My biggest gripe about modern smartphones is that they’re too complex. This was true before the chatbots became The New Thing, but generative AI has only accelerated the problem. Samsung is first out of the blocks with its solution: a repurposed Bixby on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

When Samsung announced the Galaxy S25 Ultra during its January Unpacked event, the Korean company claimed that the new flagship phone was the "most durable Galaxy Ultra device ever." With the device finally getting into people's hands, those claims are being put to the test.