The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is finally here... and no one asked for it — but we checked it out anyway! From its edgy new design to features you probably didn’t know you needed (or didn’t want), here’s my unfiltered first impression of Samsung’s latest flagship. Is it innovation or just iteration? Let’s break it down.
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00:00All right this is it your official first look at and hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge
00:08Samsung's ridiculously thin addition to the S25 lineup so this is delayed a bit and the rest of
00:13the lineup has been out for a while since earlier this year but I just know somewhere out there
00:17there was somebody who was waiting for the thinnest possible version of an S25 just a
00:23minimum z-axis dimension this person totally exists and good news for this person it does
00:29actually seem to be a pretty good phone for as thin as it is if you're into that so what I was
00:35really wondering about this phone when it was first revealed or teased was how are they going to position
00:40this is this going to be some ultra high-end phone where they make a huge deal and hype up how thin
00:44it is and they broke physics to make this possible and it turns out the answer which kind of makes
00:49sense is it's it's right between the base S25 and S25 plus and the S25 ultra so the theoretical
00:55customer for this phone is making like a half step up from the base phones but not going all the way
01:01to the ultra so you can think of this S25 edge here as basically an S25 ultra light if that makes sense
01:08it still has the titanium rails from the ultra phone it's in one of three stunningly vibrant colors
01:15black silver or slightly bluish silver but then they also took the primary camera the 200 megapixel huge
01:22sensor from that ultra phone plus all the software and image processing that comes with it then the
01:28second camera is a 12 megapixel ultra wide no telephoto here and then it has the screen from
01:33the S25 plus so it's a 6.7 inch 120 hertz 1440p AMOLED display and then the whole thing is powered by the
01:40Snapdragon 8 Elite just like the rest of the lineup and with all that power and the custom NPU and all the
01:45software features that we expect all the rest of Samsung's phones to have so it feels when you're using it
01:51you know very familiar software wise which is great but when you make a phone this thin 5.8 millimeters
01:58thin to be exact well you know of course there are some obvious trade-offs you have to make Samsung's
02:03not immune to physics so there's no way around it there's just less room inside the phone so that
02:08means less room for internals like a telephoto camera which is missing and there's also less room
02:13for battery so we're back down to a 3900 milliamp hour battery with 25 watt charging 3900 in an android
02:21phone back in the day used to be a lot but now with as powerful as these phones have gotten and with
02:26as bright as these screens have gotten and as big as they are this is like bordering on worryingly small
02:32just for context the S25 plus which is the same size is 4900 milliamp hours and that's not to mention
02:38all the other stuff I got to test when I get it things like cooling like I just don't expect this to
02:42have the same level of heat sink and cooling as the thicker phones but also now that I've held it
02:47as much as I hate to admit it there is also kind of some upside to this ultra thin design too hear me
02:56out so the phone obviously looks incredible I mean this is a sleek and modern design it's impressive
03:02I also think the camera sort of has this floating island design it's actually my favorite design in
03:08the entire S25 lineup so with no case on it this phone looks really good and also underrated it's
03:14much lighter than most flagship phones so the official spec on paper is 163 grams which is it's
03:20basically the same as the small base S25 and so just holding a phone this big in the hand that's that
03:26light there's something about it it's much more convincing holding it than watching a video if you
03:30can get into a store and hold it you'll see but it's one of those things that I can't quite translate
03:34through the screen I definitely felt a certain way watching a bunch of videos of this phone but now
03:39that I've held it you know I was swayed a little bit not gonna lie now I also like that the sides
03:44are flat and then even though the whole point is to be super razor thin they did keep some of those
03:49small things that I think they could have gotten rid of like the physical sim card tray is still here
03:54I think the buttons on the phone are actually slightly smaller just because of how thin it is but then
03:59also the 25 watt charging speed is the same speed as the regular S25s and they kept 15 watt wireless
04:05charging as well on the front it's actually the same Gorilla Glass ceramic 2 as the ultra phone
04:10but without that fancy anti-reflective coating on the ultra some people like me who have used the ultra
04:15will miss that but a lot of people won't actually notice and then inside it's 12 gigs of ram and either
04:20256 or 512 gigs of storage and the starting price 1099 so again right in between the plus
04:28and the ultra so some thoughts okay first of all and a lot of you have already typed this out in
04:34the comments and I can see them below the video already with my psychic powers but people aren't
04:39asking for thinner phones like we know this already matter of fact most people are asking for a slightly
04:44thicker phone to get more battery life and this is the opposite so I expect this phone to have worse
04:51battery life than all of the rest of the s25s I'm not sure how much worse yet I got to test it so get
04:56subscribed to see the full review when it comes out but I can pretty much guarantee it will be worse
05:01second of all though there's also rumors of an iPhone 17 air an ultra thin iPhone coming out at the
05:08end of this year as well I wasn't sure how they would position that phone but I'm now a little more
05:12confident they'll probably also do a sort of middle of the lineup thing but you know Samsung's is out first
05:18so they can say that they did it before Apple and that means a lot to Samsung I think both phones will
05:24have some battery issues to deal with but Samsung did actually keep an ultra wide camera and a physical
05:31sim card tray and the same exact chip as their highest end flagship phone which it looks like
05:37the iPhone will not do any of those things then the other thing is we all know the stats almost
05:42everyone puts a case on their phone so instant reaction is just like oh why would I get a thinner
05:47phone like this when I'm just going to put a case on it and it's just going to end up feeling
05:50like any other regular phone but I do actually think that with how crazy thin and light they've
05:55made it this is one of those phones that you put a thin case on it or you know maybe even a dbrand
06:00skin or something like that but it's still actually going to feel thinner and lighter than a normal
06:04phone with a case on it so if you're one of those rare people who is actually looking for specifically
06:09a thinner phone or a lighter phone but not necessarily a smaller screen then okay yeah this is theoretically
06:17for you matter of fact before I review this phone this is this is the exact customer who I think it
06:22seems like it's aimed at this is someone who is going to upgrade to a Samsung phone somewhere in the
06:28lineup and liked the idea of going all the way up to the ultra because the camera looked really nice
06:33but they don't want to carry this big thick ultra phone with an S pen they'll never use
06:38so they'll get this and they also like the idea of the ultra camera but don't mind having a worse ultra wide
06:46and no telephoto and less battery or just someone who sees a cool commercial thinks it looks shiny
06:52and thin and just buys it anyway but anyway stay tuned for the full review should be coming out
06:56at some point soon thanks for watching catch you in the next one peace