Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. This is the most mysterious member of the S25 family, one that comes with extreme thinness as the main ally. After leaking some of his Key specificationseverything indicates that the final thickness of the device will be less than six millimeters.
A rather spectacular design in response to a phone that has not yet left (like that is the smartphones market) but that already seems a reality: the iPhone 17 Air. The obsession with extreme thinness will be a trend in 2025. The questions are why and for whom.
Samsung has advanced. He iPhone 17 Air It has been rumored for months and with quite consistent information. Except for surprise, Apple will present a new model specifically focused on the thin world. The key is that this will not happen foreseeably until September 2025, and Samsung wanted to advance.
In January, together with Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S25+ and Samsung Galaxy S25, advanced the design of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. A thinner phone than the rest of his brothers. But little else.
The commitment. Manufacture a extremely thin telephone It has consequences, and they are never positive if we talk about hardware. The leaks tell us about less than 4,000mAh for the S25 Edge, a figure we had without seeing for years. For more miracles that are achieved with optimization, the battery capacity looks very diminished.
And this is the main debate and point with thinness: if we prefer a thin mobile with less battery or thicker with plenty of battery. According to the feedback of the xatakers and the mobile requests they usually make, the battery is always a priority. Delgadeness, no.
In fact, I remember that after the great reduction of thickness that brought the goodbye of the rounded design (iPhone 11), the rest of the models were growing in thickness and with it, in Mah. He iPhone 14 It was thicker than the iPhone 13and the iPhone 13 was thicker than the iPhone 12. Each and every one of these generations won MAH, and complaints with thinness were … zero.
What will happen to the iPhone Air. The Galaxy S25 Edge has had to officially give up a camera, and unofficially (according to leaks) to the battery of his older brothers. The iPhone 17 Air, except for surprise with the implementation of a large-capacity carbon-silege battery, will be a phone with less autonomy than its brothers from the iPhone 17 family.
Nor are we clear if it will mount the same camera sensor and Pro lenses of the PRO Models and, if so, Apple will not be easy to continue improving the size of this hardware if the body must be smaller and smaller.
In other words, it is currently not possible that two phones, one being thicker than the other, have the same potential at the hardware level. There are battles to be resolved, such as The increasingly durable batteries either The increasingly bright screens But that of increasingly thin mobiles is one, perhaps, inception.
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