Samsung Cancels the Galaxy S26 Edge After the S25 Edge Crashes in Sales

Earlier this year, Samsung took the wraps off of their thinnest phone ever – the Galaxy S25 Edge. While it was teased alongside the Galaxy S25 lineup at Unpacked in January, it didn’t actually launch until May, which is likely what ultimately made it suffer.

Sales of the Galaxy S25 Edge have been pretty poor. So poor in fact, that Samsung has reportedly decided to cancel its successor. For the Galaxy S26 series, Samsung had planned to replace the “Plus” with the “Edge”. So you’d have a smaller option, a larger and thinner option, and then of course the big Ultra option.

Not only has the Galaxy S26 Edge been cancelled, but the company has also reportedly stopped manufacturing the Galaxy S25 Edge. This comes from Newspim, a Korean publication, which also has a quote from 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 is quick to pull the plug

It’s actually a bit surprising to see how quickly Samsung pulled the plug on the “Edge” here. As Apple typically gives new products like this a couple of years to really see how well, or how badly, it does. Take the “Mini” for example, we had an iPhone 12 Mini and an iPhone 13 Mini before moving to the iPhone 14 Plus. Which means, we probably will see an iPhone Air next year as well. Though given its naming, it doesn’t sound like Apple will release a new one every year.

Ultimately, what did Samsung in here was the price for the Galaxy S25 Edge. It was priced at $1,099, which is only $200 lower than the Galaxy S25 Ultra which was better in almost every way. And only $100 more than the Galaxy S25 Plus. If Samsung had adopted Silicon-carbon battery tech for the Galaxy S25 Edge, it likely would have sold better.

This is yet another example of Samsung releasing way to many phones. Here we have four Galaxy S25 smartphones between $799 and $1,299. And that’s now five if you count the Galaxy S25 FE which starts at $599.