If you’ve been looking to get some of the best Android experience on a smartphone, now is probably the time to do so. As we have recently noted, Samsung’s 2024 flagship smartphone series is seeing significant price cuts across multiple retailers in the country, including the official ones.
Part of the reason why those Galaxy S24 series price cuts are in effect is because if the past is anything to go by, we are about a quarter a year away from the official unveiling of its successor, the Galaxy S25 series.
Now, about that…
Word out there is that Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone series will keep the same old “fast” charging speeds that its predecessors have had over the last few years.
A report out of Gizmochina citing China’s safety certification body China Compulsory Product Certification (known popularly as the CCC or 3C) says that the upcoming Samsung flagship series has already been certified for the 25W and 45W charging speeds that exist on the Galaxy S24 series.
As per the information from the Chinese safety certification body, the standard Galaxy S25 will have 25W fast charging while the Galaxy S25+ will have 45W fast charging. Word on the expected series headliner, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, is scarce at this time but, if the past is anything to go by, we can also expect it to have 45W fast charging.
This will be a continuation of Samsung’s long-held cautious approach to fast charging since the disastrous Galaxy Note 7 fiasco 8 years ago that saw it initiate a recall of millions of units of the device and, eventually, stopped its production altogether.
In the years since then, Samsung’s fast charging was stuck at a measly 15W before making the jump to 25W with the release of the Galaxy Note 10 series in 2017. It would be another 5 years before Samsung would move the needle and offer 45W fast charging with the Galaxy S22 series. And even then, something that has stuck with the S23, S24 and, as we are learning, the S25 series as well, it would limit the higher charging speeds to its Plus and Ultra models only. Users of the standard Galaxy S smartphone would get the 25W fast charging.
While no word regarding them has leaked out so far, it is also expected that Samsung will retain the 15W and 4.5W wireless charging and reverse wireless charging speed caps that it’s had in place over the last half decade.
Normally, that would be just fine. Except we are living in a world where we are no longer strangers to seeing 300W fast charging being demonstrated by various players (Samsung’s competitors) and 65W fast charging is all but the norm these days for mid-range devices while entry-level ones easily pull 33W fast charging.
For fans of Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone series, if what we know now is anything to go by, unless something magically happens when Samsung launches its new line of foldables later in 2025, they can cross any hopes of seeing the Korean company offer something more than 45W fast charging and defer them to 2026. Hopefully.
