The new Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge combines some of Samsung’s best technology from its leading flagship phones and adds some new wrinkles to deliver an exciting new Android smartphone already widely known as one of the slimmest handsets on the market.
It doesn’t have a new chip, but the one it has, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite to Galaxy is the best you might get for Android. It lacks a telecommunications lens, but includes equivalent with Samsung’s best 200MP camera. It’s a mostly uncompromising smartphone that promises virtually any feature you can find on the more expensive Galaxy S25 Ultra (Save S Pen).
But what you pay $ 1,099.99 / £ 1,099 / AU $ 1,849 for is an incredibly swelter titanium frame, one that feels thin and at only 163 grams of unusual light. Although I know the specifications – 5.8 mm – I struggled to find a way to put this measurement in perspective.
That’s why I brought a small collection of quarters to my first practical experience with Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. I think a stack of quarters next to Samsung’s latest Galaxy S phone helps contextualize these thickness requirements.
Is it as thin as a stack of six quarters? How about five? And how is it compared to other phones, even classic thin handsets in a swunen time?
That’s it by thinness. It seems to go in and out of fashion. Sometimes we prefer, for example, the battery it offers, and other times we get tired of carrying all the extra weight and dream of paper -thin phones.
However, thin phones have their risks.
The time arch bows
When we think back on the icon with the handset thinness, iPhone 6 Plus, many of us also remember less than with love Bendgate. That’s when Apple built a 6.9mm thick iPhone that couldn’t get up to an ass, or at least resist being squeezed between an ass and a hard surface such as a chair or concrete growth.
A year later, Apple followed up with 7.1 mm iPhone 6S and after it contained iPhone 7, which contained a higher quality aluminum. It ended Bendgate and for a while our desire for ultra -thin phones.
But now they are back. Apple is reportedly preparing for an iPhone 17 air that can surpass even the S25 edge in thinness. However, Samsung has the edge working on thin phones even before the S25 Edge release.
Business athletes told me that Samsung’s work with his folding line has well prepared it to build this slim handset. Unfolded is Galaxy Z Fold 6 Only 5.6 mm thick. Yes, even thinner than the S25 edge.
If you are wondering why the S25 edge is a few millimeters thicker than the Z fold, remember that Samsung can divide the unit’s 4,200 mAh battery between the two halves. Samsung had to fit the S25 Edge’s 3,900 mAh battery into a single 5.8 mm panel.
Could this little slice of technological sky lead to another “Bendgate”? I doubt it.
The flat titanium band that surrounds the S25 Edge’s body is far more stiff and less flexible than the all curved aluminum body of the iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung also uses the brand new Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 on the display to further strengthen the phone.
It was with all this in mind that I pulled out my stacks of quarters and came to work on measuring real thinness based on a coin scale.
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- Classic iPhone 6s (7.1mm): 4 quarters
- iPhone 16 Pro Max (8.25 mm): 5 quarters
- Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra (8.2 mm) 5 quarters
- Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge (5.8 mm): 3 quarters
Although this is not an accurate science, the modern American neighborhood has reliably been 1.75 mm thickness since at least the 1930s. Still, my results make sense when you compare the actual thickness of each phone in millimeters. The S25 edge is the clear leader.
My little experiment proves that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge in the most physical sense is one of the thinnest phones on the market. Sure it may not look like much of a test. But hey, what else would I do with this stack of quarters?
For the time being, I suggest you go to a Samsung dealer to at least touch the super-thin Galaxy S25 edge for yourself. Quarters are optional.
