The Galaxy S25 is Samsung’s first phone to support Android’s Instant Hotspot feature

One of the best things about the Android ecosystem is that you have the freedom to pick and choose devices. You can buy a phone, tablet, and smartwatch from different companies, and they’ll generally work well together. Sometimes, there are features that you can only get if you buy devices from the same brand. If you want the ability to seamlessly share your Samsung phone’s Internet access with your tablet, for instance, you have to buy a Samsung tablet. Thankfully, that’s no longer true if you buy the Galaxy S25, as it’s Samsung’s first phone to support Android’s Instant Hotspot feature.

Besides the great deals that it offers, Samsung makes it really tempting to buy one of its tablets alongside one of its phones by building great cross-device software features that only work within the Samsung ecosystem. One such feature is called Auto Hotspot, which makes it incredibly easy to share the Internet connection of Samsung phones with other Samsung devices. Because Auto Hotspot is only available on Samsung devices, if you buy other Android tablets, you can’t use the feature. Instead, you have to manually enable the hotspot on your Samsung phone and connect to it from your Android tablet.