Samsung's still offering a huge free upgrade for S25 fans

Samsung’s brand new Galaxy S25 phones have only just been announced and if you’re interested in an upgrade then there’s a fantastic deal for pre-orders. But this only runs until 6 October, so if you want it, you’ll have to move fast.

This pre-order deal gets you double the storage free, so on the Galaxy S25 Ultra, you can get 512GB for the price of 256GB – saving you £100, or you can get 1TB of storage for the price of 512GB, which saves you £200.

But that’s just the start because Samsung’s pre-order offer goes further than this. There are some excellent trade-in offers, too. This really favours shoppers with an old Samsung device because you could save up to £660 on trade-in, but even if you’ve got an old phone from the Galaxy A range, you could still get £200 off the price.

That could see you slash up to £860 off the price of a new Galaxy S25 Ultra if you had a Galaxy S24 Ultra to trade-in and you take the double storage offer.

But let’s say you bought your Samsung phone a couple of years ago. You have an ageing Galaxy S22 Ultra (1TB) – that’s worth £275 on the trade-in. That could save you £475 when going for the 1TB Galaxy S25 Ultra. Samsung will also let you trade in other brands, so it’s definitely worth looking at.

This pre-order offer can also be combined with 30% off some of Samsung’s accessories, including the Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Buds Pro 3, so you can set yourself up for the full Galaxy experience.

It’s not just from Samsung direct that you can snag yourself a deal: if you pre-order from Amazon, you can find discounts to get that same double storage offer, along with bundles to get you 30% off the latest Samsung accessories too.

• See the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra pre-order on Amazon

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra sees the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite hardware powering it, but it’s tweaked to be a little more powerful for Samsung phones – that’s what the “for Galaxy” part in the name means.

The design as also been refined, so this flagship phone now has flatter sides and slightly more curvy corners and I think it looks a lot better than the previous device. There are some design changes to the cameras too, but importantly there’s a new ultra-wide camera, bumping the resolution to give you better performance.

All the Galaxy S25 devices now come with 12GB RAM to support the Galaxy AI functions that it offers – and they all run on Snapdragon hardware in 2025 – there’s no Exynos to contend with this year.

Fantastic displays, a premium build, new Galaxy AI skills and the promise of 7 years of software updates make the Galaxy S25 models a force to be reckoned with. But at the same time, if you have the Galaxy S24, you might find that there’s not a huge difference.

That’s true – many of the new software features will come to the last generation of phone, and the camera performance is going to be similar. If you have a slightly older device, however, and your battery is getting old or you’re struggling for power, then the Galaxy S25 family represents a good upgrade opportunity.

Samsung isn’t the only phone out there with the latest hardware: this year, we’ve also seen the OnePlus 13 launch, which is available to buy from £899, as well as the new Honor Magic 7 Pro - which is currently cut by £200. both of which offer great cameras and great performance too.

Just remember, if you want that Samsung pre-order deal, you'll have to move fast.