Samsung just proved something most broadcast engineers would’ve laughed at five years ago. You can live-stream an Olympic opening ceremony using phones. And this is the kind of global stage Galaxy S25 Ultra owners paid for.

At Milan’s San Siro Olympic Stadium, 26 Galaxy S25 Ultra units were strategically positioned across the global stage. Each one was feeding real-time footage into the global broadcast as 75,000 attendees and 3,500 athletes kicked off the Winter Olympics.

Samsung, working directly with Olympic Broadcasting Services, deployed the S25 Ultra as legitimate capture hardware. The kind of move that signals where mobile imaging tech actually sits in 2026.

The opening ceremony broadcast captured athlete entrances, crowd reactions, and backstage emotion with the kind of intimate framing that traditional broadcast cameras struggle to access.

Broadcast-grade sensor performance, sub-second latency on wireless transmission, and ProVisual Engine processing that handles dynamic lighting conditions without choking.

Walk through what that setup demanded:

• Multi-camera sync across two dozen devices
• Real-time color grading to match broadcast standards
• Stabilization algorithms to handle crowd movement and tunnel vibrations

The Galaxy S25 Ultra handled it without the usual rig of external batteries, cooling systems, or tethered workstations. It shows the superiority of Samsung smartphones that go beyond just everyday usage when needed.

Source – Samsung

Galaxy Z Flip 7 Olympic Edition

Athletes got their own hardware too; every participant received a Galaxy Z Flip 7 Olympic Edition.

Foldable form factor, Olympic branding, and enough computational photography power to let them document their own once-in-a-lifetime moments.

Source – Samsung

From the athletes’ thrilling entrance to the cheers of spectators, and scenes of them enjoying and anticipating the days before their teams and teammates, Samsung and Galaxy connected the beginning of the world’s greatest sports festival into unforgettable, precious moments.

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