Last week, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S25 Edge, already its fourth flagship phone halfway through this year. This latest addition was meant to be the most flashy and eye-catching of the S25 family, but it turns out people just aren’t that interested.
On paper, the Galaxy S25 Edge has the most in common with the Galaxy S25+. They have the same displays, processor, RAM, and storage configurations. However, the Edge is only 5.8mm thick, whereas the S25+ is 7.3mm. As a result, the Edge has fewer cameras, a much smaller battery, slower charge speeds, and it costs $100 more. The reception has been lukewarm at best.
As pointed out by Jaun Carlos Bagness on Bluesky, search interest for the Galaxy S25 Edge is extremely low. After an initial spike on announcement day, interest has plummeted, but at no point was it ever more than the three-month-old iPhone 16e. It doesn’t get any better the more you look into it, either.
It’s sad that the Galaxy S25 Edge is SO creatively bankrupt, it wouldn’t even be fun to get one just to trash it. Interest is SO low, if I wanted to buy a phone just to trash it, I would STILL have a better chance of getting some traffic by getting an iPhone 16e today.
— Juan Carlos Bagnell (@somegadgetguy.com) 2025-05-19T21:20:18.168Z
Here’s a Google Trends comparison for the Galaxy S25 Edge and the Pixel 10. Again, we can see the initial surge, but one week later, there’s now more interest in the unannounced Pixel 10 that’s probably still three months from launch.
The situation looks even worse when we compare the Gaalxy S25 Edge to a similarly niche phone, the folding Moto Razr 2025.
I can see the same thing playing out in the numbers for our own articles right here on How-To Geek. The announcement article for the new Moto Razr phones received 7x the views of our Galaxy S25 Edge announcement. It seems clear that the phone designed to grab headlines has not been doing much of it.
Why is interest and excitement for the Galaxy S25 Edge seemingly so low? The folks of various communities over at Reddit have shared many reasons. People think it’s a cash grab and an attempt to get a thin phone out ahead of Apple’s rumored iPhone Air variant. Many people are not willing to sacrifice poor battery life for a thinner phone. Others are annoyed that it costs nearly the same as the Galaxy S25 Ultra, but has far fewer features. And then some are simply not impressed by the thinness.
Despite all of this, there are rumors that Samsung is planning to replace the Galaxy S26+ with an Edge model next year. “Plus” models allegedly don’t sell very well, which may be part of the reason why the Edge exists in the first place. All we can do is wait and see, but in the meantime, it would seem Samsung’s attempt at launching a fancy new variant is being met with middling fanfare.
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