Overview

• The new Galaxy S25 Edge is available. It's slim but full of compromises.
• While thin borders may help improve ergonomics, their design is still square.
• Samsung and Apple should focus on improving speakers, battery life and camera quality rather than blindly pursuing slimness.

With the release of Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge and the coming of the iPhone 17 Air, slim phones have become a trend. Today, the appearance design of smartphones is quite mature, but many phones are too large and simply pursue slimness is completely deviating from the key points. I don't want a slim phone, I want a better phone that's easier to hold.

I understand why companies like Samsung, Google, etc. want folding phones to stay slim, but I don't understand why regular models pursue this way. Before the Galaxy S25 Edge was released, many fans were worried that slim design would bring potential compromises, and our concerns were right. If you buy it, you'll compromise on battery life and camera performance just to get a phone that's still huge and relatively difficult to hold. But at least it's very slim. I don't want a slim phone, and you probably don't want it either. Here are the improvements I would like to see.

Better ergonomics than ultra-thin designs

My biggest complaints about phones over the past few years are their size, weight and bulky design, not their thickness. Of course, thickness also plays a certain role, but this is only a small aspect. Phones like the new Galaxy S25 Ultra or iPhone 16 Pro Max have a huge screen, bigger and heavier, and come with a powerful processor and numerous cameras. That's what we bought, so the manufacturers continue to launch these models.

But things have gone out of control. The Galaxy S23 Ultra, S24 Ultra and the latest S25 Ultra all prove this. They are huge, difficult to hold and are almost impossible to operate with one hand. Actually, after trying it, I returned my Galaxy S25 Ultra and instead bought the smaller S25, which I am now very satisfied.

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Post 1 Apple is not much better. The latest iPhone 16 Pro Max is equally large and heavy, and it feels very uncomfortable to hold for more than three minutes – but at least the corners are a little rounder. I hope the Galaxy S25 Ultra's rounded corner design will improve ergonomicly, but that's not the case. It's still a huge phone that I don't want to hold or keep in my pocket. Samsung made little changes and then introduced the Galaxy S25 Edge, which is still huge but super slim. It does not solve ergonomic problems at all.

In fact, it's harder to hold due to its slimness and smoothness, still has square edges that sting the palms and are as big as the Galaxy S25 Plus. By the way, Motorola released a thinner phone than the S25 Edge nine years ago, so there is nothing special about it.

Hey, Samsung and Apple, I don't want another huge Ultra Max Pro phone, nor the Slim/Edge/Air model. Please make your phone better and easier to hold.

I want better speakers and bigger batteries, please

Making the current generation of phones thinner will sacrifice camera, battery life, and possibly other features like speakers, such as internal cooling. We all expected this and it turned out we were right.

The slim new Galaxy S25 Edge has a huge 6.7-inch screen, but has a battery capacity of just 3,900mAh and comes with a dual camera without advanced zoom. By comparison, the Galaxy S25 has a 6.2-inch screen and a larger 4,000mAh battery.

Alternatively, the Galaxy S25 has the same 6.7-inch screen and a larger 4,900 mAh battery. They are basically the same phone, but the Edge has a shorter battery life and a slightly different and simplified camera experience. Who wants a phone like this? I don't want it.

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Chef's Kiss

Post 9 Instead, I wanted a Samsung phone with a screen size of about 6.6 inches, rounded sides and corners, with a great camera, improved speakers and a larger battery. Other manufacturers are busy integrating new silicon carbide battery technology into their phones. Silicon carbide can provide greater battery capacity in the same space, making the phone longer battery life. This is the next Samsung phone I want, not the thinner bezel.

Remember those old HTC One phones with huge front speakers? They sound very good. It was a wonderful old time. While our current large bezel screens no longer allow this, I hope manufacturers will focus on improving speaker quality. I hate having to cover the bottom with my hands when listening to YouTube videos. Please fix this instead of making a slightly slim phone.

Don't get me wrong, the 2025 phone is really great. We have a very beautiful screen, high-performance camera, powerful processing power, interesting AI features and all-weather battery life. But that doesn't mean things can't continue to improve. I hope Samsung and Apple will focus on speakers, battery life and meaningful features, not AI and slim.

I believe there are some people who are excited about the new Galaxy S25 Edge. I'm just one of them.

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