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00:00This is Samsung's brand new S25 Edge. It's just 5.8mm thick, which makes it almost 30% thinner
00:06than the S25 Ultra. And it's looking very likely that this is just the start of an entire wave of
00:11ultra-slim, high-end phones. And so clearly, I have questions. Firstly, how? How have they built
00:17a phone that much thinner than their others? Secondly, why? Like, who's asking for these
00:22thin phones? What's the supposed benefit? And then finally, should you really consider buying
00:26it? Or is this actually just a very pretty-looking money trap? So the how part of this equation
00:32is pretty simple. Samsung have made this phone so thin by taking their top-end Galaxy S25 Ultra
00:37and chopping things up. The Edge has two fewer cameras. There's no 3x zoom camera. There's
00:42no 5x zoom camera. And this whole laser autofocus thing over here, that's gone too. And while
00:46the phone does still keep an ultrawide camera, that's been downgraded. So instead of the 50
00:51megapixel one on the Ultra, the Edge has 12. But that is not all. There's no S Pen baked
00:55inside, like there is on the Ultra. The screen doesn't have that absolutely amazing anti-reflective
01:00coating that improves visibility. The speakers. I was sitting there doing some blind testing
01:04and exactly as you'd expect, given that there's less space inside the phone, the ones on the
01:09Edge have quite a bit less of a thump than the ones on the Ultra. All finished off by also
01:13a significantly smaller battery. 3,900 mAh on the Edge compared to 5,000 mAh. Now, if the
01:20question you're asking me is, has all of this feature cutting made the phone feel better
01:25in the hands? My answer would be, hell yeah. Picking this phone up was very reminiscent
01:30of my first time picking up a MacBook Air or one of the new iPads. 30% thinner and 25%
01:36lighter might not sound like transformative figures, but they absolutely feel like them.
01:41And I think it feels particularly good because unlike most light phones, which achieve that
01:45lightness by using cheap plastic, this is light while still having that premium titanium construction
01:51and the top-end Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 on its screen. It just feels cool that you can have
01:56this form factor while still having most modern luxuries, like an ultra-bright, almost borderless
02:01display, like all the AI shenanigans, like Samsung's extremely good object eraser and generative
02:07AI editor. Here is where it gets a little bit strange. While Samsung have managed to make
02:12this phone thinner by cutting all these features down, the one thing they haven't cut is the price.
02:18The S25 Edge is releasing at £1,099 here in the UK, which, yes, is £150 cheaper than what
02:25the S25 Ultra launched at. But then if you look at what you can get the S25 Ultra for now,
02:30it's the same price. Like, exactly. From Samsung. So, what? You can either buy the phone with
02:37everything, or you can buy the phone without everything, and you pay the same. Which brings
02:42me to the why. Why, then, did Samsung make something that, when you glance at the spec sheet,
02:47looks like they lost a bet with the design in turn? Well, here is why I think it's not a stupid
02:53idea. If you're a consumer and you've got a high income, I don't think it's a crazy idea that you
02:57might want to spend £1,100 on a phone. It's like the single possession that you're going to be spending
03:02most of your spare time on for maybe the next five years. But then previously, if you'd looked at
03:07Samsung's phone lineup before the Edge, you'd run into a bit of a block. But if you're not a
03:12particularly techie consumer, if you're not someone who's specifically looking for 100 times space zoom
03:17on your camera, or this incredibly advanced, smart, pencil-like experience embedded within the
03:22phone, then you don't really have any incentive to spend more than the £850 that you would need to
03:27buy an S25 Plus. That might actually be the better phone for you than the Ultra, because it's just
03:33slimmer and more compact. And so I think the reason that the S25 Edge exists is to create an alternate
03:38path. You want to spend more, you don't really crave all the extra tech from going down the Ultra line,
03:43so this allows you to spend that extra on style instead. Now it does have a few things in common
03:48with the Ultra. Like it still has the same top-of-the-line 200 megapixel camera that only Samsung's
03:54Ultra phones have previously had. They have flattened the lens structure to keep it slim, which does seem
03:59to make the output slightly softer than that of the S25 Ultra. I took this photo like six times and
04:04every time it was slightly less good, but still better than what you would get on an S25 Plus.
04:10Same for the Ultra Wide. While the quality isn't as good as the Ultra's, at least this Ultra Wide does
04:14still have autofocus like that one, which means you can also use it for close-up macro shots. This
04:19ceramic 2 glass on the front is similar in strength to the Ultra and stronger than the Victus 2 glass that
04:25you get on pretty much any other Samsung phone. And also, shout out to this real-time visual AI
04:31feature, which has come out since the S25's launch. The execution isn't perfect, but the concept of it
04:36is insane. So you know how you can already do real-time chats with Gemini using Gemini Live?
04:41This is like the app, but you can now also be on a video call with it, which means things like
04:46you can pick up a coffee maker, for example, and be like, is this where I put the beans? And it will
04:51look at where your finger is pointing and say, yes, but you also need to buy a filter. I can send
04:57you a link to one if you want. It's really cool tech. But broadly speaking, my point is that even
05:02though price-wise the Edge is closer to an Ultra, feature-wise it's way closer to the Plus. Somewhat
05:08similar to what happens if you buy one of Samsung's Z Flip phones. You're paying more than what you
05:12would be for one of Samsung's more traditional devices for an aesthetic, a vibe, as opposed to
05:17actually getting better tech. And so the way that I see this S25 Edge is it's giving people another
05:22option for expression, if that's what they want, that doesn't involve a folding phone, which as
05:28we've seen is still a niche thing that not everyone wants. And to be honest, separate to whether or not
05:33I'm going to recommend this, we're getting there, I think this is smart. This idea of a thin premium
05:38flagship is something that I think we're about to see a lot of over the next couple of years.
05:42Apple's almost definitely about to do it later this year. Others will follow. And I do think
05:48that there are plenty of customers out there who are going to find this exciting. Because while to
05:53you and I, the idea of a thin phone might make us think, well, didn't we try that 10 years ago? And
05:58didn't it like not work at all? Well, I think it's pretty safe to say that the tech community is
06:04going to be largely against thinness at all costs because of the durability concerns and the fact
06:09that you get, well, less of the tech. There are still two things that I would consider in the S25
06:16Edge's favor. A, that materials are a lot better now than they used to be. Like this is going to be
06:21more delicate than a thicker phone, but it's going to be a lot less delicate than something like the
06:26iPhone 6 Plus from back in the day. And then B is just that if you're someone who cares a bit less
06:31about the tech in 2025, which feels more likely than ever before, because the changes in the tech
06:37are becoming harder to notice, then you can so see how the option to buy a phone that's just
06:42straight up 30% thinner is actually going to feel like the way more noticeable change than
06:47even bigger camera sensors, even faster charging, even brighter screens. You know, the usual stuff
06:52that we might pay more attention to. So that's why I think Samsung's making it. But it's a very
06:58different question as to whether or not you should buy it. I would say this. I think it's completely
07:04fine to go for a cool phone at the cost of some functionality. I mean, as far as I'm concerned,
07:09we make decisions like this all the time with the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the bags we
07:14carry. You don't always have to spec optimize if something makes you happy. Like this is the kind
07:18of phone that I'd be looking at. And my first thought would be, oh, my mom, she'd love this
07:23something that's luxury in all the ways that she needs it to be while cutting out all the stuff that
07:28she either isn't going to know or isn't going to care about to also be able to have this show
07:33stopping thinness. However, there are two things that would make me very nervous to recommend this.
07:39One is the great case dilemma. It's this really counterintuitive thing where if you're buying an
07:45ultra thin phone like this, then you'd probably want a proper hard backed thick case more than
07:51ever. But then if you put a proper hard backed thick case on, you're then defeating half the point
07:55of sacrificing all these features to have a thinner phone. Wouldn't it just be better at that point to
08:00go for a thicker phone that is stronger and more feature rich and then have a thinner case? And
08:06then the second even bigger issue really is the battery size. Because while I do think that chopping
08:11out pro features like telephoto cameras and S pens is actually completely justified because there are so
08:17many people who just will not even touch them, I wouldn't put battery in that same category. I think
08:23the vast, vast majority of people, no matter how techie they are, would benefit from a big battery.
08:29Like mom, if we're using that example, she has never once complained about camera quality with
08:33her last few phones, but she absolutely runs into battery issues. It's probably like the one single
08:38spec that unites us all. And so the idea of paying that ultra premium price for a phone with a battery
08:44that's not even just average, but actually small by today's standards is not something that I would be
08:50rushing out to do. They do say it's all day battery, but generally with phone companies, what that
08:55actually means is don't think about it too much. If this was a more energy dense silicon carbon battery,
09:00this would be a different conversation, but it isn't. Which means I think it's likely within a few
09:05years of using this, when the honeymoon phase of going for something suave has run dry and the battery
09:10has degraded, that you might regret prioritizing thinness. That is if you haven't already snapped the
09:15thing by then. And now while I show you the camera in action, one thing that I've been massively
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09:25You get them because every fricking service nowadays, from your supermarket to that
09:29wifi login at the weird backstreet cafe that you went to once, wants you to create an account,
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