The Galaxy S25 Ultra is shaping out to be a beast after we’ve put it through some testing. Not only does it have the brightest screen we’ve tested in a Samsung phone to date, but it just achieved a record-setting mark for battery life among Samsung phones we’ve tested — and all other phone releases this year can’t afford to come up short.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra does all of the things you want from a high-end smartphone, but its redesign annoys me.