Taken in a silo its clearly a good phone, but like the S24 Ultra before it not really a significant upgrade over the S23 in any meaningful way. In getting rid of the cool stylus functions in some ways its actually a downgrade!

I know people criticise Apple for the right reasons for not moving the bar a bit higher but I think this because the market holds them to a higher standard. You take away the AI features (coming to a Pixel near you) and Samsung absolutely phoned it in this year with a pretty lazy update.

Compare this to the lovely OnePlus 13 from last week and its night and day.