Summary
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The Galaxy S25 Age acquires its ultra-skinned design by compromising important characteristics such as battery life and camera capabilities.
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The manufacturers have pushed thinness for a long time as innovation, even though many users still prefer better batteries and cameras.
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The trend of ultra-split phone like S25 Edge and iPhone 17 Air is an indispensable future standard, even if you think you don’t want it.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge has been announced. It is thin, it is expensive, and online feedback is positively positive. But if you feel that this is a gimmick that no one asked for, then I am not sure. Thin phones are to live here.
S25 Edge has more compromise than strength
It is appropriate to say that the announcement of the Galaxy S25 Edge was congratulated with a certain amount of skepticism. It is undoubtedly an impressive piece of design, dropping the whole thing down to only 5.8 mm (until you ignore the heavy camera collision) and make it much lighter than other phones with the same size of the screen.
Nevertheless, to do this, Samsung has to compromise a lot – as much as you normally expect in a device costing more than $ 1000.
The main is a battery. Samsung opted not to switch to the new range of the silicon-carbon battery which allows for high capacity in small size. We have seen them in a phone like OnePlus 13, and they live for a complete publicity. Samsung stuck with the old lithium-ion battery instead, and the result is that the capacity of 3900mAh makes it the smallest in the entire S25 range. It will also be the worst battery life in the entire range.
Other compromises are in the camera. The S25 is the only phone in the S25 range without an age zoom lens. Instead, it depends on the crop in an image from the main camera to produce a form of digital zoom. Pixel phones also do this, and when the results are perfectly useable, they do not compare having a hardware dedicated to the job.
The main camera sensor is 200MP like S25 Ultra. But this is not the same sensor; It is small, so the quality of the image is unlikely to be the same level.
And there are some other areas where corners need to be cut. The CPU has seven core instead of eight, and the speed of charging is estimated at 25W instead of 45W.
The S25 Edge is a flagship phone, but the main sales point is not the glasses, but the design. But if you hope that thin was just an unnecessary gimmick, then it’s okay, you will get used to it better.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge
Samsung’s latest flagship phone provides the company’s bleeding-edge technology in a slim form factor. If you pre-order the Galaxy S25 Edge directly from Samsung, you will get a free upgrade in the credit $ 50 and 512GB model in the credit.
Thin future is
Smartphone manufacturers have always extinguished thinness as a sign of progress, and they emphasize it that it is what consumers really want.
Back by 2012, Wired reporting On criticism, HTC found its phone to equip with a small battery, and how the company explained that its research suggests that users needed thin phones instead of long battery life.
This was not true, and still not. Although there is no doubt that many people who prioritize slick design in their phones, the average user wants a long -term battery life, followed by a better camera. Unitedly, I would also say that more people care about thick bezels than the thickness of the phone.
But not going back. Later was expected in 2025 with the launch of Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone 17 Air, Thin would become a new standard. Apple is expected to leave his “plus” iPhone to make a place for a thin version, and there is speculation that Samsung will do the same with S26.
And then other manufacturers will follow. It will take some time to filter through every range and brand, and it is not clear how thin a small screen phone can be. But at a time when boring, identicit device, thinness due to lack of innovation is a very visible way to show how the company’s phones are getting better.
They will be expensive for some time, and facilities will be compromised. But whether we want them or not, I don’t think they are going away.
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S25 is going on sales beyond the age, there are many questions that need to be answered. How strong is it? Is the battery life as bad as many expectations? Does putting it in a case reject the entire point of the survival of the phone?
No matter how this came out, the fact is that the whole industry has been moving in this direction for years. The phone manufacturers will shave half a millimeter from every generation, or sometimes just give their equipment curved edges so that they feel thin in the hand. Edge and upcoming air is the next stage in that process. Whether it likes or not, they are future.
