Why you like the Galaxy S25 Edge more than the experts do

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Why you like the Galaxy S25 Edge more than the experts do 33 minutes ago I will wear two hats today - one as a reviewer and one as a consumer. That’s because I’ve been on both sides and know exactly how the two brains function, and perhaps make sense of how differently they each perceive the same product. This is exactly what we need today, because the device in focus is perhaps as polarizing in acceptance as those two minds themselves. The Galaxy S25 Edge isn’t a conventional smartphone . It’s by design (quite literally) made to divide the jury in half, and it did achieve that objective. While reviewers largely weren’t fans of the phone overall, consumers, on the other hand, seem to be loving it. Reddit - the shining beacon of consumer truth - says so on not one but multiple occasions . And there are a few reasons for this split that I want to dissect. When choosing a phone, what influences you more? The comparison fatigue I thought it would be a good thing that being a reviewer gets me to test out so many phones throughout the year. While writing this story, though, I’ve come to realize that it might actually be working against me. You know how it goes - when you have experience with so many phones, you end up setting several benchmarks in your head. Which phone is better, which one isn’t, and how exactly one differs from the other. And you use all that accumulated judgment to review a fresh phone. This works in most cases, but ever since smartphones essentially haven’t changed a lot in many years, when something different like the Galaxy S25 Edge comes along, that pattern falls off track. The judgments don’t align well with what a consumer might want; instead, they stem from what experience has trained you to expect. This predictive judgment - rather than perceived judgment - often works at odds with the phone you’re reviewing and puts it in a bad light without regard for what users might or might not actually like. Getting to play with so many phones also dulls the exposure a bit. It makes reviewers less sensitive to the novelty a particular phone brings (in this case, the Galaxy S25 Edge) and pushes them to benchmark it against phones that may not even be in the same league. You don’t go with the extraordinary expecting the usual. One aspect that even we reviewers sometimes neglect is that while our experience includes a lot of breadth, it severely lacks depth. Constantly switching between phones isn’t the same as using a single device for several months. My acceptance of the iPhone only grew once I lived with it long-term - a full year of use as my primary device. You can only get that kind of depth when you use a phone for months at a stretch instead...

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