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Android Flagship 2025: the hardware map
A mind map of what Android flagships shipped with in 2025: chips, screens, cameras, batteries and connectivity, shown as ranges across the year's phones.
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This map summarises what Android flagship phones shipped with in 2025. The centre is the year and each branch is a hardware component, such as the CPU, camera, battery or screen. Where a branch shows two figures joined by an arrow, for example 3900 mAh ↗ 7050 mAh, it is the range from the lowest flagship figure to the highest. A vertical bar lists alternatives that exist among the year's phones. The map covers flagships announced in 2025 plus the first Snapdragon 8 Elite phones announced in late 2024, and names the phone behind many range end-points.
A new generation of chips
The Snapdragon 8 Elite, announced in October 2024, brought Qualcomm's own Oryon CPU cores to Android flagships on a 3 nm process. It has eight cores, two prime cores at 4.32 GHz and six performance cores at 3.53 GHz, with no efficiency cores. Samsung's Galaxy S25 series used a for Galaxy version that raises the prime cores to 4.47 GHz.
MediaTek's Dimensity 9400, followed by the 9400+ in April 2025, powered phones such as the vivo X200 Pro and Oppo Find X8 Pro, with a Cortex-X925 prime core at up to 3.73 GHz. Google moved Tensor G5 to TSMC's 3 nm process for the Pixel 10 series, and Samsung's Exynos 2500 appeared in the Galaxy Z Flip7.
Bigger batteries, mixed charging speeds
Battery capacity spread widely. The Galaxy S25 Edge had 3900 mAh, while the RedMagic 10 Pro had 7050 mAh. Silicon-carbon cells, used in phones such as the OnePlus 13 and Oppo Find X8 Ultra, put 6000 mAh and above into mainstream flagships.
Wired charging ran from 25 W on the Galaxy S25, S25 Edge and Z Fold7 up to 120 W on the Realme GT 7 Pro and iQOO 13. Wireless charging ran from 15 W to 80 W, the top figure coming from the Honor Magic7 Pro. The Pixel 10 series added magnets for Qi2 wireless charging, while the Galaxy S25 series was sold as Qi2 Ready, which relies on a magnetic case.
Screens, cameras and what disappeared
Screens stayed OLED, mostly LTPO with adaptive rates from 1 Hz to 120 Hz, and claimed peak brightness ranged from 2000 nits to 6000 nits. The Galaxy S25 Ultra, S25 Edge and Z Fold7 used a 200 MP main sensor, while the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and Oppo Find X8 Ultra used 1-inch-type main sensors. Several phones from Xiaomi, vivo and Honor carried a 200 MP telephoto.
Wi-Fi 7 was common, although the Pixel 10 kept Wi-Fi 6E. Removable storage was rare: the Sony Xperia 1 VII was the one flagship here with a microSD slot, and it kept the 3.5 mm headphone jack, as did the ROG Phone 9 and RedMagic 10 Pro. Android 16 shipped on the Pixel 10 series and Samsung's foldables.
FAQ
Questions about this map
Short answers to what readers ask about it.
Most used the Snapdragon 8 Elite, announced in October 2024. Others used the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 or 9400+, Google's Tensor G5 in the Pixel 10 series, and Samsung's Exynos 2500 in the Galaxy Z Flip7. All four chips were built on 3 nm processes.
Did 2025 flagships still have microSD slots or headphone jacks?
Very few did. In this map the Sony Xperia 1 VII is the one phone with a microSD slot, supporting cards up to 2 TB, and it also keeps the 3.5 mm jack. The ASUS ROG Phone 9 and RedMagic 10 Pro have the jack but no card slot.
How big were batteries and how fast was charging?
Capacities ran from 3900 mAh in the Galaxy S25 Edge to 7050 mAh in the RedMagic 10 Pro. Wired charging ran from 25 W to 120 W, and wireless charging from 15 W up to 80 W on the Honor Magic7 Pro.
Why are Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phones not in this map?
This map counts phones announced in 2025, plus the first Snapdragon 8 Elite phones from late 2024. Phones built on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, such as the Xiaomi 17 series announced on 25 September 2025, belong to the 2026 map.