The idea appears to be that Bixby will be able to complete most tasks on a Galaxy S25 with natural language requests. “Anything that can be done by touch can be done [with your voice] by Bixby,” Lee Dinham, mobile experience product specialist at Samsung told me.

In its Geekbench 6 CPU benchmark results, the Galaxy S25 Ultra achieved an impressive single-core score of 3106, putting it well ahead of the S24 Ultra, which scored 2136. Admittedly, its single-core score did not beat the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which still leads at 3429, however, the S25 Ultra's multi-core scores are another matter entirely.

Two powerful, compact phone with similar price tags, here's a Samsung Galaxy S25 vs Google Pixel 9 comparison.