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Galaxy S25 Edge Retail Unboxing and First Impressions - Should Anyone Buy This Samsung?
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Jun 26, 2025
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what's up YouTube jeff back from Sammy
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Guru here and today another very
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exciting Samsung video for you guys
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Today I have the brand new Galaxy S25
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Edge which hits the stores tomorrow
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People who got their pre-orders in
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should be receiving it today Now this is
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actually a unit Samsung sent out to me
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for review So huge shout out to them I
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do appreciate that But I also got my
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review unit or not my review unit rather
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This is the review unit I got my retail
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unit as well today And so I'm going to
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show you guys the blue color in this
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video And I also got the Galaxy S25 Edge
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Kind Suit case that I ordered with my
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retail unit So we'll take a look at that
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and give you guys some initial
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impressions So I've been using their
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unit for about 48 hours so I can speak a
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little bit to battery life and some
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other things Uh before we do get into
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that though I do want to remind you guys
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stand The S25 Edge closes actually today
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tomorrow when the S25 Edge closes So if
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you guys want to get in that very early
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you can The link's in the pin comment
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and description below So S25 Edge um I
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did a hands-on in New York that Samsung
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invited me to You guys saw the pictures
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on our website You can see here here's
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the S25 Ultra versus the Edge There you
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guys can see the difference between the
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Edge and the Ultra It's not quite half
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as as wide but it's it's very very
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noticeable difference between the two Um
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that's the one thing I would say about
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the Edge is obviously the appeal is is
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in the thinness of the device That's the
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entire appeal of it And because of that
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you know if you're buying this you
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really have to want to trade off those
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extra cameras that you're getting on the
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Ultra the S Pen the extra battery life
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and I'll talk about some of my
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experience there in a second Better
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thermals for sure um for this thin
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profile But it is really something once
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you hold it in the hand I also do like
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the camera module here a little bit
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better The design just the general look
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of it versus those kind of faux uh
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camera rings that are on the S25 Ultra A
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little more natural look on the edge I'm
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definitely a fan of that In terms of the
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industrial design build quality I mean
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this thing is super solid I don't really
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feel like it's going to snap or bend or
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any of that kind of crazy stuff that we
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sometimes worry about when you have a
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thinner device You can see it's so thin
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that actually when I go this way the
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camera is trying to not focus on this
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It's trying to focus on the stuff that's
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in the outer frames even though I have
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the focus area set to the middle Um so
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let's let's talk a little bit about
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performance Performance you know it's
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got the same processor as the rest of
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the S25 series Performance has been fine
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Uh I will say that I tried it on
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standard performance profile in the very
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beginning for a little while and uh it
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it does run a little warm if you're
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doing a lot of multitasking and stuff
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like that So I would say that if you're
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going to be doing a lot of multitasking
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those kind of things that you probably
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want to switch it to the light
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performance profile because thermals
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with all that you know less space in
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there it's just natural that there's
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going to be a little less performance a
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little bit more heating going on with
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the Edge Of course once I do a couple
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weeks with it I'll do a full review at
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Sammy Guru do a full written review but
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I do recommend switching into light
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performance profile if you buy this
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phone and you're not going to be doing a
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lot of heavy stuff cuz of course gaming
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is not affected anyway Now in terms of
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battery life the battery life is not as
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bad as I thought it would be but given
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the small cell that is in this phone you
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cannot expect crazy battery life I would
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say the last the first two days I was
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around 15% around 5:30 p.m Uh I just
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charged this one this morning here so I
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could make the video I've already lost
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13% in like a little over an hour Um
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this thing does drain pretty fast if
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you're doing a lot of tasks Um you're
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probably going to need to charge at some
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point throughout the day I usually
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around 45 to 50% around 5:00 pm in my
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S25 Ultra So you can see about 35% less
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with the same general usage on the Edge
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Now I am going to switch my main SIM
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This since this was a review unit I had
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a SIM in it that Samsung provided I'll
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switch my main SIM from my Ultra to the
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Edge for 2 weeks to do the review And
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we'll see It could potentially be even
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worse um once we get there Now camera
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quality I haven't really had a chance to
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dive into this fully cuz obviously I've
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only had it for 2 days But my initial
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impressions are very good from the main
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camera which makes sense because it is
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you know this 200 megapixel sensor that
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we come to expect from the S25 Ultra I
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will do some zoom shots because of
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course one of the main concerns that I
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have in terms of you know became a
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prouser using this particular camera is
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you only have you know up to the two
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times zoom here on the optical side You
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can go four and 10 but those are not
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optical zooms So you're you're not
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you're theoretically getting some lower
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quality Now Ice Universe and some others
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took some photos and you know they said
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that the quality is actually quite good
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I did take some photos of my boys and
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things like that just out and about The
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general photo quality on the main sensor
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is great and I will do some more
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investigating when it comes to that zoom
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sensor but that's my main concern is
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that particular sensor if you're a
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prouser Of course you also lose the S
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Pen and there's no way they're ever
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going to get an S pin in here because
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basically this phone is only as wide as
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the USBC port There you go You can see
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here if you lie the S Pen like this the
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edge is basically just as wide as the S
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Pen So you're definitely never going to
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get an S Pen inside this Edge phone But
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um you know if that's not something that
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matters to you then maybe that's not a
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huge deal Uh let's bring in here the
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blue color real quick There's really
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nothing in the box You know unboxings
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are kind of a thing of the past because
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there's really not much in there right
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of course we don't get a charger We just
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got a cable There's no case or anything
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in there from Samsung But here's the
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blue
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versus the
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silver And uh I personally like the blue
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That's what I went with on my retail
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unit I got the 512 gig just cuz I use my
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phones a lot obviously for work You
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don't see the Samsung logo as
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prevalently on the blue either It's a
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slightly different shade of blue than
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the S25 Ultra Blue uh that released This
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is titanium icy blue And then let me
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just rip into this case really quickly
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and we can take a look at that too This
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case it's right there Ku case was
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actually surprisingly a hit I wasn't
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sure it was going to be great on the um
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the Ultra but it surprisingly was very
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good This kyn suit case is a little
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different though because one thing that
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you notice immediately is that the
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bottom is actually fully opened here on
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this device So you can see the Ultra
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it's not it's actually there's a it's a
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piece of um not it's not leather but
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there's a piece of going across the
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bottom of the material So if you
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actually compare though let's compare
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the case on the Edge versus the Ultra
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and you're looking at probably around
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almost the same thickness if you put
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this case on your Edge versus if you
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wear have the Ultra with no case So that
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could make a big difference It's still
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equally as light It's lighter um even
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with the case on there And uh this case
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does look very nice So I would recommend
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it if you want a first-party Samsung
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case Obviously I still need to set this
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particular phone up and I'll do that in
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a bit Anyway I will have a full review
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Wanted to share some thoughts since it
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came out I didn't get my review until
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pretty late so unfortunately this is the
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earliest I could make a video but I
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wanted to share some thoughts with you
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guys Battery life is definitely a
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concern Um if you're not a heavy user
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maybe the thermals aren't such a big
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concern but the battery life I think is
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going to be a concern For even more
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average users you're probably going to
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need to carry around a portable charger
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Uh but if you literally love the
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lightness I mean for a phone this screen
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size you really should hold in your hand
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just to see if it's something you might
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like because it is pretty impressive and
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you might decide that you never want to
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go back because the S25 Ultra definitely
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feels very weighty in the hand by
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comparison Anyway hope you guys enjoyed
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