Galaxy S25 Edge is razor-thin but fails to be bold in one regard

The Galaxy S25 Edge's main selling point is its bold design. It's razor-thin, super lightweight, and uses exotic materials like titanium and the new Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 protection.

However, for a bold device that prides itself on its next-gen design, the Galaxy S25 Edge doesn't seem all that courageous in one aspect: color options. It's very bland in this regard.

On the one hand, I can understand why Samsung wanted to play it safe. The Galaxy S25 Edge is a brand-new addition to the S series, and there's no way Samsung can accurately predict how fans and consumers will receive it. The company couldn't go all-in on bold colors and finishes, so it picked some of the safest colors you can think of:

As I write this article at my desk, I am glancing over to my old discharged Galaxy Note 10 and wondering how the Galaxy S25 Edge would've looked with a mirror finish similar to Aura Glow. With its 5.8mm-thin profile, I think it would have been spectacular.

Even a few colors that don't look like they were hand-picked from a bluish grayscale might have gone a long way. Something like Coral Red or Mint from the regular Galaxy S25 comes to mind.

As I said, I understand the logic behind giving the Galaxy S25 Edge fewer colors. Samsung took a bit of a risk adding a new model to the S series. And I know that manufacturing a new phone in too many color options poses an even greater risk.

However, I still wish Samsung had given the Galaxy S25 Edge a few online exclusive colors, at the very least. It could have manufactured those exclusive colors in smaller quantities based on demand.

To wrap this up, as much as I am impressed with the Galaxy S25 Edge's thin profile, clever engineering, and incredible size-to-weight ratio, I can't shake the feeling that, for such a boldly designed phone, the Galaxy S25 Edge's color choices fail to impress.

Besides, I believe that the Galaxy S25 Edge is the kind of phone that many people will want to show off and use without a protective case. In which case, the lack of color choices becomes even more evident.

At the end of the day, having only three bland colors doesn't make the Galaxy S25 Edge a bad phone by any stretch of the imagination. But as I fiddle around with my retired Note 10, I will continue to wonder what the ultra-thin Galaxy S25 Edge could have looked like in a mirror finish.