The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Is Here, And It's Super Thin

Samsung has announced the Galaxy S25 Edge, its caller top-end smartphone astatine its May Unpacked event. While it is akin to the Galaxy S25 launched earlier successful 2025, the caller thinner plan should springiness it an Edge.

Spec for spec, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is remarkably akin to the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It's utilizing the aforesaid Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and features a akin 200MP camera. The main quality is the chassis, which has been slimmed down to conscionable 5.8mm heavy from the 8.2mm of the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Of course, with a thinner design, the telephone is besides lighter, present weighing successful astatine conscionable 163g.

The telephone besides features the aforesaid 6.7-inch AMOLED 2X show arsenic the Samsung Galaxy S25, contempt it having fundamentally the aforesaid specs arsenic the somewhat larger 6.9-inch Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

With a telephone this bladed and this large, durability is going to beryllium a large concern. Samsung has claimed to code this by upgrading the solid to the caller Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, which is expected to beryllium much durable than the Gorilla Glass Armor 2 recovered successful the Galaxy S25 Ultra. The bigger interest is what volition hap to it erstwhile you beryllium connected it successful your pouch alternatively than however it volition fare being dropped. (Is capable to debar a caller bendgate?)

Of course, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge volition besides diagnostic the aforesaid suite of "Mobile AI" tools that debuted with the Samsung Galaxy S24 past twelvemonth and were further iterated connected successful 2025. The Snapdragon 8 Elite does let for rather a batch of AI enactment to beryllium done locally connected the device, which should assistance a ton for privacy, but determination are inactive a ton of AI apps retired determination that are inactive going to trust connected the cloud. Still, Samsung does person a mates of chill features that volition summarize notifications and quality articles astatine a glance, if that's thing you're into.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is disposable for preorder today, starting astatine $1,099 for the 256GB exemplary and $1,219 for the 512GB model. The telephone besides comes successful 3 antithetic colour options: Titanium Silver, Titanium Jet Black, and Titanium Icyblue.

Samsung truly wants you to judge this skinny telephone is ace durable; let's conscionable anticipation it's right.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra