Samsung has introduced the Galaxy S25 Edge, its new top-end smartphone at its May Unpacked occasion. While it’s just like the Galaxy S25 launched earlier in 2025, the brand new thinner design ought to give it an Edge.
Spec for spec, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is remarkably just like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s utilizing the identical Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and encompasses a comparable 200MP digital camera. The primary distinction is the chassis, which has been slimmed down to simply 5.8mm thick from the 8.2mm of the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Of course, with a thinner design, the cellphone can also be lighter, now weighing in at simply 163g.
The cellphone additionally options the identical 6.7-inch AMOLED 2X show because the Samsung Galaxy S25, regardless of it having primarily the identical specs as the marginally bigger 6.9-inch Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
With a cellphone this skinny and this massive, sturdiness goes to be a significant concern. Samsung has claimed to deal with this by upgrading the glass to the brand new Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, which is meant to be extra sturdy than the Gorilla Glass Armor 2 discovered within the Galaxy S25 Ultra. The greater fear is what is going to occur to it if you sit on it in your pocket quite than the way it will fare being dropped. (Is sufficient to keep away from a brand new bendgate?)
Of course, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge may even function the identical suite of “Mobile AI” instruments that debuted with the Samsung Galaxy S24 final yr and had been additional iterated on in 2025. The Snapdragon 8 Elite does enable for various AI work to be accomplished regionally on the system, which ought to assist a ton for privateness, however there are nonetheless a ton of AI apps on the market which can be nonetheless going to depend on the cloud. Still, Samsung does have a few cool options that may summarize notifications and information articles at a look, if that is one thing you are into.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is accessible for preorder immediately, beginning at $1,099 for the 256GB mannequin and $1,219 for the 512GB mannequin. The cellphone additionally is available in three completely different shade choices: Titanium Silver, Titanium Jet Black, and Titanium Icyblue.
Samsung actually desires you to imagine this skinny cellphone is tremendous sturdy; let’s simply hope it is proper.
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