The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge went up for sale in late May, with its super-slim design being its biggest selling point. But reports soon emerged that the slim phone’s sales were even slimmer. And that was despite Samsung offering attractive pre-order deals. Now, another report from Korea sheds light on the lack of consumer interest in the Galaxy S25 Edge, forcing the company to cut back on production.
The Elec reports that the Galaxy S25 Edge is “selling fewer units than the company anticipated.” Due to this, Samsung has lowered its production numbers of the device. Typically, flagship phones sell in large numbers within the first three months of their launch, but that has not been the case with Samsung’s slimmest Galaxy phone yet.
Weak consumer interest in the Galaxy S25 Edge has created another problem for the company. It wanted to replace the Galaxy S26 Plus with the Edge variant in its lineup next year, as the Plus model clocks lower sales than its regular and Ultra siblings. However, the relative lack of consumer interest in the Edge has complicated matters for the company.
The Galaxy S25 Edge is an impressive phone that packs cutting-edge internals in a 5.8mm slim chassis. However, it makes several compromises to achieve this thinness, including using a paltry 3,900mAh cell and giving up on the telephoto camera altogether. It seems the trade-offs are too steep for consumers to buy a slim phone.
Samsung is boosting the production of its upcoming foldables
While Samsung is reducing production for the S25 Edge, it plans to make more units of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 for the US market. The report claims Samsung will manufacture 600,000 units of its upcoming foldable in June for the US alone, up from 400,000 units for the Fold 6 and Flip 6 from last year.
This is not because it anticipates more demand for the new foldables, though. Instead, the company wants to get more units to the US market before the 25% tariff hits.
In total, though, the company apparently plans to manufacture only around 930,000 units of the Fold 7, Flip 7, and Flip 7 FE. That’s significantly less than its original plan of producing 1.34 million units. Based on demand, the company plans to increase production again in July.
