The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is right here, and with it being priced between the Galaxy S25 Plus and Galaxy S25 Ultra, the slimmest ever Galaxy S cellphone carves out a peculiar spot in Samsung’s cell lineup.
In some methods, it’s a mix of each its big-screen siblings – the Edge has 12GB of RAM and a titanium chassis harking back to the Galaxy S25 Ultra, however at simply 5.8mm and 163g, it is slimmer and lighter than the Galaxy S25 Plus it most carefully resembles.
Having gone hands-on with the Galaxy S25 Edge myself, I can confidently say it’s a powerful gadget, each as a stylishly designed product and a wonderful piece of engineering. Tapping out a Google search seems like typing on nothing, and the cellphone merely disappears into my pocket. Overall, I’m very impressed.
With that mentioned, there’s one side of this new hybrid smartphone that feels somewhat extra confused than composite.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge’s digital camera system finds itself in an fascinating place. The cellphone has the identical glorious 200MP important digital camera because the Galaxy S25 Ultra, alongside the 12MP ultra-wide discovered on the vanilla Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus.
That’s a heck of a distinction – the prized snapper from the most effective digital camera telephones round subsequent to an ultra-wide lens, the likes of which I’ve all the time discovered to be quite pointless.
During my hands-on expertise with the Galaxy S25 Edge, I used to be capable of briefly check out the digital camera app, and whereas decision is never the total story with cell cameras, there’s a noticeable change in high quality when switching between the 2 lenses.
There’s additionally the truth that the Galaxy S25 Edge is the one mannequin within the Galaxy S25 lineup to not characteristic a telephoto digital camera with some stage of optical zoom. Samsung has lengthy stood out from its important rivals like Apple and Google by providing telephoto cameras during its flagship lineup, not simply on dearer fashions.
At a beginning worth of $1,099.99 / £1,099 / AU$1,850, the Galaxy S25 Edge isn’t any price range gadget. It’s somewhat awkward to have the second-most costly cellphone within the lineup lacking a key characteristic sported by its cheaper siblings.
Still, a kind issue like this calls for some sacrifices. Speculatively, I think about a few of the elevated value of the Galaxy S25 Edge has gone into designing a cellphone that may really perform whereas remaining so skinny.
I felt an identical manner when placing collectively our Oppo Find N5 evaluate – the world’s thinnest book-style foldable additionally evidenced some compromises with its digital camera system to attain its kind issue.
As with the Oppo Find N5, I respect why Samsung could have made the selection to equip the Galaxy S25 Edge with a much less highly effective digital camera system – however to be trustworthy, I’d quite have seen the Korean tech big go all out by ditching the second digital camera altogether, and both chopping the value or investing these sources elsewhere.
Even so, the Galaxy S25 Edge will hopefully be straightforward to advocate to photographers. That important digital camera isn’t any joke – the Galaxy S25 Ultra is likely one of the finest digital camera telephones cash can purchase, and to have that very same digital camera on a less expensive (if nonetheless dear) handset is one thing that deserves severe consideration.
More importantly, although, the Galaxy S25 Edge is svelte and lightweight sufficient to go completely wherever, making all of it the better to select up the cellphone and seize moments. Any advice will naturally rely on the cellphone’s battery life and long-term efficiency – be sure you sustain with our Samsung Galaxy Phones protection for the outcomes of our testing.
