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What's that? S25 Edge S1 didn't kill himself. Whoa, you are edgy. That's

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right, folks. We finally got our hands on the Galaxy S25 Edge, whose main claim

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to fame is that it is like the Galaxy S25 packed with all of that AI goodness,

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but edgier than ever before. Actually,

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there are Wow, it is skinny. But I have

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to say I'm a little less impressed than I would have been if I hadn't been

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playing around with my old phones the other day and picked up an iPhone 6S and

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gone, "Wow, what happened to modern phones? They got they've really gone to

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seed." Even picking up my Note 9 compared to a lot of modern phones makes

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me miss the days of slim, sleek devices

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that um performed pretty decent but kind of had mediocre battery. and Samsung is

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here to answer my call. On the surface,

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there is a lot to like here. Okay, the camera bump does make it actually a

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little bit thicker at its thickest point compared to my Note 9. But if you look

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at the actual thickness of the body, that is darn impressive. Like, we

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finally got a phone that is thin enough that they can actually justify not

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having a headphone jack on it. Congratulations, industry. And I got to

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admit, in the hand, I kind of like it.

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Like, do people kind of hate this thing? Because I feel like I'm going to end up

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contrarian here. You've got all the usual IO you'd expect. We've got our

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lock button and volume rocker over on the right. A whole lot of not much going

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on on the left, so you never risk accidentally mashing a button on the

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opposite side. Noise cancelling mic on the top. And USBC, SIM card, and of

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course, speaker on the bottom. that is

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really skinny. We've got a 200 megapixel wide angle with 2x optical zoom quality,

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which basically means it doesn't have an optical zoom. We've also got a 12 megap

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ultrawide and a built-in flash. And that pretty much does it for the outside.

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Wow, that is a really slim bezel on an absolutely gorgeous display. It's just

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6.7 in compared to 6.9 in on the full

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fat Galaxy S25 Ultra, but everything from the adaptive refresh rate up to 120

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Hz for nice smooth scrolling to the advertised 2600 nits peak brightness

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appears to be right in line with its bigger brother in terms of performance.

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In fact, we actually found that with auto brightness enabled, we were able to

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exceed 2600 nits, and we regularly saw

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well in excess of 1,000 nits when playing back HDR content. And in the

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brightness boost mode, even SDR was getting as high as around 700 800 nits,

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I think it was. Dude, it's so light and the bezel is so small and the image

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quality is so good. It feels like holding a little portal into whatever it

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is that's happening. Do people not like this thing? Okay, they're just they're

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not that impressed, dude. Kind of love it. I mean, there's still things that I

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would want to fix about it, you know? Love it if it had a headphone jack, but

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like this is awesome. Yep, that's an HDR

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display. All right, but what did it cost us? We'll talk about what cost us. Wait,

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Lionus, I'm going to let you finish, but Dbrand paid us to interrupt and let you

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know about their easy apply prism screen protectors and thin, transparent,

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durable ghost cases. But instead, I'm going to show off this sick card Dbrand

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sent us. each personalized with their name and loaded up with some cash to

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spend on their site. I'd definitely grab a prism and ghost case if I didn't

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already have one. So, uh, screw it. Maybe I'll grab another pair of some

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more glow circuit skins, too. Anyways, go to my boss's very short.com and pick

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up some for yourself, too. Okay, Lionus, back to you. Ah, yes. The first thing it

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cost us was battery life. Instead of the

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5,000 mAh battery on the S25 Ultra, we

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have a very similar SoC, but with only a

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3900 MIA battery. This resulted in both

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a proportional difference in recorded battery life during our video playback

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test, as well as slower charging speeds

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compared to the S25 Ultra. It should be

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noted that our tests were done on the S25 Ultra back when we got that phone

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and we don't have it anymore, but it should give you a rough idea of what to

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expect. Another thing it cost us was performance. While it has the same 3nm

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Snapdragon 8 Elite and 12 GB of memory as its bigger brother, and we can see

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that in any sort of shortterm benchmark runs. As soon as we threw 3D Mark

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Wildlife at it, which runs over and over and over again, you can see that the

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performance drops off substantially. And this is just down to not being able to

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fit as much cooling into a tiny little phone like this. But I'm not

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even mad about that. You know, you knew there were going to be trade-offs, right? Like, am I mad my wife doesn't

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run marathons and powerlift? No, she's good at lots of stuff. Like, everyone

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says her voice sounds nice. Maybe this has the same advantages. So, the machine

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itself opens up like that. Speakers, maybe they're awesome for their size.

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Let's see. Stereo speakers. Not

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bad. Not as good as some of the bigger phones on the market, but considering

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its size, honestly, I'm actually really impressed. That's very usable. What

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about the camera? Okay, cool. Do my classic photo. Look at that. Let's see

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how edgy you are. See, Belle, would it kill you to be more like Reese and just

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smile for the photo? You know, you never smile for the photo. You will smile.

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Well, yeah. I can't tell today, though. Kind of washed out. Honestly, this is

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not the best dynamic range I've ever seen. But I also do wonder if part of it

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is that it just decided in its auto exposure that it was really important to

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grab all the detail in this light. Um, I mean, we're capturing everything. To its

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credit, it's capturing a lot of the detail. This is just the kind of thing I

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would definitely want to play around with in an image editor a little bit.

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It's amazing what a difference like 30 g makes. Like that's about the difference

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between this and other flagships, right? Just it feels

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so slim. You know what? That's actually

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not bad. A lot of the time Android devices just struggle with smooth

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panning. Honestly, pretty okay. How

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about the selfie camera? It's a video. Well, uh, now we know what I I never do

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selfie videos for these. Maybe I should choose a color tone. Yeah, natural,

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please. I didn't shave. Whoops. Well, now we know that. Also, I never noticed

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my ear was this pointy. That's That's weird. Am I the only one that thinks

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that's kind of weird? Let me look at your ears. I hate that the first thing

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edit does is not markup. That's always what I want to do. I understand other

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people want to do different things, but I don't. I legitimately like miss One

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UI. Not because it looks or feels great out of the box, but they just mostly get

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out of your way and let you do your thing. Like I can be like, "Yeah, I want a huge grid for my home screen, because

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that's what I want." And it is none of your business if that's what I want. Why

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is everyone doing the Apple thing now? We had a perfectly good thing going on

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Android where you could pull down from anywhere on the top of the phone and

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just all your stuff would be there, all your notifications and all your

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settings. No, we have to do it the Apple way now because Apple doth saith so.

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Next, you're going to take away my buttons. I didn't actually think about

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this before. Typing on it. Honestly, not that

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comfortable. Like, it's really thin.

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It's uh like it's, you know, it's like farther away. You're kind of clawing a

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little bit more. It's not much, but it's so light. Um it's a little

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disconcerting, actually. It really is really sleek. I don't love the whole

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punch camera. I do find it quite distracting in full screen content. But

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hey, at least it's a lot smaller than like freaking dynamic island that Apple

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tries to sell as a feature. And there's a lot more to love here, too. It's got

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support for Bluetooth 5.4, Wi-Fi 7. I

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didn't even mention wireless charging yet. Yes, it does support it. No, it's

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not particularly fast, but hey, at least it's as fast as the S25 Ultra. It's just

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something that Samsung has been pretty conservative about. The only thing

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people seem to be pretty upset about is the battery life. And I can kind of see

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where they're coming from. On the one hand, um, you know, given the SoC and

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the performance that's on tap here, it kind of is what it is. But on the other

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hand, if Samsung knew that they weren't going to have enough cooling for a top

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tier chipset, maybe they would have been better off going with a slower chipset,

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but one that could ek a little bit more battery life out of this smaller

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battery. The other thing that might have done is lower the price. At over $1,000

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for either variant of this, it's very much priced like a flagship, even though

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for gaming, for instance, it might not hold up against other flagships. I'll

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let you guys debate whether those trade-offs are worth it. For my

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part, I'm considering trying it. I'm

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still looking for a daily driver after all this time. And I'm just not sure if

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especially coming from the Pixel 9a where functionally I don't even think

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about charging this phone if I'm going to be able to handle this. Subscribe to

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