Everyone Calm Down, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Is Just a Thin Phone

I ’m unsure where the shockwaves came from yesterday ’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked . But the crowd went wild when Samsung announced it was making the Galaxy S25 Edge in the last few seconds of the issue , even though there ’s nothing concrete to court us over yet . The telephone that Samsung showed off in the demo arena after the tonic was merely a couple of shining slabs hanging on come-on to show its relative thinness to its baby machine .

Nowthat we know it live in some capacity , this will probably be the year we hit peak phone thinness . But that ’s all it is : a thin slice of metal and shabu glued together over a logic plank housing all the components and things . Places like GSMArena already havespecificationsforthe Galaxy S25 Edge , claiming it will have the same television camera system as the Galaxy S25 Ultra , sans the extra macro lense , and an IP68 evaluation for dust and pee . This is your admonisher that we know nothing about anything from Samsung until the company formally bring out it .

Samsung used its tonic to get ahead of everyone else with its smart gang , theGalaxy Ring . This year , rather than focusing on ride theAndroid XR - based Project Moohan , it ’s betting on its longtime fans to show up for the firebrand . The “ edge ” byname is a atavism to when Samsung stick in the Galaxy Note Edge eleven years ago . It had a side in the display on one side , which served as a little action field for notifications . I did n’t wish it when I review the equipment for the outlet I was at , but Gizmodo did .

A photo of the galaxy S25 edge from afar

© Florence Ion / Gizmodo

This whole matter feel like a selling stunt based on the latest rumors about the iPhone 17 Air , or whatever it will be called . A slimmer headphone for Samsung would help the company make another giant , sweeping marketing statement about where it outpaces the iPhone , which seems to be the object for the year touch on the phone wars . This whole stunt screams to me that Samsung isbotheredit ’s about to get knocked out of first station for globular smartphone despatch by Apple — again .

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