Samsung has revealed everything about the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge at a virtual Galaxy Unpacked event on May 12.
The Android smartphone has been teased since January, but pre-orders are now officially live for the upcoming handset.
The biggest talking point is its ultra-thin frame, coming very close to being the thinnest smartphone yet.
However, there are plenty more features to dig into besides, as well as a confirmed release date and starting price.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge release date and price confirmed
Pre-orders are live for the S25 Edge ahead of its wider sale start on May 30. Prices start from £1,099.99 in the UK, a £100 increase on the S25+ and the same price as the S25 Ultra.
Samsung confirmed in the launch event that this pricing includes any potential uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which could mean the original price may have been less.
Samsung is also offering a launch deal in the UK, where you can get the upgraded storage space of 512GB for the same price as 256GB.
Putting it into perspective with other comparative smartphones, Google’s Pixel 9 Pro came out at £999 and the Pro XL at £1,099, while the sleek 9A starts from £499. Over at Apple, the iPhone 15 starts from £799 and the Pro version from £999.
What features to expect from the ultra-thin flagship smartphone
So, what are you getting for that price tag? The S25 Edge is an incredibly lightweight handset, measuring 5.8 mm and weighing just 163 grams. That includes a 6.7-inch display, so you're getting more screen than the most recent iPhone.
However, that push for as thin a frame as possible may have caused some of its power to diminish. The Edge has a 3,900-mAh battery capacity, 100 mAh less than what's in the smaller Galaxy S25 and quite a bit less than you’d expect to see in modern phones.
Samsung maintains it will offer all-day power, with a 3-nanometer Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset to maximise the processing as much as possible within the titanium frame.
At the launch event, Samsung noted that its research with customers revealed people wanted a lighter handset with more features, so that’s what Edge is trying to achieve.
It’s certainly feature-heavy, with all the latest gadgets and gizmos you get in the premium S25 Ultra. In another push to slim down, the Edge has a dual-camera system, rather than the triple-lens most smartphones have nowadays.
That includes a 200-megapixel primary camera and a 12-megapixel ultrawide, with a 12-megapixel selfie camera on the front.
That means there's no telephoto zoom camera, but Samsung has attempted to make up for that with ‘optical-like’ image quality at 2x zoom, going up to 10x with AI-enhanced zoom. 4K 120 frames-per-second video recording has been pulled straight from the Ultra, something that’s missing from the cheaper Samsung phones.
With a promise of seven years’ worth of software updates, the Edge is also packed with the typical suite of Galaxy AI features as standard, including Audio Eraser, Generative Edit, and Now Brief.
Will the slimmed-down handset impact the internal power too harshly? The pared-down battery life is an early indicator that it might, but only time will tell.
