Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Review: Slim, Sleek, But Living On The Edge

When it comes to software, the Galaxy S25 Edge delivers the exact same experience as the rest of the S25 lineup. It runs Samsung’s One UI 7, which is based on Android 15 and comes with a host of improvements, like a vertically scrolling app tray (finally!) Bixby is all but gone, replaced by Google’s Circle to Search and Gemini, and supplemented by Galaxy AI’s vast array of features – some worthwhile, some questionable.

Galaxy S25 Edge Software, User Experience, And AI

Beyond’s Gemini’s ability to change device settings and interact directly with apps from Google, Samsung, and select third parties – plus Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing – the S25 Edge boasts the usual generative AI tricks, like summarization, formatting, live translation, interpreting, and transcription. None of this is unique to Samsung, though, since it’s available on the vast majority of today’s Android phones.
Samsung’s AI-based image-editing tools are some of the best currently available. Generative Edit lets you erase, move, and scale objects or people, Portrait Studio creates stylized versions of portraits, and Sketch to Image generates pictures based on what you draw. Again, most other handsets have similar AI features, but Samsung’s stand out by being particularly polished and running completely on-device.

Now Brief (and the related Now Bar) is supposed to leverage Samsung’s “Personal Data Engine” – your own secure, on-device LLM (large language model), which analyses your data and learns how you use your device – to offer personalized suggestions and surface helpful information. In practice, however, it doesn’t show much besides the current weather, upcoming calendar events, and one news article.

Like with the rest of the S25 family, the S25 Edge will benefit from seven years of OS upgrades and security updates.

Galaxy S25 Edge Pricing And Availability

You can buy the Galaxy S25 Edge for $1,099 (256GB) or $1,219 (512GB) in Titanium Icyblue, Silver, and Jetblack, from Samsung, Best Buy and Amazon. It’s also available through T-Mobile (from $45.84/month for 24 months, $12.50/month with promotion), Verizon (from $30.55/month for 36 months, $2.77/month with trade-in), and AT&T (from $30.56/month for 36 months, free with trade-in, and eligible for Next Up Anytime).

Galaxy S25 Edge Review Summary

While we can’t ignore the compromises Samsung has made to build a 5.8mm thin phone – especially in terms of imaging and battery life – the Galaxy S25 Edge looks great, feels amazing in hand, and is a delight to use day in, day out. It delivers a beautiful display, superb main camera, excellent speakers, solid performance, and feature-rich software. In other words, limitations aside, the Galaxy S25 Edge remains a highly capable, lust-worthy flagship.

Do we recommend the S25 Edge? Maybe. If you don’t care much about camera zoom, aren’t a heavy user, don’t mind charging every night, and want something sleek and different, this phone will serve you well. We’re curious to see how this slim form factor evolves, though. AI zooming algorithms and silicon-carbon batteries could alleviate the S25 Edge’s shortcomings someday. But is Samsung willing to take risks and adopt this tech? Only time will tell.