It’s been years since the “Edge” name appeared on a Samsung product, but it’s back for its thinnest phone yet.
Phones are getting bigger and bigger, and these days it can feel like you’re carrying a tablet in your pocket at times. With displays ranging between 6.1 and 6.9 inches, it can seem like a short distance to an 8 inch iPad Mini at times, and not far again to a 10 inch tablet, either.
And yet despite these size increases, the mobile still remains relatively thick. A foldable phone can help alleviate some of that feeling, particularly when left open, but the handsets of today are still surprisingly thick.
But last year when Apple launched the M4 iPad Pro, we got a taste of how thin modern devices could be. Granted, the iPad is a tablet, but the 5.1mm thickness of the 13 inch iPad Pro showed us just how thin manufacturers could make their tablets, and phones would clearly be next.
While it’s been over a year since the iPad Pro 13 was launched, the thin phones of the world have continued to stay closer to the 7 and 8mm mark, and that’s not that much thinner.
It makes sense that Samsung is giving a super thin phone a good go, especially since it made the super thin tandem OLED panel used in the iPad Pro.
In the Galaxy S25 Edge, that same thinness is being considered in a phone measuring 5.8mm thick, 2.5mm slimmer than the 8.25mm iPhone 16 Pro and 2mm slimmer than the standard iPhone 16.
Compared to other Samsung Galaxy S25 models — because that’s what it should be compared against — the standard Galaxy S25 is 7.3mm while the Galaxy S25 Ultra is 8.2mm. In either situation, the Galaxy S25 Edge is Samsung’s thinnest current phone, and easily one of the thinnest in the world.
It’s worth pointing out the 5.8mm may not cover the camera extrusion, which does come out from the phone a little bit, and isn’t flush with the body like on the Pixel 9a.
However, the phone isn’t just slim, but also also light weighing 163 grams, lighter than a packet of chips, though that may say more about shrinkflation over the years given how chip packets (and all other food packs) have managed to get smaller.
The point of the S25 Edge is this: this is one of the slimmest phones around, bringing with it a 6.7 inch Quad HD+ AMOLED screen, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite, 12GB RAM, and all the performance and AI smarts of the S25 range to a lightweight system.
Easily one of the more premium Samsung phones, the S25 Edge includes a titanium build, a ceramic variation of Corning’s Gorilla Glass (likely similar to the Ceramic Shield used in the iPhone), and the 200 megapixel camera from the S25 Ultra paired with a 12 megapixel ultra-wide.
What it won’t get is the telephoto cameras from the S25 range, but it will include an AI upscale system for the cameras Samsung calls “ProScaler”, alongside other AI features including Google Gemini and Samsung’s own daily briefing systems.
The Galaxy S25 Edge will also be fairly high priced, found in Australia from $1849 for a 256GB model, while the 512GB variation will cost $2049 locally. Australians can expect to find it in store from May 30, and we’re checking whether New Zealanders will see release, too.
