Android features unveiled at Samsung's Unpacked event narrow some of the gap between Samsung’s flavor of Android and Google’s.

A new day has dawned for the Samsung side button. At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company announced a small — but meaningful — tweak arriving

Do the new Galaxies have a killer feature? Samsung hopes that the new and improved artificial intelligence (AI) is it. In fact, the launch event was all about AI via Samsung's One UI 7 Android skin, courtesy of Google which has supplied the Gemini technology for the purpose.

As usual, the Galaxy S25+ is the larger of Samsung’s two standard models, with a 6.7-inch display. By comparison, Google has shrunk things with its Pixel 9 Pro this year, moving down to a 6.3-inch display; you’ll have to opt for the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL if you want the full-sized model.

At Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google marked the occasion with a slew of At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, the company unveiled an improved Gemini assistant,

Google's Gemini AI assistant can connect with Samsung apps on the Galaxy S25 series to perform cross-app tasks.

The AI features on Samsung's Galaxy S25 phones uses both on-device and cloud-based AI models, including the touted AI assistant.

Don’t be surprised if the Samsung Galaxy S25’s fresh approach ends up making believers out of the AI agnostics.

Balancing work and home is incredibly overwhelming, and we’re all looking for ways to help us juggle life’s demands.“We’ve reached a point now where AI has evolved to become a companion – it’s knowing intuitively what you need,