Honor trolls Galaxy S25's lack of upgrades with Dedicated Unboxing Video – Gizmochina

Samsung has launched its Galaxy S25 series, with a key focus on Galaxy AI. Aside from a shift in external design, there’s not much to talk about when it comes to hardware. In fact, Samsung itself barely talked about the base and plus models in the launch event, except for revealing the prices at the end.

Honor takes a jab at Galaxy S25’s lack of hardware upgrades

We are not sure about every Galaxy fan, but Honor‘s marketing team definitely took it seriously. The company posted a video on X unboxing a giant gift box with the tag “Gift for Sam” on a busy street in London. It includes a set of accessories – a charger, a tripod, a ring light, several small boxes that look like gifts, and a large poster that reads the following:

“HAPPY 25th SAM
May these make it your best year yet
Or use an
HONOR Magic 7 Pro 5G”

The post itself notes: “No true companion is complete without these… or just use an HONOR Magic 7 Pro. #HONORMagic7″

For those unfamiliar, the Galaxy S25 Ultra brings a larger VC cooling, and a 50MP ultrawide (upgraded from the old 12MP one), which now enables the phone to record in 8K from the ultrawide. While Samsung talked about many other camera improvements and new features across different aspects, mostly all of them are software-based, and hence it’s possible to implement them in last year’s model as well.

For example, Samsung talked about how the Galaxy S25 helps capture a perfect selfie by capturing multiple frames and merging the best faces together—a feature already available to the much less capable Tensor G4-powered Pixel devices. This is just one of the several Gemini-powered features showcased to highlight the Galaxy S25’s capabilities—the best of Samsung for 2025. This is where the post makes a bit of sense.

Surely, the Magic 7 Pro (announced in October 2024) doesn’t undercut the Galaxy S25 series in every aspect. But Honor has made significant additions to the camera hardware, which according to the company, can replace the need for many of the accessories that the S25 series will need to be paired with to achieve similar results.

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