Hey! Would you like a cellphone that prices an excessive amount of, has a sub-par digital camera, a tiny battery, and is not as sturdy? If that’s the case, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is your dream cellphone.

This cellphone is a certifiable 100% bona fide flop. Samsung made too many compromises as a result of somebody on the firm determined that individuals wished a skinny cellphone and had been prepared to spend a complete lot of cash on it. It virtually appears like a script for a comedy.

Sadly, it isn’t. It is one other instance of Samsung testing the waters to see what we could be satisfied we would like, besides this time it failed. However that is okay; Samsung can afford to fail.

The phone apparently isn’t selling very well, however that is not shocking. Samsung going forward with the thought, despite the fact that it is kinda dumb, is not shocking both. The corporate does this form of factor and has been profitable prior to now. You solely actually know if an concept is worth it after you attempt it.

Samsung’s willingness to do dumb shit introduced us the Galaxy Note. In the event you like utilizing your Apple Pencil, you have to thank Samsung for reminding us that there are occasions when your finger simply will not reduce it. When the primary Galaxy Observe launched, it was a flop too. T-Cellular really canceled its model after it was introduced and despatched to reviewers — I do know as a result of they despatched me one. Making a giant ass cellphone with a stylus sounded silly on the time.

No one is saying that in the present day; the Galaxy Observe has advanced into the best phone Samsung has ever made. Struggle me. The corporate goes to do the identical with book-style foldables and has already generated virtually all of the curiosity there may be for them, just by saying “YOLO” and doing it. I like it when Samsung does that, and I hope they by no means cease. Giving us 10 unhealthy concepts is price it when that good one hits.

That is why the corporate determined telephones wanted to be thinner. Someplace down the road, they’ll have perfected a option to do it with out all the required drawbacks of in the present day’s tech. My opinion? Forcing a design to be this skinny means battery tech needs to be improved. A flop of a skinny cellphone is the first step to having a battery that is smaller, safer, and lasts longer.

Having stated all of this — and I actually do imply all of it, I perceive why this cellphone was constructed — let’s check out what we really received: a cellphone no one was asking for and nobody should buy.

It is skinny. I do not suppose it is the thinnest cellphone ever, however you may’t deny that it is thinner than the rest you should purchase in the present day (excluding foldables). Nonetheless, it is skinny on the expense of different options that make a cellphone good.

I predicted this last January after I stated making a cellphone very skinny utilizing in the present day’s tech would imply you have to sacrifice battery life. I used to be barely off; you additionally sacrificed digital camera high quality, efficiency, and durability. However largely the battery.

Proper now, the batteries are model new, and also you hear folks say they virtually final all day or will final all day for those who handle it accurately. In , will probably be “I can get by topping it off at time for supper,” and in , folks might want to cost it much more usually. That is how batteries work; the extra you utilize them, the much less you can use them.

As somebody who used a Pixel 4 for a yr, let me inform you that it solely will get worse from right here. A smartphone is ineffective with none fuel within the tank.

Surprisingly, that is not sufficient to kill a cellphone at launch. Individuals will need it as a result of it is skinny and may get by utilizing a cable and a charger. What killed the S25 Edge was its $1,000+ asking value.

Samsung can fake that they didn’t compromise to make a cellphone this skinny, however even the folks saying that know the reality. It is a prototype of the subsequent massive concept, and the one means for it to get higher is to construct it and work by means of all of it. If it sticks round, we would love what it turns into.