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Fresh Galaxy S25 FE leak details storage variants and color options ahead of fall announcement
By no means Samsung's most exciting 2025 product, the Galaxy S25 Fan Edition has been making headlines for several months now, seemingly preparing quite a few important upgrades over its fall 2024-released predecessor. Of course, not everything about the inexpensive Galaxy S24 FE powerhouse will be changed this fall, and the latest rumor on X claims to reveal a couple of the key specifications unlikely to get an upgrade along with a very interesting (and largely reimagined) color palette. Navy;
Icyblue;
Jetblack;
White.
Because Samsung is not Motorola, there are no spectacularly eye-catching or groundbreaking new hues on the above list. But as familiar as those four colorways are likely to sound to many of the company's hardcore fans, it's definitely worth pointing out how different they actually are to the S24 FE's paint jobs.
This terribly blurry picture is our first look at the upcoming Galaxy S25 FE in one of its expected color options. | Image Credit -- Evan Blass on X Last year's Galaxy S24 Fan Edition is available in blue, graphite, gray, mint, and yellow, so Samsung is basically looking to change all those options this year, which is both good and bad in my book. While I'm certainly excited to check out the S25 FE in the "vanilla" S25's Icyblue shade, not to mention a Galaxy S25 Ultra-style Jetblack colorway (sans the titanium build, of course), I can't say I'm too pleased with the prospect of Samsung killing off the sleek mint and yellow options. Then again, that list leaked by the generally reliable Arsène Lupin, aka @MysteryLupin, on X may not be comprehensive, so let's not abandon all hope of seeing the Galaxy S25 FE released in flashier hues as well. To date, the handset has been pictured in a white color, mind you, so that's probably the only version completely etched in stone for the time being. 128GB storage + 8GB RAM;
256GB storage + 8GB RAM.
Now that's a completely unsurprising (and largely underwhelming) "list", which predictably starts at 128 gigs of local digital hoarding room and disappointingly lacks both a 512GB storage variant and 12GB memory option. Clearly, Samsung is primarily focused on keeping the S25 FE's price point as low as possible, although it's probably not very realistic to hope that the new phone will be cheaper than its predecessor. Instead, I expect the S24 FE's $650 starting price to go unchanged, making Samsung's 2025 Fan Edition handset significantly costlier than Google's Pixel 9a, for instance, but also most likely cheaper than the "vanilla" Pixel 10.
The S25 FE could be just as affordable (or as expensive) as the S24 FE. | Image Credit -- PhoneArena Despite rocking a slimmer waist and an overall more elegant design, the S25 Fan Edition is impressively also tipped to bump up its predecessor's battery capacity from 4,700 to 4,900mAh. Unfortunately, no major improvements for the 50 + 8 + 12MP triple rear-facing camera system have been reported so far, and the 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display is virtually guaranteed to stay unchanged in terms of size and resolution as well.
All in all, Samsung is certainly not looking to revolutionize affordable Android high-enders here, nonetheless aiming to make you an offer you can't refuse in September or October... if you can't afford or don't like the compact Galaxy S25 for whatever reason.
