Samsung reportedly just cancelled a major Galaxy | Tech News

Samsung has been often releasing its flagship Galaxy S Android telephones for effectively over a decade. Nowadays, the tech giant opts to unveil its best telephones of the yr in January or February because it did earlier in 2025 with the Galaxy S25 line up.

This included the S25, S25 Plus and S25 Ultra, however then in May this yr, Samsung added a fourth gadget to the S25 household when it launched the ultra-thin S25 Edge, which is just 5.8mm thick in comparison with the 8.2mm S25 Ultra.

Even although the S25 Edge is the primary of its type, in accordance with studies, Samsung has already pulled the plug on the S26 Edge, which means the S25 Edge could possibly be set to grow to be a curious footnote in Samsung smartphone historical past.

According to Korean media outlet NewsPim and backed up by SamMobile, Samsung has cancelled the Galaxy S26 Edge, which might have been 2026’s successor to the S25 Edge.

“The main reason for this decision is said to be significantly lower-than-expected sales”, NewsPim reported (translated from Korean).

SamMobile mentioned Samsung had initially deliberate to drop the ‘Plus’ model from the S26 line up, changing it with the S26 Edge that may launch alongside a common S26 and the high-end S26 Ultra, with no S26 Plus model.

But that’s believed to have been completely scrapped, with Samsung planning to revert to the S26, S26 Plus and S26 Ultra, mirroring the S24 and S25 ranges.

“The S25 Edge, which has already been released, is expected to be discontinued once all secured stock is sold out.” NewsPim mentioned, with the likelihood of a future slim Edge telephone “considered low”.

“I do not know if the slim line will come back, but it surely would not look simple for the time being,” the report quoted an unnamed Samsung official as saying. “I think you can consider it to have essentially disappeared.”

Though these reports suggest the Galaxy S26 Edge has been scrapped, this would be unusual, as it is understood the phone is well into development. Smartphone makers such as Samsung and Apple have product roadmaps that extend more than one year into the future, so we may still see the emergence of an S26 Edge or similar device.

But according to these latest rumours, it’s not as likely as it once was.

Samsung released the S25 Edge in May, before Apple released its equally slim iPhone Air model in September alongside the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro.

I reviewed the S25 Edge upon its release and located the {hardware} gorgeous. The telephone has many of the identical specs because the S25 Ultra however in an unbelievably skinny chassis, although the battery life was much less than pleasing. While it didn’t die on me over the course of a day, it hit 10 p.c often after medium use, and I had battery nervousness on a telephone that value £1,099.

The S25 Edge additionally lacks a telephoto digital camera, although it does have a predominant and ultra-wide lens the place the iPhone Air solely has a single shooter.

It’ll be fascinating to see if this spells the top of slim telephones given the trend has barely begun. Apple did not call its new telephone the iPhone 17 Air, just ‘iPhone Air’, suggesting it may not be considerably up to date subsequent yr.