyday, sometimes just to play a game, but the 2 reasons I wanted the SPen was screen off notes and picture remote. If they're taking Wi-Fi out of the SPen, removing air gestures and remote picture taking there's nothing they can offer me to make up for that loss. I compromised when they took out the ability to use tap to pay for magnetic strip readers. At the time I was willing to give it up because I hated the S20 and wanted a new device.

So what about you, are you still considering it? Is there a deal breaker for you?

 

[mustang7757]

I assume Manny of you have been watching reviews, first impressions, and unboxing videos, like myself, but I think I've seen enough to say there are too many deal breakers for me to consider this device. The big one for me is the dumbing down of the SPen. I use it almost everyday, sometimes just to play a game, but the 2 reasons I wanted the SPen was screen off notes and picture remote. If they're taking Wi-Fi out of the SPen, removing air gestures and remote picture taking there's nothing they can offer me to make up for that loss. I compromised when they took out the ability to use tap to pay for magnetic strip readers. At the time I was willing to give it up because I hated the S20 and wanted a new device.

So what about you, are you still considering it? Is there a deal breaker for you?

I didn't like that they removed Spen Bluetooth but not a deal breaker, I used it for the camera so as long as the Spen functions the way it should I'm ok , looking forward to the lighter weight/slimmer and slightly round corners with the new chip. The square corners I liked the look on the s24u but the way I held it dug into my palm which was uncomfortable.

 

[Katrina White1]

So what about you, are you still considering it? Is there a deal breaker for you?

Yep, still going for it. I can activate the camera shutter by voice or my Watch. I can use my Watch to control media. Everything else I regularly use my pen for should work the same. Air command is still there. That's the only "downgrade" I know of. I'm not happy about it, but it is what it is. I'm not 100% sure I'll keep it, but I'm definitely looking forward to receiving it and checking it out.

 

[racedog]

I've been buying the newest Sammy phones at announcement for at least 15 years. One for myself and one for my wife. It feels really odd but I decided not to order this time. Seems like Samsung expects to make some really minor changes/enhancements and call it a whole new phone. I'm just not buying into it any more.

As it is, right now I'm using a P9P Pro XL and I have sitting on my desk a lightly used S24U, an S 24 plus, a Z Fold 6, and an iphone 14 pro max, all if which I need to sell cheap just to get them out of here . So, this was the year to end the addiction and use what I have which is working just fine.

So I come in here to read all the posts and get a feel for all the excitement of those waiting for their shipment to arrive.

Shortly after that will start the posts with all the complaints about the camera or the screen colors or whatever is pi$$ing people off this year

 

[bembol]

If only Samsung Canada gave us free Galaxy Buds FE, I would have ordered the S25 128GB Mint.

I'm getting $215 for an iPhone 7 Plus 32GB (crazy, unbelieavable looking back) and $200 off vouch.

 

[TheMiz]

Well the Trade In has now been Label generated.

 

[Dualmonitors]

Well the Trade In has now been Label generated.

May i ask what that means please? I'm checking my UPS site and I only see one label generated and that label is going from TX to me.

How would one check for a label that goes from our home address back to TMobile for trade in purposes please?

Thanks.

 

[TheMiz]

May i ask what that means please? I'm checking my UPS site and I only see one label generated and that label is going from TX to me.

How would one check for a label that goes from our home address back to TMobile for trade in purposes please?

Thanks.

My return is direct to Samsung they created the label .

Did you buy yours from Samsung.Com ?

 

[mlblack16]

May i ask what that means please? I'm checking my UPS site and I only see one label generated and that label is going from TX to me.

How would one check for a label that goes from our home address back to TMobile for trade in purposes please?

Thanks.

Log into your Samsung account and look under orders. Once you select the order for your S25U, scroll down and you should see some opposing arrows and then label created. Select the print label box, and a new page should load with a UPS label to print.

Usually, you can use the box the new phone ships in and just tape your label over the old one. Make sure to use a black marker and scribble over any bar code lines from the old label if it doesn't get completely covered.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

For those trading in to Samsung.

They will either lose your phone at the destination (happened to me every trade-in) or claim there was damage (hasn't happened to me but plenty others).

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures and stay on top of the website status. If it says delivered and after 2-3 business days of no movement, you need to push to have them fix it.

Pictures take from every angle possible. How you packaged it. How you labeled it. The screen on. Screen off. Hell do a video showing everything works to be safe. Do not allow any wiggle room for a BS value deduction or disqualification. People have gone through it. You don't want to have to.

 

[Laura Knotek]

For those trading in to Samsung.

They will either lose your phone at the destination (happened to me every trade-in) or claim there was damage (hasn't happened to me but plenty others).

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures and stay on top of the website status. If it says delivered and after 2-3 business days of no movement, you need to push to have them fix it.

Pictures take from every angle possible. How you packaged it. How you labeled it. The screen on. Screen off. Hell do a video showing everything works to be safe. Do not allow any wiggle room for a BS value deduction or disqualification. People have gone through it. You don't want to have to.

I'm sorry you had such bad experiences trading in your Samsung devices. I never had any issues at all. I feel bad that so many people have problems with their trade-ins.

 

[Katrina White1]

I'm sorry you had such bad experiences trading in your Samsung devices. I never had any issues at all. I feel bad that so many people have problems with their trade-ins.

Same. I always did the video thing. Last year it was so prevalent I went and chatted with my local shipping guy. He said he'd have no problem with me going off to the side to video, pack, and hand-off my device. We only hear about phones here, but hundreds of packages go missing DAILY!

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I'm sorry you had such bad experiences trading in your Samsung devices. I never had any issues at all. I feel bad that so many people have problems with their trade-ins.

I don't like crapping up forums with gifs unless needed *mind blown guy gif"
You are extremely lucky.

I consider myself lucky despite it happening. Samsung never gave me a hard time about it, in part because I'd stay calm and friendly in chat until I didn't.

For those that face issues I feel bad to not just for it happening but it puts a bad taste in their mouths and undoubtedly a mental connection even if subconsciously is made to Android as a whole.

Unless Samsung has a amazing trade-in not comparable to the carrier, the past 2 phones have gone to the carrier. Had zero issues with them and the trade is done the second it's handed to them. Very painless.
Also they are less picky, despite my clumsy old dads flip having a crunchy, misaligned hinge and delaminating screen. They did spend a little extra time on the small crack in the rear glass which made me nervous but still took it.

 

[Katrina White1]

@SyCoREAPER Carrier trade is absolutely less stressful! The biggest issue I have with carriers is the requirement to keep the phone a full 3 years. AT&T...If I understand correctly, you lose bill credits if u pay it off early. I don't mind the bloat or the carrier branding so much. I just ignore that. I used to be on AT&T Next, but for some reason I started pre-ordering with Samsung direct beginning with the Note 5.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

@SyCoREAPER Carrier trade is absolutely less stressful! The biggest issue I have with carriers is the requirement to keep the phone a full 3 years. AT&T...If I understand correctly, you lose bill credits if u pay it off early. I don't mind the bloat or the carrier branding so much. I just ignore that. I used to be on AT&T Next, but for some reason I started pre-ordering with Samsung direct beginning with the Note 5.

AT&T (no offense) is the worst in customer service of the big three. Verizon is the slimiest. T-Mobile has been really good to me.

(Again sorry) AT&T butchers the ROM and they really do put crap everywhere too. I couldn't believe how not normal everything was working on the father-in-laws phone. But going the carrier route you can always flash U1 firmware and make it an unlocked version. In the past and this may have changed, The same for the other way around was not true. Flashing carrier to a unlocked model caused things like VVM and ScamShield to not work.

Losing the credits is extremely frustrating and I've faced (am facing that with my poop watch) it too. However at least with T-Mobile I've always had the option presented to apply the trade as a lump sum towards the bill. So the bill first bill would usually be zero, second usually solme left over and be less and then back to nornal.
I still choose credits because it offsets the bill increase and nobody notices and avoid drame.

 

[Walter Wagenleithner]

I pulled the trigger on a 512 GB Ultra in jet black

A few days later I now changed the order to the base Model S25 with 512 GB in Navy Blue. Reasons: I saw the first video reviews of the Ultra Model with the flat sides and it really reminded me on a brick. I always eyed on the smaller S24 model last year, but now the S25 has bigger storage options, Qualcomm processor instead of Exinos... and I really fell in love with the navy blue colour when I saw it in the video reviews

 

[Katrina White1]

@Walter Wagenleithner You're winning. That navy is fantastical

 

[mlblack16]

@SyCoREAPER Carrier trade is absolutely less stressful! The biggest issue I have with carriers is the requirement to keep the phone a full 3 years. AT&T...If I understand correctly, you lose bill credits if u pay it off early. I don't mind the bloat or the carrier branding so much. I just ignore that. I used to be on AT&T Next, but for some reason I started pre-ordering with Samsung direct beginning with the Note 5.

EXACTLY. They won't even let you just buy the phone upfront after the trade-in credit. But it's because they know there's plenty of impatient people like me who will just say eff it, pay off early (losing the majority of that trade credit) and get a new device.

I've been losing my ace by doing this; that's why I decided to go the Samsung route. I get that entire credit upfront, no parsing out micro payments for a ridiculous length of time (3 YEARS).