Samsung kicks off a wave of thin phones

Galaxy S25 Edge is ultrathin, ultralight

- MARK GURMAN YOOLIM LEE

Samsung Electronics Co on Monday rolled out a slimmed-down Galaxy S25 Edge smartphone, kicking off a wave of drastically thinner handsets expected to launch this year.

The company's latest device, which goes on sale in the US on May 30 for $1,099 (about 36,500 baht), is 5.8 millimetres thick and weighs 163 grams, making it about 30% thinner and 25% lighter than the S25 Ultra, the company's highest-end smartphone. The new handset is about as light as the base-model S25, but includes more premium features like a titanium frame, 200-megapixel rear camera and high-end artificial intelligence capabilities.

"The amount of weight we've pulled out of this device and the slimness of this device is just dramatic," Blake Gaiser, the company's head of smartphone product management for the Americas, said in an interview. "We've been hearing from our customers over the last few years that weight and hand feel is something very important to them. As phones are getting bigger and heavier, they've really been looking for something that would just disappear in their pocket."