Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Assessment: Slim, Glossy, However Dwelling On The Edge

	Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge – Beginning At $1,099, Discover It On Samsung.com Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge is a 5.8mm skinny cellphone that gives flagship specs for a flagship value on the expense of digicam zoom efficiency and battery life..
	Skinny and lightweight design Attractive show Excellent important digicam High quality audio system Stable efficiency Characteristic-rich software program Sharp, shiny show with 120Hz refresh ×Quick 80W charging and included plug ×Glorious efficiency with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 ×Alert slider is again	It’s costly No telephoto shooter Middling battery life

Tremendous-slim telephones are making a comeback. Samsung not too long ago launched the 5.8mm skinny Galaxy S25 Edge ($1,099) and Apple can be anticipated to announce a 5.5mm skinny iPhone 17 Air later this 12 months. However that is nothing new. In 2016, Motorola unveiled the Moto Z, a 5.2mm skinny flagship that dropped the headphone jack for a USB Sort-C dongle a month earlier than Apple’s iPhone 7 ditched the usual 3.5mm port for AirPods.

Going additional again, in 2014, Oppo and Vivo each launched ultra-slim handsets – the Oppo R5 (4.85mm) and Vivo X5Max (4.75mm). However these units have been stuffed with compromises, with horrible battery life and a (normal on the time) single rear digicam. Right here and now, 10+ years later, we anticipate telephones at each value level and each type issue to final days on a cost and have at the least two rear shooters (three for flagships).

The Galaxy S25 Edge is priced like a flagship cellphone ($1,099) and configured like a flagship (Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite) but, for the sake of thinness, it packs a smaller 3,900mAh battery and solely two rear cameras. So, does Samsung’s latest handset make the identical compromises as its skinny predecessors? Does its slim, modern design present sufficient worth for its tradeoffs? Or is the S25 Edge only a gimmick? Discover out in our full overview.

Galaxy S25 Edge {Hardware}, Design, And Construct High quality

Consider the Galaxy S25 Edge as a slimmer (5.8mm), lighter (163g), and smaller Galaxy S25 Extremely, however with two rear shooters as an alternative of 4, and also you’ve acquired the suitable concept. Each have slab-sided matte titanium frames and extra squared-off corners than the S25 and S25+, and each appear and feel ultra-premium. In entrance, the Galaxy S25 Edge makes use of the identical 6.7-inch show and 12MP selfie digicam because the S25+, however it’s protected by Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2.

Across the again, a vertical, pill-shaped digicam pod adorns the highest left nook of the Gorilla Glass Victus 2 rear panel and additional contributes to the S25 Edge’s distinctive design. Two round, metal-rimmed lenses – one for the 12MP ultrawide (high), and one for the 200MP important shooter (center) — additional protrude from this pill-shaped island, and are joined by a smaller, round LED flash (backside) that’s mounted flush with the pill-shaped bump.

However, as a result of this two-tiered digicam bump is 4.2mm thick, the S25 Edge actually likes to wobble when positioned on a flat floor. The button and port format mimics the S25 and S25+’s. You’ll discover the quantity rocker and energy/lock key on the suitable facet, and the mmWave antenna on the left. The primary speaker, USB Sort-C port (USB 3.2), major mic, and nano-SIM tray are situated alongside the underside edge, and one other pair of mics are mounted on high.

The S25 Edge is rated IP68 for mud and water resistance, and is on the market in three surprisingly muted hues: Titanium Icyblue (like our overview unit), Titanium Silver, Titanium Jetblack. We’d have most popular a barely extra fascinating shade palette since utilizing a case would compromise this cellphone’s spectacular thinness. As a result of right here’s the factor: it’s not possible to wrap your head round how skinny and lightweight the S25 Edge is, till you deal with it.

And once you do, it’s a revelation. Images and movies don’t actually do the S25 Edge justice. There’s one thing about rocking a slim handset day-in, day-out. After some time, each different cellphone simply appears totally bloated. We can’t overstate how a lot of a distinction thickness and weight make. At 5.8mm and 163g, the S25 Edge isn’t even that skinny and lightweight, but it appears extremely futuristic, and feels completely incredible in hand.

What’s much more spectacular is that Samsung managed to pack a flagship-grade AMOLED display screen, 200MP digicam (similar because the S25 Extremely’s), pair of high quality audio system, Snapdragon 8 Elite, vapor chamber, mmWave antenna, ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor, and wi-fi charging coil inside a handset that’s lower than 4 quarters thick. The S25 Edge even survived JerryRigEverything’s famously unforgiving bend take a look at.

Earlier than we proceed, watch our hands-on video:

Galaxy S25 Edge Specs And Options

Galaxy S25 Edge Show High quality

As you’d anticipate from Samsung, the Galaxy S25 Edge boasts a stunning show. It’s the identical 6.7-inch 19.5:9 Quad HD+ (3120 × 1440 pixels, 513 ppi, HDR10+) Dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2x panel discovered on the S25+, with the identical small, even bezels, however with extra squared-off corners. This display screen encompasses a 1-120Hz variable refresh charge and is tremendous shiny (2600 nits peak), with vibrant colours, deep blacks, and wonderful viewing angles.

All that’s lacking right here is the S25 Extremely’s superior anti-glare coating.

Galaxy S25 Edge Digital camera Efficiency And Picture High quality

Imaging is the place the Galaxy S25 Edge’s compromises start. Whereas it inherits the S25 Extremely’s 200MP f/1.7 0.6-micron important shooter with omni-directional PDAF and OIS (1/1.3-inch Samsung ISOCELL HP2), and encompasses a 12MP f/2.2 1.4-micron 120-degree ultrawide with PDAF plus a 12MP f/2.2 1.12-micron selfie digicam with dual-pixel PDAF (which have each appeared on Samsung flagships earlier than), the S25 Edge lacks a telephoto lens.

This wouldn’t be an enormous deal if this was a $499 cellphone like Google’s Pixel 9a, however the S25 Edge is a $1,099 flagship that tops out at simply 10x (digital) magnification, and doesn’t even provide the sort of intelligent AI zoom algorithms we noticed on the OnePlus 13. As such, 10x photos are usable, however exhibit a big loss intimately. On the plus facet, 4x photographs are respectable, and 2x photos are good, due to quasi-“lossless” zoom through in-sensor cropping.

In fact, photograph high quality drops even additional when zooming in low gentle. When capturing at 1x, the 200MP sensor makes use of 16-to-1 pixel binning to create 12MP photos with 2.4-micron pixels. At 2x, cropping the 200MP sensor right down to 50MP and making use of 4-to-1 pixel binning leads to 12MP photographs with 1.2-micron pixels. Zooming to 4x means additional cropping the 200MP sensor and capturing 12MP photos with 0.6-micron pixels (no binning).

Lacking telephoto apart, the S25 Edge takes nice pictures – so long as you retain magnification beneath 4x in the course of the day and 2x at night time. As you’d anticipate, the 200MP important shooter matches the S25 Extremely’s and delivers sharp photos with pure colours, correct publicity, stable dynamic vary, and respectable low-light efficiency. Ultrawide photographs and selfie photos are pretty too, and video high quality rivals Apple’s iPhone, which isn’t any small feat.

Taking pictures modes embody macro, portrait, night time, professional, 200/50MP (important solely), panorama, meals, extremely regular (as much as 1440p/1080p 60fps), portrait video (4k/1080p 30fps), professional video (8k 30/24fps or 4k/1080p 120/60/30/24fps with HDR10+ and LOG assist), gradual movement (4k 120fps, 1080p 240/120fps), Hyperlapse (4k/1080p 30fps), Single Take, and Twin Rec (4k/1080p 30fps) – which lets you mix video from any two of the three cameras.

Video recording is stabilized and maxes out at 8k 30fps (important) and 4k 60fps (all shooters). Audio is captured in stereo (with elective zoom) or 360 levels (through suitable headphones and earbuds). Samsung’s Digital camera Assistant app permits you to tweak extra imaging settings, and the Professional RAW app provides you entry to extra digicam options, like astrophotography, RAW assist, and a 24MP mode (vs. 12MP by default).

Subsequent up: audio, efficiency, and battery life…