The utterly thin and embellished Galaxy S25 Edge was not a part of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked’s official announcements, but the flagship is said to arrive in April, boasting one of the sleekest chassis for a 2025 flagship. While the device is a product of the Korean giant’s design ingenuity, the company cannot escape the laws of physics, meaning that it has to compromise on the battery capacity and charging speeds, as revealed in the latest 3C certification.
New 3C certification shows that Samsung has yet to jump on the silicon-carbon battery train, which will allow it to introduce more Galaxy S25 Edge successors down the road
A few specification details were spotted by Abhishek Yadav on X, showing two areas where Samsung is expected to compromise in; the battery capacity and charging speeds. The 3C certification indicates that the Galaxy S25 Edge will feature a small 3,900mAh cell and support up to 25W. For comparison purposes, the base Galaxy S25 ships with a larger 4,000mAh battery. For those surprised to read about these details, that is the price to pay for making the Galaxy S25 Edge extremely thin, but it is also a grim reminder that as big of a company as Samsung is, it has yet to adopt the latest technological standards as its competitors.
For instance, the majority of Chinese smartphone makers have transitioned to silicon-carbon battery technology which is why their flagships and mid-rangers ship with cells that go beyond the 6,000mAh capacity range. While Samsung and Apple are rumored to be working on bringing this technology to future devices, both technology giants are currently trailing behind the competition. Even if the Galaxy S25 Edge’s thinness continued to be an obstacle, silicon carbon batteries would at least allow the upcoming flagship to sport a 5,000mAh battery.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge.
🔋 3900mAh battery 🥴
⚡ 25 watt charging 😵💫Via: 3C certification website #SamsungGalaxyS25Edge pic.twitter.com/be1XKQzEqm
— Abhishek Yadav (@yabhishekhd) January 24, 2025
As for the charging speeds, it is likely that Samsung has limited the Galaxy S25 Edge’s wattage intake to 25W to prevent the innards from overheating, which will consequently reduce the smartphone’s lifespan, not to mention degrade the battery faster. Even then, the company has crammed in the faster version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite as it has with the rest of its lineup, with a previous benchmark revealing that the Galaxy S25 Edge’s chipset had its performance cores operating at 4.47GHz instead of the default 4.32GHz.
Sadly, the Galaxy S25 Edge failed to impress in the multi-core category, obtaining scores significantly lower than what a Snapdragon 8 Elite should achieve, but it could either be that the device’s software was unoptimized or its extreme thinness is causing performance bottlenecks. Whatever the reason, those who intend to make the Galaxy S25 Edge their daily driver are well-informed now that this particular handset will not deliver the same runtime as the other models and will top up slower too.
News Source: Abhishek Yadav
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