Let’s start with the obvious: the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is an impressively thin phone. I have held his 5.8 mm chassis in my hand and marveled at his slender titanium frame, but if I am honest, his charm was somewhat cushioned to me for what I thought at first was an obvious deficit: the lack of a true teleobjective lens.
Now, however, after spending a little time with the new Android phone and evaluating its unusual set of features, I see things a bit differently, and I think, ultimately, consumers will also do so.
First, this is what you get in the camera on the samsung galaxy s25 edge:
On the front there is a 12MP Aighter Selfie camera that, something surprising, presents a wider field of 5 degrees than any other Galaxy S25 phone (85 degrees instead of 80 degrees FOV). Do you have more friends who want to gather and look at your ultra skin phone? Now you can take them all in the frame.
It is the rear camera matrix where things get interesting. First, it has the 12MP Ultrawide Chamber (120 FOV). This lens will accommodate dramatic shots of great angle and macro photography and, as I see, it is, for example, for any good flagship system.
The remaining lens is the most impressive of the S25 edge. It is essentially the same 200 MP sensor that you find in the Samsung Galaxy S25 ultra of $ 1,299.99. The filling of that lens on a phone that shares many of its specifications with the Galaxy S25 Plus of base is unexpected and a great achievement when it considers that this is a smart phone of 5.8 mm and 163 grams.
I am not surprised then relieved
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Even before seeing the S25 advantage in person and long before I learned the full specifications sheet, I assumed that the phone would not include a decent teleobjective. After all, there is surely not enough space for a parakeet, which needs a prism, a right angle and enough space to accommodate zoom optical technology. However, when I knew that the Galaxy S25 EDGE would begin at $ 1,099.99 without any teleobjective, it disappointed me.
The 200MP sensor has changed my perspective, not only because it is an excellent camera that will use to take most quality photos (usually in the range of 12MP or 50MP) but for what you can do with that sensor to create a zoom effect.
“2x optical zoom quality” is how Samsung describes what you will get with the S25 edge. What it means is that in the 2x zoom mode, the phone triggers the complete 200MP resolution of the main camera sensor, and then occurs in the best pixels for a “zoom”. The good thing about this is that Samsung is not manipulating pixels as it does with the 10X digital zoom. These are pure artisanal pixels that will essentially feel it as if you were twice your subject.
Zoom versus useful commitment
I will not lie. I will always prefer more optical zoom. I loved the old 10x optics in the Ultra Galaxy S23 despite the fact that it was only 10MP and depended largely on the 5x optical lens optical on the iPhone 16 Pro Max. It is also worth noting that Apple makes a little sensor cut for the range of zoom 2x in its Pro cameras.
However, what the Samsung Galaxy S25 EDGE of 6.7 inches is a good commitment. The phone is not just a stretched and crushed galaxy. It is a hybrid that combines a beautiful thin design with the best sensor in the S25 line, one shared only by the most expensive ultra.
So, although I miss the largest zoom, I think the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge may have found a sweet photography point. Of course, I will know with certainty when we can try the phone.
