Samsung has announced the Galaxy S25 Edge, its new top-end smartphone at its May Unpacked event. While it is similar to the Galaxy S25 launched earlier in 2025, the new thinner design should give it an Edge.
Spec for spec, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is remarkably similar to the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It's using the same Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and features a similar 200MP camera. The main difference is the chassis, which has been slimmed down to just 5.8mm thick from the 8.2mm of the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Of course, with a thinner design, the phone is also lighter, now weighing in at just 163g.
The phone also features the same 6.7-inch AMOLED 2X display as the Samsung Galaxy S25, despite it having essentially the same specs as the slightly larger 6.9-inch Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
With a phone this thin and this large, durability is going to be a major concern. Samsung has claimed to address this by upgrading the glass to the new Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, which is supposed to be more durable than the Gorilla Glass Armor 2 found in the Galaxy S25 Ultra. The bigger worry is what will happen to it when you sit on it in your pocket rather than how it will fare being dropped. (Is enough to avoid a new bendgate?)
Of course, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge will also feature the same suite of "Mobile AI" tools that debuted with the Samsung Galaxy S24 last year and were further iterated on in 2025. The Snapdragon 8 Elite does allow for quite a lot of AI work to be done locally on the device, which should help a ton for privacy, but there are still a ton of AI apps out there that are still going to rely on the cloud. Still, Samsung does have a couple of cool features that will summarize notifications and news articles at a glance, if that's something you're into.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is available for preorder today, starting at $1,099 for the 256GB model and $1,219 for the 512GB model. The phone also comes in three different color options: Titanium Silver, Titanium Jet Black, and Titanium Icyblue.
Samsung really wants you to believe this skinny phone is super durable; let's just hope it's right.
Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. You can follow her @Jackiecobra
