The Samsung S25 collection dropped in January, however there was one mannequin within the line-up which, although teased on the launch occasion, wasn’t really launched. On the time this was rumored to be the S25 ‘Slim’, however the cellphone has since been formally named the S25 Edge. Its standout function will likely be its notably slimmer profile, being lower than 7mm thick. The cellphone is anticipated to launch in April, however famend tipster Ice Universe has now leaked recent specs for the S25 Edge, together with potential digicam particulars.
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The place earlier rumors recommended the Edge may get a triple digicam array, the brand new leak claims there’ll now solely be two digicam modules: the first digicam is alleged to be primarily based across the identical 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor as used within the S25 Extremely, with the second module being a 12MP Ultrawide digicam, doubtless a carry-over from the S25 and S25+. That is per pre-production mock-ups of the S25 Edge displayed on the S25-series launch in January, and whereas it is disappointing that it seems to be as if there will not be a telephoto digicam, shrinking a cellphone’s thickness inevitably comes with compromises.
Periscope modules require a cellphone to be thick sufficient to permit the sensor and lens parts to be positioned throughout the width of the cellphone, slightly than entrance to again. The thinner the physique, the smaller the sensor and lenses have to be, and there’ll inevitably come some extent the place picture high quality will likely be adversely affected. It is not all unhealthy information although, as the massive megapixel depend of the first digicam means on-sensor zoom continues to be potential, which when mixed with AI enhancement may nonetheless present no less than 2-3x zoom with little if any loss in picture high quality.
One other potential compromise revealed by the Ice Universe leak is battery capability, which is claimed to solely be 3900mAh. Whereas this might make it the smallest battery within the S25 vary, and considerably down on the S25+ and S25 Extremely, it’d solely be 100mAh smaller than the vanilla S25’s battery.
But when a slim cellphone is prime of your precedence checklist, these compromises will likely be price making, and early indications recommend the S25 Edge might be even slimmer than we first thought. Preliminary rumors talked about 6.4mm, however this newest leak now claims a 5.84mm thickness, which if true would make the S25 extremely skinny. Size and width are claimed to be 158.2 x 75.5mm.
A separate rumor has recommended that the S25 Edge will likely be out there in three colorways: Titanium Icyblue, Titanium Silver, and Titanium Jetblack. A delicate trace there that the cellphone’s body is perhaps constituted of titanium? Two storage variations have been speculated: 256GB and 512GB, each with 12GB of RAM. The 256GB model might be priced between €1,200 and €1,300 in Europe, with the 512GB mannequin is recommended to retail between €1,300 and €1,400. We do not but have any indication of potential US and UK pricing, however there’s nonetheless time for these particulars to floor forward of the cellphone’s supposed April launch.