One of 2025’s best flagship-level Android smartphones is a better buy than ever before right now at Amazon. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ is at $680 at Amazon right now, down $320 from its $1,000 list price. It’s a better deal even than the $700 one that hit big in July, and better still, the Navy model on sale now is unlocked so you can take it to any carrier to get the best deal.
The S25+ runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, a processor variant Qualcomm tuned specifically for Samsung, and pairs it with 12GB of RAM. In practice, that combination handles parallel workloads without hesitation. Translate a call while it’s happening, export a video while you’re browsing, run multiple AI tasks without waiting for one to finish before starting the next. The 6.7-inch display hits 2,600 nits of brightness, which is bright enough to read in direct sunlight without shading the screen with your hand. A ProScaler upscaling layer sharpens lower-resolution content, so streaming video that wasn’t shot for a display this capable still looks sharper than the source material.
Best Camera Yet?
Camera performance is where the S25+ has always punched above its price class, and AI Night Mode is the clearest example. The system captures multiple frames in low-light conditions and combines them to produce a photo that looks more like what your eye saw than what a sensor typically captures in bad lighting. Audio Eraser applies similar logic to video: It isolates and reduces background noise after you’ve already recorded, so a clip from a concert or a crowded street doesn’t have to stay loud and chaotic. Portrait mode includes skin-tone and texture processing that produces polished results without looking filtered.
The Galaxy AI features are built into the software and operate without requiring a subscription for most of them. Now Brief surfaces information it predicts you’ll need based on your schedule and habits before you think to look for it. The natural-language assistant handles multi-step requests in one prompt, so asking it to find a restaurant and send the result to a contact is a single ask rather than three separate actions.
Runs Longer and Better
The 4,900mAh battery is a significant upgrade over the 4,700mAh cell in the standard Galaxy S25, and in real use it covers a full day comfortably and often stretches toward two days with moderate screen-on time. Fast charging brings it from low to a useful charge quickly, and wireless charging is supported. The 256GB of storage is the base configuration, which is more than enough for most users but worth considering if you shoot a lot of 4K video and don’t want to manage a cloud storage plan alongside the phone.
At $680 for an unlocked model, the S25+ undercuts what a carrier will charge for the same hardware over a two-year installment plan once fees and service tier requirements are factored in. The S25+ has been a strong buy at $999; at $680, it’s nearly impossible to argue with.