I’ve by no means been fairly certain what to name the class Samsung’s Galaxy FE belongs to. Higher midrange? Midrange plus? Low flagship? No matter we’re calling it, Samsung is bringing the idea again once more this 12 months within the Galaxy S25 FE, which continues to face for Fan Version. It’s nonetheless $650 just like the S24 FE earlier than it and nonetheless comes with a 6.7-inch display, making it an enormous telephone for the value-conscious purchaser. Additionally new from Samsung right this moment for big-screen followers: the Galaxy Tab S11 Extremely with a 14.6-inch display, alongside the less-big Tab S11 with 11-inch display. They’ll price $1,199 and $799, respectively.
My colleague Dominic Preston received some hands-on time with all three gadgets, that are all thinner and lighter than the variations that preceded them. The S25 FE will get a slight battery enhance — 4,700mAh to 4,900mAh — and an up to date selfie digital camera, from 10 megapixels to 12 megapixels. The 8-megapixel 3x zoom continues to be a step behind the telephoto digital camera on the S25 and S25 Plus, however it’s there, at the least. It’ll include an Exynos 2400 chipset, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB or 256GB of storage.
If the S25 FE belongs to the flagship-minus class, then the essential Pixel 10 is a contender for the class this 12 months, too. Just like the FE it doesn’t provide fairly the identical high-end digital camera specs because the higher-tier flagships, however does embody an optical zoom lens. It’s a tad pricier at $799, however the ethos is analogous. Nonetheless, I feel at the least a part of the explanation for the S25 FE’s existence is to sit down on a shelf close to the different new telephones we’re anticipating subsequent week and tease iPhone patrons with a cheaper price and a telephoto lens that their base mannequin can’t contact.
The Galaxy Tab S11 and S11 Extremely additionally include a function you received’t discover included within the field with Apple’s tablets: a stylus. It doesn’t provide Bluetooth LE connectivity, however it’s there. The S11 Extremely comes with an anti-reflective show coating, a function I admire on the Galaxy S25 Extremely. And it is smart on a pill this massive that you simply may need to use as a laptop computer substitute. Each tablets — and the S25 FE too — will ship with One UI 8, which is Samsung’s model of Android 16. They’re out there beginning right this moment.