Broke my S23 Ultra a couple weeks ago. Bought the S25 base model. $850 through Spectrum....
What a cheap feeling, poor performimg P.O.S.! **bleep**, Samsung? What an utter disappointment of a phone! Feels cheap, laggy, buggy, tiny screen, just an all out pile of garbage. My S3 was a better phone, both in the hand and it's performance. This S25 is just sad. HIGHLY overpriced junk.
Paid $350 to fix my S23 Ultra. A phone that actually FEELS AND PERFORMS like a true, quality, flagship phone.
Highly doubt I'll buy another Samsung in the future. At least not any base models. Definitely not unless I can at least get one in hand first. This will go in the drawer as a very last resort in case I break this phone again.
If you're thinking of buying an S25, base model, be prepared to be insanely disappointed. Look at other phones, even other OEM's (not Apple, though, they suck in general).
I'm seeing the S25 Ultra for about the same price as what I paid for this hunk of junk right now, so maybe try that route, but I can't speak to the Ultras quality, but it CANT be as bad as this S25, so, go it at your own risk.
Yeah, I had weird audio issues too. Mostly on Bluetooth in the car or my semi. It would randomly go silent, then you'd turn off BT and sound wouldn't come from the phone itself.
The base S25, still, in my opinion, is a pile of garbage. I don't care how "powerful" the processor is.
