India, Aug. 13 -- Six Months In, Honest and Technical

I've never been the kind of person who upgrades his phone every year. I like to live with a device long enough to know its moods - the way it behaves when the battery is old, the way it feels in my back pocket after a long day, the way it survives the ordinary chaos of a life that involves trains, rickshaws, spilled chai, and a toddler who treats every phone as a chew toy. So when I finally picked up the Samsung Galaxy S25, I told myself I wasn't going to write a pure "spec sheet" review - but I also wasn't going to pretend the specs don't matter. They do. What I want to give you here is both: the real numbers under the hood, and what those numbers actually translate to in the hands o...