Now, LaptopMag is among the publications claiming the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra brings not only an improvement to its predecessor but also compared to Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Max. While the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy falls behind the A18 Pro chip in single-core scores, the multicore scores are higher for the Samsung phone.

Now that I’ve got the Galaxy S25 Ultra in my hands, it’s time for me to test out its portrait mode performance on a professional headshot shoot with one of my colleagues. For this shootout, though, I’m also capturing headshots with the iPhone 16 Pro Max — currently the top contender in our best camera phones guide.

Now that we have the Galaxy S25 Ultra in hand, we’ve been testing the camera alongside other phones that have recently come out. We’ve already compared it to the OnePlus 13, where we found that OnePlus is less saturated with more natural colors,