After using the Galaxy S25 Edge, I have one word on the brain: ‘Frankenstein’

Since 2020, Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup has stayed incredibly consistent. Each year, we see a Galaxy S, Galaxy S Plus, and Galaxy S Ultra. This year, in the Galaxy S25 series that launched in February, we saw the same but also a tease for a new, ultra-thin model to come later on. Eventually, we found out the phone’s name: the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. Today, I got to use that phone for the first time.

If you only care about the phone’s star feature, which is how svelte it is, let me assure you: this phone is hella thin. However, Samsung needed to make a ton of sacrifices to get it to be that way, and some of those sacrifices might be too difficult to stomach. There’s also the question of this phone’s identity amongst its Galaxy S25 siblings, which I can only summarize using the word “Frankenstein.”