Popular tech YouTuber JerryRigEverything recently posted a teardown video of the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Since then, Samsung has come under a lot of fire from people on the internet about the “fake” camera rings on its latest flagship smartphone. But how fair is this scrutiny?

Galaxy S25 Ultra's camera rings are as ‘fake‘ as every other phone's

The teardown video of the Galaxy S25 Ultra starts with breaking the S Pen to reveal that it has a slot for a battery, similar to previous-generation S Pens, but lacks an actual battery. The S Pen has copper wiring and other circuitry to detect angles and pressure. It just doesn't have Bluetooth for Air Actions.

The phone goes through all sorts of physical abuse testing, including scratching the titanium frame, buttons, and screen.

The Gorilla Glass Armor 2 panel, which protects the phone's screen while offering anti-reflective properties, gets scratched at level 6 of the Moh's hardness scale. The Galaxy S24 Ultra's Gorilla Glass Armor panel started getting scratched at level 7. So, scratch resistance seems to have been slightly reduced this year.

The rings around the phone's rear cameras appear slightly floating above the rest of the phone's back panel. The YouTuber says the rings are purely aesthetic, but that is true for almost all modern smartphones. All the rings around the cameras are for aesthetic purposes only.

As you can see in the video, the YouTuber had to apply a lot of pressure using a sharp knife to pry the camera rings off their place. We don't think anybody should be worried about the camera rings just coming off on their own. Even the YouTuber mentions that they don't believe the camera rings would fall off, but still say that the rings “are just glued into place.”

Despite all this unnecessary controversy, Samsung doesn't appear to have cut corners where it matters most. The phone's body doesn't appear to flex, and it certainly didn't break in half or bend even after being subjected to a lot of pressure.

We think Samsung intentionally kept a gap between the phone's rear panel and the camera rings to give the camera a floating lens look.

So, is it fair that Samsung had to endure the unnecessary controversy surrounding the “fake” camera rings? We don't think so, as no regular user would poke a knife into their phones to pry off the rings. Even if they did, the rings appear pretty strong and won't come off easily.

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