Galaxy S25 Edge flops so hard, Samsung pulls the plug on the lineup

Despite Samsung’s heavy marketing push and its head start over the iPhone Air, the Galaxy S25 Edge has turned out to be a flop for the company. The signs were already there, with sales of the phone struggling to pick up pace weeks after launch. Now, following poor consumer interest, Samsung has decided to discontinue its Galaxy Edge lineup for good — just five months after it started selling the S25 Edge.

A report from Korea's Newspim says Samsung has stopped manufacturing the S25 Edge, and it will discontinue the device once existing stocks run out. The company has also supposedly informed its employees that it will not launch the S26 Edge next year, effectively discontinuing the lineup.

Given the poor performance, the chances of Samsung's super-slim Galaxy Edge making a comeback in the foreseeable future remain bleak.

The report quotes an anonymous Samsung Electronics official saying, "I don't know if the slim line will come back, but it doesn't look easy at the moment. I think you can consider it to have essentially disappeared."

Samsung has seemingly already completed the S26 Edge's development. Confusingly, the report says that due to this, the company may launch the device separately in the future.

With the Edge no longer in the plan, Samsung's January 2026 Unpacked event will supposedly see it unveil the Galaxy S26 Pro, S26 Plus, and the S26 Ultra. This contradicts previous rumors about the company ditching the Plus next year in favor of the Pro model.

The Galaxy S25 Edge's high price and poor battery life seemingly played a key role in its poor sales. In the first month of its launch, Samsung apparently only sold 190,000 units, considerably lower than the 1.17 million units of the Galaxy S25.

Galaxy S25 Edge couldn't get the basics right

Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 Edge to get a head start on the iPhone Air. Apple's slim new iPhone stuns with its sleek design. Despite a few compromises to hit that thin 5.6mm profile, the iPhone Air nails the fundamentals in a way the Galaxy S25 Edge doesn't.

The Air ships with a significantly lower battery capacity than the S25 Edge and yet delivers almost all-day battery life, something which Samsung’s slim phone fails at.