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Samsung debuts Galaxy S25 Edge, as smartphones go slimmer

The US$1,099 device is 5.8mm thick and comes months ahead of Apple’s slimmed-down iPhone 17

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A Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge smartphone on display during an event at its store in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters
Samsung Electronics on Monday rolled out a slimmed-down Galaxy S25 Edge smartphone, kicking off a wave of drastically thinner handsets expected to launch this year.

The company’s latest device, which goes on sale in the US on May 30 for US$1,099, is 5.8mm thick and weighs 163 grams, making it about 30 per cent thinner and 25 per cent lighter than the S25 Ultra, the company’s highest-end smartphone.

The new handset is about as light as the base-model S25, but includes more premium features like a titanium frame, 200-megapixel rear camera and high-end artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

“The amount of weight we’ve pulled out of this device and the slimness of this device is just dramatic,” Blake Gaiser, the company’s head of smartphone product management for the Americas, said in an interview.

A reporter uses a ruler to measure the thickness of the Galaxy S25 Edge handset. Photo: EPA-EFE
A reporter uses a ruler to measure the thickness of the Galaxy S25 Edge handset. Photo: EPA-EFE

“We’ve been hearing from our customers over the last few years that weight and hand feel is something very important to them. As phones are getting bigger and heavier, they’ve really been looking for something that would just disappear in their pocket.”

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