Tue. 05/13 – The Thin-Phone Era Is Here
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Brian McCullough
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The new thin phone era is definitively here with the Galaxy S25 Edge. Apple is working on a way to control your iPhone with your brain. For the first time a flagship DJI drone is NOT available in the US. And flying drones are cool, but you know what else is cool? Submarine drones.
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Links:
- Samsung Debuts $1,099 S25 Edge, Kicking Off Wave of Thin Phones (Bloomberg)
- Galaxy S25 Edge Hands-On: This Thin Phone Left a Deep Impression (CNET)
- Apple to Unveil New AI Tool to Increase iPhone Battery Life (Bloomberg)
- DJI is skipping the US with its most advanced drone yet (The Verge)
- German defence start-up plans underwater drones for naval surveillance (FT)
- Audible to Partner With Publishers to Create AI-Voiced Audiobooks (Bloomberg)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme Right Home for Tuesday, May 13th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:07.0 | The new Thinphone era is definitively here with the Galaxy S25 Edge. |
| 0:13.0 | Apple is working on a way to control your iPhone with your brain for the first time ever. |
| 0:18.0 | A flagship DJI drone is not available in the U.S. and flying drones are cool, |
| 0:23.5 | but you know what else is cool? Submarine drones. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.2 | Samsung has unveiled the $1,100 plus Galaxy S25 Edge, which is 5.8 millimeters thick and weighs 163 grams, |
| 0:42.7 | making it 30% thinner and 25% lighter than the S25 Ultra. It's arriving on May 30th. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm highlighting this first because this is the tip of the spear for the current and coming rage for super thin phones. |
| 0:57.0 | Quoting Bloomberg, the amount of weight we've pulled out of this device and the slimness of this device is just dramatic. |
| 1:02.8 | Blake Gaser, the company's head of smartphone product management for the Americas, said in an interview. |
| 1:08.0 | We've been hearing from our customers over the last few years that weight and hand feel is something very important to them. As phones are getting bigger and heavier, |
| 1:14.9 | they've really been looking for something that would just disappear in their pocket, end quote. |
| 1:19.5 | The launch comes months ahead of Apple's slimmed down iPhone 17 model. That device is expected to come |
| 1:26.1 | in at around the same thickness as the Galaxy |
| 1:28.3 | S-25 Edge and is planned to have a single back camera compared with two on the new edge handset. |
| 1:34.6 | Gaser said he's very confident our customers and others will find the S-25 Edge very compelling. |
| 1:39.9 | Samsung teased the new phone in January without revealing its specifications, price, or release date. |
| 1:44.9 | The phone has a 6.7-inch screen, matching the screen size on the S-255-plus, as well as 12 gigabytes of memory, |
| 1:52.1 | and storage options of 256 and 512 gigabytes. At $1,99, it's $100 more expensive than the Plus model and $200 cheaper than the S-25 Ultra. |
| 2:04.1 | Samsung said, it always intended to launch the headset at this price point and that tariffs weren't |
| 2:09.8 | a consideration in this case. The company manufactures devices for the U.S. market in South Korea, |
| 2:15.3 | Vietnam, and India, rather than in China, where Apple |
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