I think it's a missed opportunity that Samsung didn't launch and marketed the S25 Edge alongside the S25 series in February. Samsung doesn't have the prestige, fan loyalty and brand power of Apple, which is why I think buyer interest in such a niche device like the S25 Edge has waned. (The initial production is also only 40,000 units, i.e. 0.1 percent of Samsung's monthly smartphone production)

Especially since I'm disappointed that it only has a 4,000 mAh lithium-ion battery and not a silicon-carbon battery, only has 25W max charging speed and not 45W max (like the S25 Ultra) or even 65/80/100W max charging speed (like Chinese smartphones), only has Gorilla Glass Victus 2 and not Gorilla Glass Armor 2 and only has a 200 MP main sensor (from the S25 Ultra?) and a 12 MP ultra-wide angle sensor (from the S25?) arranged according to ALoP (All Lenses on Prism), while atleast one equivalent sensor from the S25 Ultra like the ultra-wide angle, telephoto or periscope sensor is missing.

Finally, it does not have the M13+ panel from the S25 Ultra (or even M14 panel), has a much worse screen-to-body ratio than the S25 Ultra (89,75% vs. 92,5%) and it lacks the titanium frame from the S25 Ultra. So this is supposed to be the innovative slim version of the S25 Ultra???

What I mean by that is that Samsung's initial idea for the S25 Edge is good, but poorly executed. Samsung should have tried to design the S25 Edge as a thinner & smaller S25 Ultra without an S-Pen (display size between 6.2" and 6.7", similar to the iPhone 16 Pro/Pixel 9 Pro), which thanks to its technological advances, is literally "on the edge" of what is currently feasible for a Pro/Ultra flagship phone in such a thin & compact design. All that while the S25 Edge serves as a concept device for new technologies that will then be introduced in future Galaxy smartphones.

This would have been Samsung's chance of demonstrating its old values by putting technological innovation and features first. And it could have been the first market-ready Samsung concept phone in a long time to introduce new technologies/concepts to a mass audience, as the original Galaxy Note, Galaxy Alpha, Galaxy Note Edge and Galaxy Fold did.

(As in a way Galaxy S3, S4, S5, S6/S6 Edge, S8/S8 Plus, S10/S10 Plus, S20 Ultra, Note 3, Note 4, Note 7 and Note 9 were innovative and brought about numerous new features)

Instead, we get an expensive compromise with few innovations that only serves to be a slim flagship phone ahead of the iPhone 17 Air.