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Philip Michaels

Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone 17 Air could make this the year of the thin phone — but will shoppers bite?

Galaxy S25 Edge prototype next to iPhone 17 Air render.

If teasers and leaks are anything to go by, phone makers are becoming more obsessed with thinness with 1980s fitness gurus.

We already know about the Galaxy S25 Edge coming from Samsung — or at least we know one of the most salient details about the phone. When teasing the device at January's Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung promised "a form that's sleek, powerful and unlike anything you've seen before." And according to people who've laid eyes on the sample units Samsung's trotted out to display, the promised device looks thinner than any other phone out there.

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