Think back to January 2026 Unpacked and one moment stands out above all others: the big tease of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. The ultra-thin and light S25 Edge arrived alongside its Galaxy S25 smartphone siblings, but it was still in the development oven.
We could see the 5.8mm thick phone but not touch it. It would take another five months for the Galaxy S25 Edge to reach us and consumers. It was the thinnest Galaxy phone ever, until just a few months later, we met the incredibly thin Galaxy Z Fold 7 (just 4.2mm thick when unfolded).
The Galaxy S25 Edge is more important than you think
“It’s still in the portfolio today,” Drew Blackard, Samsung’s senior vice president of mobile product management, told me this week when I asked him about the “missing” Edge product.
“We are not at the ‘end of life’ of the product, we are still selling it… with all our major partners, etc.,” Blackard added.
In fact, you could argue that the S25 Edge played a pivotal role in the new S26 line. Firstly, there’s now a familiar and fairly consistent design language across all three Android 16 phones, reminiscent of the Edge. What’s more, this is the thinnest Ultra ever created; now reduced to 7.9 mm, despite still including the S-Pen.
Blackard agreed with my assessment: “It’s certainly influenced, I would say, the design, and you saw it even in the Fold 7 last year, to really push the boundaries of what’s possible in terms of thinness. It was a big step forward for us that we were then able to bring it into the Fold 7 and, for you, the influence I think on the S series this year with an even thinner form factor in the S26 Ultra.”
It’s certainly influenced, I would say, the design… to really push the limits of what’s possible in terms of thinness.
Samsung’s Drew Blackard
But it’s not just the influence. Blackard encouraged me to think about product cadence. “[The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge] “It hasn’t even lived a full life cycle in Samsung terms,” he told me. Which is true.
Preview of January 2025, launch in May and we’re only in February. Samsung is unlikely to release a product update less than a year after shipping the original S25 Edge.
All that said, there’s still something, well, uncertain about the way Blackard characterized when we’ll see another Edge.
“We’re still determining what the appropriate life cycle length is for a product like that. So we don’t have any updates on what might be coming.”
That’s not to say the future is generally uncertain. Slim phones are still available from Samsung, and Blackard made it clear that Samsung is simply considering slim next steps. “It’s still a category we’re really interested in, and we’re just figuring out what the right time might be for what’s next.”
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