Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Review: Super Thin With a Catch

That past portion is nan problem pinch nan Edge: It has a paltry 3,900-mAh artillery capacity. That's nan smallest of nan Galaxy S25 series, 100 mAh smaller than nan compact Galaxy S25. Samsung has made immoderate smart optimizations to maximize nan artillery life of this mini cell, but there's only truthful overmuch it tin do. The Galaxy S25 Edge's artillery life is not bully capable for a $1,100 phone.

Over nan past week, I've been walking pinch nan Edge to screen Google I/O, and I've had to retrieve to complaint it successful nan day connected astir days. When I was distant from a charger, I consciously decided to debar utilizing nan telephone truthful arsenic not to drain nan battery. I've often only had 4 hours of screen-on clip by nan extremity of nan time earlier nan instrumentality hits 15 percent. Mind you, pinch ray to mean use, this handset tin past conscionable astir a day. Then again, if your needs are light, you hardly need to walk $1,100 to get a awesome phone.

In my 10 years of reviewing phones, I've often heard grumbles from nan group astir maine erstwhile companies present thinner phones pinch smaller batteries. I person besides heard complaints that phones are getting excessively big. The S25 Edge is still big—folks pinch smaller paws than maine will still find it difficult to scope nan apical of nan screen—but nan bigger size doesn't bring nan use of a bigger battery. It begs nan question, who is this for?

If you've bemoaned nan aforesaid things, nan clear victor for you is simply a folding flip phone. Devices for illustration nan Motorola Razr Ultra and nan Galaxy Z Flip6 will match, if not connection somewhat amended artillery life than nan Edge, but you tin fold them up and stow them successful a pouch aliases purse moreover much nicely. No request to sacrifice surface size. Or conscionable get nan bully and compact Galaxy S25, which will past a smidge longer than nan Edge.

Fringe Price

Samsung is positioning nan Galaxy S25 Edge arsenic a telephone for powerfulness users who want galore of nan capabilities of nan Galaxy S25 Ultra without nan monolithic surface and weight. But nan Edge has much compromises than conscionable having nan worst artillery life: it charges much slowly, there's nary S Pen stylus, and there's nary telephoto zoom camera. It does person a fewer perks complete nan cheaper S25 and S25+, though, specified arsenic nan expertise to seizure 4K video astatine 120 frames per second.

The results from nan 200-MP superior camera and 12-MP ultrawide cameras are crisp and colorful. You won't find excessively overmuch to kick about. However, I kept trying to zoom successful connected a batch of shots, and while nan 2x integer zoom has decent quality, things deteriorate rather quickly astatine further zoom options. It's uncommon to find a $1,000+ smartphone coming without a 3x aliases 5x optical zoom camera, and it's sorely missed here.