The company’s latest device, which goes on sale in the US on May 30 for US$1,099, is 5.8mm thick and weighs 163 grams, making it about 30 per cent thinner and 25 per cent lighter than the S25 Ultra, the company’s highest-end smartphone.
The new handset is about as light as the base-model S25, but includes more premium features like a titanium frame, 200-megapixel rear camera and high-end artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
“The amount of weight we’ve pulled out of this device and the slimness of this device is just dramatic,” Blake Gaiser, the company’s head of smartphone product management for the Americas, said in an interview.
“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, they’ve really been looking for something that would just disappear in their pocket.”
