Grass is growing on my phone and I'm powerless to stop it

Touching the grass texture of a DBrand Touch Grass skin on a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

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As I pulled the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra out of my pocket, an unfamiliar friction met my fingers. This wasn't the matte glass texture that I'm used to feeling from Samsung's latest flagship. No, instead, was it the coarse texture of a brush or, dare I suggest it, turf grass?