WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:08.240 What's that? S25 Edge S1 didn't kill himself. Whoa, you are edgy. That's 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:13.360 right, folks. We finally got our hands on the Galaxy S25 Edge, whose main claim 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:19.840 to fame is that it is like the Galaxy S25 packed with all of that AI goodness, 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:23.920 but edgier than ever before. Actually, 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:26.800 there are Wow, it is skinny. But I have 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:29.840 to say I'm a little less impressed than I would have been if I hadn't been 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:34.160 playing around with my old phones the other day and picked up an iPhone 6S and 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:39.920 gone, "Wow, what happened to modern phones? They got they've really gone to 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:45.920 seed." Even picking up my Note 9 compared to a lot of modern phones makes 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:48.800 me miss the days of slim, sleek devices 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:54.800 that um performed pretty decent but kind of had mediocre battery. and Samsung is 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:57.600 here to answer my call. On the surface, 00:00:54.800 --> 00:01:02.640 there is a lot to like here. Okay, the camera bump does make it actually a 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:07.520 little bit thicker at its thickest point compared to my Note 9. But if you look 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:11.680 at the actual thickness of the body, that is darn impressive. Like, we 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:15.520 finally got a phone that is thin enough that they can actually justify not 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:21.600 having a headphone jack on it. Congratulations, industry. And I got to 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.759 admit, in the hand, I kind of like it. 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:27.840 Like, do people kind of hate this thing? Because I feel like I'm going to end up 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:31.680 contrarian here. You've got all the usual IO you'd expect. We've got our 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:35.759 lock button and volume rocker over on the right. A whole lot of not much going 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:39.280 on on the left, so you never risk accidentally mashing a button on the 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:47.119 opposite side. Noise cancelling mic on the top. And USBC, SIM card, and of 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:49.520 course, speaker on the bottom. that is 00:01:47.119 --> 00:01:53.920 really skinny. We've got a 200 megapixel wide angle with 2x optical zoom quality, 00:01:52.399 --> 00:01:58.560 which basically means it doesn't have an optical zoom. We've also got a 12 megap 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:02.880 ultrawide and a built-in flash. And that pretty much does it for the outside. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:09.440 Wow, that is a really slim bezel on an absolutely gorgeous display. It's just 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:12.400 6.7 in compared to 6.9 in on the full 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:17.920 fat Galaxy S25 Ultra, but everything from the adaptive refresh rate up to 120 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:22.959 Hz for nice smooth scrolling to the advertised 2600 nits peak brightness 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:26.959 appears to be right in line with its bigger brother in terms of performance. 00:02:25.040 --> 00:02:32.319 In fact, we actually found that with auto brightness enabled, we were able to 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:34.400 exceed 2600 nits, and we regularly saw 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:39.200 well in excess of 1,000 nits when playing back HDR content. And in the 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:43.760 brightness boost mode, even SDR was getting as high as around 700 800 nits, 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:47.840 I think it was. Dude, it's so light and the bezel is so small and the image 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:52.160 quality is so good. It feels like holding a little portal into whatever it 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:55.680 is that's happening. Do people not like this thing? Okay, they're just they're 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:58.959 not that impressed, dude. Kind of love it. I mean, there's still things that I 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:03.920 would want to fix about it, you know? Love it if it had a headphone jack, but 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:06.080 like this is awesome. Yep, that's an HDR 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:10.560 display. All right, but what did it cost us? We'll talk about what cost us. Wait, 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:14.800 Lionus, I'm going to let you finish, but Dbrand paid us to interrupt and let you 00:03:12.640 --> 00:03:19.760 know about their easy apply prism screen protectors and thin, transparent, 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:23.280 durable ghost cases. But instead, I'm going to show off this sick card Dbrand 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:26.640 sent us. each personalized with their name and loaded up with some cash to 00:03:24.959 --> 00:03:31.200 spend on their site. I'd definitely grab a prism and ghost case if I didn't 00:03:28.959 --> 00:03:35.280 already have one. So, uh, screw it. Maybe I'll grab another pair of some 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:39.760 more glow circuit skins, too. Anyways, go to my boss's very short.com and pick 00:03:37.440 --> 00:03:45.440 up some for yourself, too. Okay, Lionus, back to you. Ah, yes. The first thing it 00:03:42.239 --> 00:03:48.959 cost us was battery life. Instead of the 00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:53.000 5,000 mAh battery on the S25 Ultra, we 00:03:48.959 --> 00:03:56.480 have a very similar SoC, but with only a 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:58.480 3900 MIA battery. This resulted in both 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:03.840 a proportional difference in recorded battery life during our video playback 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:06.879 test, as well as slower charging speeds 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.480 compared to the S25 Ultra. It should be 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:12.799 noted that our tests were done on the S25 Ultra back when we got that phone 00:04:10.959 --> 00:04:16.720 and we don't have it anymore, but it should give you a rough idea of what to 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:22.639 expect. Another thing it cost us was performance. While it has the same 3nm 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:27.840 Snapdragon 8 Elite and 12 GB of memory as its bigger brother, and we can see 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:32.880 that in any sort of shortterm benchmark runs. As soon as we threw 3D Mark 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:36.800 Wildlife at it, which runs over and over and over again, you can see that the 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:41.320 performance drops off substantially. And this is just down to not being able to 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:46.000 fit as much cooling into a tiny little phone like this. But I'm not 00:04:44.320 --> 00:04:51.840 even mad about that. You know, you knew there were going to be trade-offs, right? Like, am I mad my wife doesn't 00:04:48.960 --> 00:04:55.440 run marathons and powerlift? No, she's good at lots of stuff. Like, everyone 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:59.759 says her voice sounds nice. Maybe this has the same advantages. So, the machine 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:05.540 itself opens up like that. Speakers, maybe they're awesome for their size. 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:08.739 Let's see. Stereo speakers. Not 00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:16.240 bad. Not as good as some of the bigger phones on the market, but considering 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:21.039 its size, honestly, I'm actually really impressed. That's very usable. What 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:26.720 about the camera? Okay, cool. Do my classic photo. Look at that. Let's see 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:30.720 how edgy you are. See, Belle, would it kill you to be more like Reese and just 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:34.320 smile for the photo? You know, you never smile for the photo. You will smile. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:38.560 Well, yeah. I can't tell today, though. Kind of washed out. Honestly, this is 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:42.960 not the best dynamic range I've ever seen. But I also do wonder if part of it 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:47.600 is that it just decided in its auto exposure that it was really important to 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:51.360 grab all the detail in this light. Um, I mean, we're capturing everything. To its 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:54.240 credit, it's capturing a lot of the detail. This is just the kind of thing I 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:58.240 would definitely want to play around with in an image editor a little bit. 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:01.720 It's amazing what a difference like 30 g makes. Like that's about the difference 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:08.960 between this and other flagships, right? Just it feels 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:11.759 so slim. You know what? That's actually 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:17.199 not bad. A lot of the time Android devices just struggle with smooth 00:06:14.039 --> 00:06:18.880 panning. Honestly, pretty okay. How 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:24.080 about the selfie camera? It's a video. Well, uh, now we know what I I never do 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:28.160 selfie videos for these. Maybe I should choose a color tone. Yeah, natural, 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:31.919 please. I didn't shave. Whoops. Well, now we know that. Also, I never noticed 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:34.800 my ear was this pointy. That's That's weird. Am I the only one that thinks 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:39.280 that's kind of weird? Let me look at your ears. I hate that the first thing 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:42.080 edit does is not markup. That's always what I want to do. I understand other 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:47.039 people want to do different things, but I don't. I legitimately like miss One 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:50.400 UI. Not because it looks or feels great out of the box, but they just mostly get 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:57.120 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 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:01.599 that's what I want." And it is none of your business if that's what I want. Why 00:06:58.960 --> 00:07:05.680 is everyone doing the Apple thing now? We had a perfectly good thing going on 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:09.360 Android where you could pull down from anywhere on the top of the phone and 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:13.440 just all your stuff would be there, all your notifications and all your 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:17.759 settings. No, we have to do it the Apple way now because Apple doth saith so. 00:07:16.479 --> 00:07:22.199 Next, you're going to take away my buttons. I didn't actually think about 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:27.440 this before. Typing on it. Honestly, not that 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:29.599 comfortable. Like, it's really thin. 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:36.080 It's uh like it's, you know, it's like farther away. You're kind of clawing a 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:41.759 little bit more. It's not much, but it's so light. Um it's a little 00:07:39.039 --> 00:07:45.680 disconcerting, actually. It really is really sleek. I don't love the whole 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:49.360 punch camera. I do find it quite distracting in full screen content. But 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:53.280 hey, at least it's a lot smaller than like freaking dynamic island that Apple 00:07:51.520 --> 00:07:57.919 tries to sell as a feature. And there's a lot more to love here, too. It's got 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:59.280 support for Bluetooth 5.4, Wi-Fi 7. I 00:07:57.919 --> 00:08:03.520 didn't even mention wireless charging yet. Yes, it does support it. No, it's 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:07.440 not particularly fast, but hey, at least it's as fast as the S25 Ultra. It's just 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:11.680 something that Samsung has been pretty conservative about. The only thing 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:15.680 people seem to be pretty upset about is the battery life. And I can kind of see 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:20.479 where they're coming from. On the one hand, um, you know, given the SoC and 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:24.879 the performance that's on tap here, it kind of is what it is. But on the other 00:08:22.400 --> 00:08:28.400 hand, if Samsung knew that they weren't going to have enough cooling for a top 00:08:26.479 --> 00:08:33.760 tier chipset, maybe they would have been better off going with a slower chipset, 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:36.959 but one that could ek a little bit more battery life out of this smaller 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:43.440 battery. The other thing that might have done is lower the price. At over $1,000 00:08:40.959 --> 00:08:48.240 for either variant of this, it's very much priced like a flagship, even though 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:52.240 for gaming, for instance, it might not hold up against other flagships. I'll 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:57.839 let you guys debate whether those trade-offs are worth it. For my 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:59.440 part, I'm considering trying it. I'm 00:08:57.839 --> 00:09:03.760 still looking for a daily driver after all this time. And I'm just not sure if 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:08.320 especially coming from the Pixel 9a where functionally I don't even think 00:09:06.160 --> 00:09:12.959 about charging this phone if I'm going to be able to handle this. Subscribe to 00:09:10.160 --> 00:09:12.959 ShortCircuit.