I love the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s such a slim phone and feels great in your hand. Even though its battery is small, it still made it through the whole workday. Samsung also made the Galaxy Z Fold 7, which is incredibly slim for a folding phone and looks great even when folded. And with the slimmer body, the phone feels fantastic.
According to previous leaks, Apple is also working on an iPhone 17 Slim model, which is positioned to replace the iPhone 17 Plus. It will have a large screen but a thin body to make the phone lighter.
Some fault slimmer phones because they have smaller batteries, seem more fragile, and seem to be under-spec compared to flagships. It depends on what you’re looking for in a phone. If you need the best of the best it’s likely not the phone for you. But if you just use somthing like an iPhone 16 or a Samsung Galaxy S25 this is a really compelling upgrade since you get more screen without needing to add more weight to your hand.
When I reviewed it, despite not being as great as its flagship counterpart, the S25 Edge is still an amazing device, and I enjoyed the phone a lot more than the Ultra.
I like to think about Star Trek when I’m pondering future technology (not Star Wars, that’s in the past), or even Iron Man, and whenever the crew would use phones or communicate with people they would use a hologram, or a very thin invisible tablet like device. I think the way to get the invisible thin tablet, is by slowly making phones thinner and thinner, and I can’t wait.
I think companies like Samsung and Apple, and definitely more to come, will start making their phones thinner and thinner and eventually these will be some of their only options.
Consider the Samsung Galaxy Note series, which people would mock for being too big. But now most handsets, and pretty much all flagships, are larger than that first Note size as well. I think thin phones will follow a similar trajectory.
What do you think, do you think your next phone will be extremely thin? Let us know in the comments below.
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