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Samsung Debuts New Super Thin Galaxy S25 Edge
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Yeah they got Apple beat on the hardware I gather but the software is not even nearly as polished. How can anyone work with the Android virus day after day? It crashes way too often at work at least once a day.
Samsung today introduced the Galaxy S25 Edge, an ultra thin smartphone that will compete with Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 "Air." The Galaxy S25 Edge features a 6.7-inch AMOLED display and it measures in at 5.8mm thick.
Comparatively, rumors suggest that the iPhone 17 Air will have a 6.6-inch display and a thickness of 5.5mm, so it may be slightly smaller and thinner than the S25 Edge. The Galaxy S25 Edge weighs 163 grams, so the thin design and the light weight are noticeable when it is compared to a standard Galaxy S25 Ultra or a current iPhone 16 Pro Max. The Galaxy S25 Ultra weighs 218 grams, while the iPhone 16 Pro Max weighs 227 grams.
Samsung is using a titanium frame for the Galaxy S25 Edge, which is also what we're expecting for the iPhone 17 Air. It also includes Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, which Samsung says improves resilience.
While the iPhone 17 Air will only get a single 48-megapixel Wide lens, Samsung equipped the Galaxy S25 Edge with a dual-lens camera setup. There's a 200-megapixel wide-angle lens and a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens.
Aside from the thin and light design, the Galaxy S25 Edge is basically identical to the other smartphones in the Galaxy S25 lineup, offering the same performance and feature set. It includes the Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform from Qualcomm, and a revamped vapor chamber for heat dissipation.
It has AI tools like Drawing Assist and Audio Eraser, along with ProScaler for improved image scaling functionality. There's a Now Brief and Now Bar with AI-updated information that changes throughout the day and incorporates info from third-party apps, plus it includes Google Gemini features thanks to Samsung's partnership with Google.
Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge can be pre-ordered from the Samsung website, and pricing starts at $1,099.99 for the 256GB model. Samsung is offering a $50 credit for those who pre-order, and upgrading anyone who purchases the 256GB model to 512GB. The deal is available through May 30.
Samsung is also offering up to $630 in trade-in credits toward the purchase of a Galaxy S25 Edge.
Article Link: Samsung Debuts New Super Thin Galaxy S25 Edge
I know I was just being nice, and Qualcomm quickly got there from their purchase of Nuvia. They'll probably be beating Apple soon enough, though.
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If my opinion mattered, I'd rather have an iPhone mini option for every new iPhone version
I wonder how many people are like you. I need better battery life and I'm not even a power user.
It looks nice, but I just can't use Android as my daily driver and I have a S25 Ultra. It's always secondary or collecting dust compare to my iPhone's.
Samsung knows how to do thin.
I bought one of these back in the day. It was marketed as the world's thinnest phone back then.
www.phonescoop.com
For a smartphone, my benchmark for light weight is the iPhone 5s at 112 gm (3.95oz).
My current iPhone SE is 144 gm (5.1oz).
Therefore I would find the S25 Edge at 163 gm to be heavy.
I bought one of these back in the day. It was marketed as the world's thinnest phone back then.
Samsung SGH-T519 Trace
This close cousin of the wafer-thin X820 steps down to a 1.3 megapixel camera, but adds a memory card slot and GSM 850. Other features include stereo Bluetooth and EDGE data.
www.phonescoop.com
For a smartphone, my benchmark for light weight is the iPhone 5s at 112 gm (3.95oz).
My current iPhone SE is 144 gm (5.1oz).
Therefore I would find the S25 Edge at 163 gm to be heavy.
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That camera bump almost looks like it's gonna hurt. Looks so sharp and sticks out even more like a sore thumb, due to the device itself being much thinner.
There's a even thinner phone launched back in 2015: BLU Vivo Air at 5.1 mm.12.5 years later, and we finally got a phone that's thinner than the 5th generation iPod touch (6.1mm).
Though, even with the camera bump on that iPod, I bet the camera bump on this phone is much thicker, making the 0.3mm difference actually less.
That’s always been their way, but I don’t blame them. It’s an opportunity given that today’s Apple have no idea how to keep things under wraps and prevent leaking, and are extremely slow in bringing their new products to market.
I for one, speaking only for said one, am tiring of lugging around my regular 15 Pro. Yes yes yes, it does amazing things and the camera is awesome and battery is the best battery in an iPhone ever and it's lighter than the 14 Pro bla bla bla. It's the pinnacle of iphones...(16 is practically just identical).
Soooo...I just booted up my trusty old iPhone 6 because I found out I had forgotten to move some pics over. And man oh man oh man man man. What an absolute delight to hold in my hands!!! I even slid it down my pocket to feel what it was like. I didn't notice it.
So who's this "thin phone" for you all ask?
I am ALSO tiring of using my phone as my main connection hub to everything digital. I used to do everything on my desktop, then it was just practical to use my phone...
But I've come to the realisation and I believe there's a sort of convergence point between complexity of function/number of functions and usability. The more stuff your phone can do or the higher the complexity of the functions within a function, the more limited you feel by using a small screened device. And I count the Max-type phones in this category as well.
Using the phone for absolutely EVERYTHING, both business and pleasure, is starting for me to blur the lines between "that's fun" and "that's just a chore". Currently every time I even see my phone I'm more on the "that's just a chore" feeling.
I am starting to move more and more tasks over to my 12.9 iPad Pro and desktop computer again. It just feels so much less constrained. It actually feels like I have more "mental wiggleroom" when doing tasks. My phone is such a small focus point that it feels like I'm mentally tensing up. Don't know how to to explain it exactly. But the CONSTANT notifications and and other stuff on the phone also contributes. But the size of screen is my main gripe. And it's not a "just make the text bigger" issue. It's the "denseness" of information.
So...who's it for?
I want my phone to do these things :
1. Make voice calls of some sort
2. Receive and send text messages
3. Take decent pictures...
Everything else I'm doing on a big iPad or desktop now.
I am willing to go down on phone function and use that saving to increase my spending on a) desktop and b) tablet.
My iPhone is honestly starting to feel like my mother in law. I'd like to avoid it as much as possible, but I'd like our interactions to go as smoothly as possible.
That's who.
Soooo...I just booted up my trusty old iPhone 6 because I found out I had forgotten to move some pics over. And man oh man oh man man man. What an absolute delight to hold in my hands!!! I even slid it down my pocket to feel what it was like. I didn't notice it.
So who's this "thin phone" for you all ask?
I am ALSO tiring of using my phone as my main connection hub to everything digital. I used to do everything on my desktop, then it was just practical to use my phone...
But I've come to the realisation and I believe there's a sort of convergence point between complexity of function/number of functions and usability. The more stuff your phone can do or the higher the complexity of the functions within a function, the more limited you feel by using a small screened device. And I count the Max-type phones in this category as well.
Using the phone for absolutely EVERYTHING, both business and pleasure, is starting for me to blur the lines between "that's fun" and "that's just a chore". Currently every time I even see my phone I'm more on the "that's just a chore" feeling.
I am starting to move more and more tasks over to my 12.9 iPad Pro and desktop computer again. It just feels so much less constrained. It actually feels like I have more "mental wiggleroom" when doing tasks. My phone is such a small focus point that it feels like I'm mentally tensing up. Don't know how to to explain it exactly. But the CONSTANT notifications and and other stuff on the phone also contributes. But the size of screen is my main gripe. And it's not a "just make the text bigger" issue. It's the "denseness" of information.
So...who's it for?
I want my phone to do these things :
1. Make voice calls of some sort
2. Receive and send text messages
3. Take decent pictures...
Everything else I'm doing on a big iPad or desktop now.
I am willing to go down on phone function and use that saving to increase my spending on a) desktop and b) tablet.
My iPhone is honestly starting to feel like my mother in law. I'd like to avoid it as much as possible, but I'd like our interactions to go as smoothly as possible.
That's who.
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No silicon battery so battery life will be severely compromised. I would have imagined the whole point of a 2025 thin phone would be to demonstrate what could be achieved with battery life AND thinness. It may happen next year but for now it's a compromise and not one that interests me.
This makes me look forward to the 17Air model even more.
Not everyone needs a battery that lasts 2 days.
I have plenty left over at the end of the day with my “heavy” 13 Pro.
Looking forward to carrying something less chunky/bulky/heavy.
I just hope that single camera on the 17Air isn’t bad and the 2x cropping zoom is acceptable enough. Won’t miss the ultra wide in the slightest.
Not everyone needs a battery that lasts 2 days.
I have plenty left over at the end of the day with my “heavy” 13 Pro.
Looking forward to carrying something less chunky/bulky/heavy.
I just hope that single camera on the 17Air isn’t bad and the 2x cropping zoom is acceptable enough. Won’t miss the ultra wide in the slightest.
If they can make it as thin as a credit card I can slip it into my old wallet I’ve not used since 10 years back
That would be progress and I can essentially use my chunky wallet as a case without having to buy a new one.
That would be progress and I can essentially use my chunky wallet as a case without having to buy a new one.
There are many people that don't use the phone for hours a day. And for those people, having a lighter and smaller phone would be a pro, not a con, cuz they wouldn't run out of battery anyway.