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I believe I’ll adjust my zoom

You don’t get as many cameras here as you do with the other S25s: a 200MP main snapper with 2x optical zoom, a 12MP ultrawide and a 12MP selfie-cam.

Touch me in the Corning

You might worry that a phone so thin would be easy to break, but it’s rated IP69 and has Corning’s new Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, which can be dropped onto concrete.

Kick out the grams

The titanium-framed Edge is light as well as slim: 163g is 27g less than the S25+. That difference is about the weight of a mouse (the mammal, not the peripheral).

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THE THINNER TAKES IT ALL

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge

You wouldn’t describe many top-level 2025 smartphones as portly, but next to the S25 Edge some of them do start to look a little on the thick side: at just 5.8mm, this new Samsung is 1.5mm thinner than the S25+ (which has the same-sized 6.7in Dynamic AMOLED 2X screen), and a full 2mm skinnier than the 6.1in iPhone 16. Those might be small numbers, but the difference feels pretty big.

The Edge uses the same Snapdragon 8 Elite processor as its bigger brothers, with 12GB of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of storage, so you’re not sacrificing power for slimness.