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TL;DR
- Samsung’s skinny Galaxy S25 Edge survives its drop check, although not with out some harm.
- Even with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, the entrance display screen is fast to crack, although stays operational.
- The rear Victus 2 glass places up extra of a combat, however even it’s rapidly undone.
Just about all the pieces a few smartphone is a compromise. That will sound like a little bit of a adverse place to be coming from, but it surely actually does make all of the sense on the earth whenever you cease to consider it: Larger screens are simpler to see, however extra awkward to hold round. Or large batteries supply the endurance we wish, however rapidly get heavy. Each time a producer is balancing issues like these, it’s making compromises — and that’s wonderful. Greater than wonderful, it’s vital. At present, although, we’re taking an in depth have a look at the fallout from what’s arguably one of many greatest compromises that’s been on the forefront of a current handset’s design.
This yr, Samsung expanded its flagship Android lineup with the introduction of a brand new, thinner various: the Galaxy S25 Edge. And nearly instantly, the telephone discovered itself surrounded by controversy.
With the S25 Edge, Samsung’s compromises exist entrance and middle: You get a really skinny telephone, granted, on the expense of battery life — to say nothing of the very actual further price related to its premium price ticket. At the very least, that’s the apparent trade-off whenever you have a look at the {hardware}’s specs, however skinny telephones simply don’t spell much less room for a battery. Being skinny additionally makes it much more tough for a telephone to be constructed powerful.
Bodily resiliency comes simply to massive, cumbersome telephones, however extra delicate {hardware} has its work minimize out for it. We simply noticed Zack Nelson put the S25 Edge via some harm exams, and Samsung’s telephone really resisted bending admirably effectively. However how does it deal with a number of drops?
Over on YouTube, PBKreviews places the S25 Edge to simply such a trial, and the outcomes aren’t nice. Dropped face-down from about as excessive as you’d be holding the telephone on a name, we instantly get a cracked display screen, regardless of the Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 safety.
After a pair extra drops, this time deliberately making an attempt to get the telephone to land on its again, the Victus 2 rear glass additionally started displaying indicators of injury. Whereas a barely decrease drop on the telephone’s edge continues to ding up the body, the glass harm doesn’t actually get a complete lot worse, and the display screen stays operational all through. Finally, it might have gone a complete lot worse, however contemplating Samsung’s construct high quality on the mainstream S25 line, this isn’t notably spectacular, both.
Do exams like these make you rethink selecting up a Galaxy S25 Edge? Or is that skinny construct simply too modern to go up? Make your case for this controversial telephone down within the feedback.
