The industrial design of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is amazing…ly bad.
Rene Ritchie from iMore more than 10 years ago:
Recently there was a brouhaha about a Qualcomm sticker junking up the Samsung Galaxy S6 on Verizon. You don't see a sticker like that on the iPhone 6 or any other iPhone, of course, because Apple cares more about the look of their product than the licensing fees or other considerations refusing it entails. Same with Intel Inside stickers on the Mac.
But when I looked at the picture of Samsung's product, it wasn't the sticker that bothered me so much. That, I assume, can be peeled off. It was something else I saw that bothered me, and something I can now never un-see.
It's the lack of basic alignment.
That same article was updated yearly to show the Galaxy S7, S8, and S9 compared to the equivalent iPhone of that year, and the iPhone was just unmatched in hardware design and philosophy.
Samsung’s phones have gotten better at making things properly aligned front to back, but are still nowhere near symmetrical. With the S25 Edge, they have taken a step back with their alignment.
All the components are aligned on the x-axis, but not the y-axis. The components are all set towards the back of the phone. It is a thin device, and even Apple is rumored to have a USB-C port that isn’t centered on the 17 Air, but to make the whole row of components shift towards the rear of the phone is disappointing. This picture from Tom’s Guide says it all, and I’ve added a line to demonstrate my point.
Source: Tom’s Guide
Tech Radar had their own hands-on, and they got an even more heinous looking device:
The phone is not very symmetrical, and it doesn’t seem to have the same fit and finish as the Galaxy S25 Ultra. On the bottom, USB-C port is centered, but the speaker port and the SIM card slot are both haphazardly aligned. The SIM card holder doesn’t even seem to fit perfectly flush with the phone on some of the units I saw, as you can see in my photo below.
A hodge podge of holes, ports, and slits.
Source: TechRadar
The power and volume buttons also are shifted towards the back of the frame, which just adds insult to injury.
Source: MKBHD
If you’re going to go thin, make it thin and pretty, not thin and malnourished.