iPhone 17 Air, Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim price range and thickness leak

03 January 2025
One of them is thicker than previously thought.

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Can't wait to buy phones with worse battery life, yay.

(I think they'll keep the same battery life by using denser new generation batteries)

    "Samsung allegedly hastily started developing the Galaxy S25 Slim after hearing about Apple's plans for the iPhone 17 Air."
    That perfectly sums up Samsung's relationship with Apple

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      • Anonymous
      • gKB
      • 04 Jan 2025

      iphone 16 sold like iphone 17 hahahahhahahaha

        Flooh, 04 Jan 2025Yeah, exactly, I don't understand. Apple is killing th... moreI always wanted slimmer. Talk for yourself. I remember how my hand felt when i hold bricks and when i hold a slim phone

          User935, 04 Jan 2025I've never in the past 10+ years heard a single person... moreNoob how th heck u use your phone . U stay with yo ass on it . Bend it when u bored? Learn to use phone.I would want a slim one. It s more comfortable to use than a tick brick believe me. As i have big hands.

            One of them will be worth it, the other genuine e-waste

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              • paf
              • 04 Jan 2025

              "Samsung allegedly hastily started developing the Galaxy S25 Slim after hearing about Apple's plans for the iPhone 17 Air." Sorry but this is BS. Whenever Apple "hears" (through spies or leaks) that competition is doing something innovative or just going a certain path, Apple "spreads" (own leaks) the rumor they were working on this just to earn the credits, and it always works because writers and youtubers just repeat the same BS narrative.
              Whoever does it first sets the trend, and not the one who spreads the leaks first. As simple is it. Period.

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                • Anonymous
                • 3SL
                • 04 Jan 2025

                Rkm, 04 Jan 2025Current compactish phones with SiC have 5500mah batteries (... moreA reduction from 7.5mm to 6mm thickness means a reduction of 22% of the phones volume. Also don’t forget the Xiaomi 15 and Vivo are 187-192 grams while S24 is 167-168. Putting SiC and keeping the dimensions and weight would net maybe 300 mah more. If you look at the iQOO Z9 turbo and the endurance edition, they are the same phone but the endurance has Si/C, and the improvement is 400 mAh while the weight is +1g. Si/C is not the huge breakthrough everybody thinks it is. It‘s maybe 2x-3x than what the yearly progress in Lithium Ion battery technology nets anyway, which is 2.5-5%. What’s annoying is that everyone uses this to justify making the phones even thicker and heavier to put batteries of 6500mAh and more in them. At some point the bulk is enough and then it’s time to remember that a phone is still a device held in hands and that ergonomic considerations are important as well. But with Apple/Samsung releasing thinner phones, and Oppo/Vivo releasing smaller phones (that are the size of Apple‘s standard size phone), I‘m hopeful there will be lighter+smaller base model flagships in the future. Bigger batteries are useful for keeping the devices longer, however the flagships batteries of today last 3x as long as those from 5 years ago while getting 2x the software support, so I think that’s enough and that the time has come to focus on lighter devices again.

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                  • dMa
                  • 04 Jan 2025

                  Anonymous, 04 Jan 2025So? Would that justify completely killing smaller, thinner,... moreI totally agree and the problem is even more prevalent in the cheap smartphone world. You can't get a cheaper small phone at all nowadays. My Redmi Note 12 is almost unusable with its 6,7" screen and I don't have small hands.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 3SL
                    • 04 Jan 2025

                    potato4k, 04 Jan 2025Huh? If one can get a phone with the same battery endurance... moreBut the people here would rather keep the bulk and have even bigger batteries. Don’t know what they will do though with 3 day battery (or they are addicted to their phones and still only get 1 day with 20% left)

                      Nameless, 04 Jan 2025Sounds great. My Tab A9+ is 6.9mm thick and it's fine.... moreCan't believe your using a much larger tablet as a reference

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 3SL
                        • 04 Jan 2025

                        Anonymous, 04 Jan 2025Why don't they get it people want light weight phones ... moreSlim phones are more lightweight usually.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 3SL
                          • 04 Jan 2025

                          Anonymous, 04 Jan 2025Only if you have child size hands lol...So? Would that justify completely killing smaller, thinner, lighter phones? If so, should clothing only come in L and XL sizes as well?

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                            • dMa
                            • 04 Jan 2025

                            User935, 04 Jan 2025I've never in the past 10+ years heard a single person... moreYeah, exactly, I don't understand. Apple is killing the plus lineup that few people buy to replace it with something nobody wants. Interesting.
                            And now Samsung is mindlessly copying that

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                              • pD$
                              • 04 Jan 2025

                              potato4k, 04 Jan 2025The Slim is a test. If the sales are good, I’m sure Samsung... moreYeah, so it will take 5 years for Samsung to launch an improved S and S+...while chinese brands are now launching improved phones every 6 months. Time for Samsung to wake up...

                                I've never in the past 10+ years heard a single person say "I wish my phone were less thick."
                                Are there really people who would want that? And why exactly? They'll just be less comfortable to use, more prone to bending, the hideous "camera islands" will protrude more or we'll get even worse lenses...

                                Very weird this industry nowadays. I'd rather they stay as thick or get thicker but with more useful features.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 7v0
                                  • 04 Jan 2025

                                  Rkm, 04 Jan 2025Current compactish phones with SiC have 5500mah batteries (... more6500mAh++ phone is the lightest for me. 4000mAh with power bank and cable is too heavy for me.

                                    As soon as we heard about the production of an iPhone 17 Air which will have the particularity of being very thin, then Samsung rushed to throw out stories about the upcoming production of an S25 Slim which will also be very thin, this classmate who always says me me me too, pathetic

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                                      • 04 Jan 2025

                                      Sounds great. My Tab A9+ is 6.9mm thick and it's fine. 6.5mm with a case will be perfect. Finally not a brick in the pocket. It all depends now on the battery size.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • TmE
                                        • 04 Jan 2025

                                        potato4k, 04 Jan 2025Just like Apple hastily putting AI (aka begging Google and ... moreCall it what you want but its sad that a billion dollar company cant do its own thing this days
                                        Same for Apple or any other
                                        So much money wasted on marketing, managers salarys, "R&D"... And nobody bothers to ask people what they want/would like
                                        People at the top thinking they know better and it always in all scenarios leads to failure

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