The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge went up on the market in late Could, with its super-slim design being its largest promoting level. However experiences quickly emerged that the slim cellphone’s gross sales had been even slimmer. And that was regardless of Samsung providing engaging pre-order offers. Now, one other report from Korea sheds mild on the shortage of shopper curiosity within the Galaxy S25 Edge, forcing the corporate to chop again on manufacturing.
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The Elec experiences that the Galaxy S25 Edge is “promoting fewer items than the corporate anticipated.” On account of this, Samsung has lowered its manufacturing numbers of the machine. Sometimes, flagship telephones promote in massive numbers throughout the first three months of their launch, however that has not been the case with Samsung’s slimmest Galaxy cellphone but.
Weak shopper curiosity within the Galaxy S25 Edge has created one other drawback for the corporate. It wished to change the Galaxy S26 Plus with the Edge variant in its lineup subsequent yr, because the Plus mannequin clocks decrease gross sales than its common and Extremely siblings. Nonetheless, the relative lack of shopper curiosity within the Edge has sophisticated issues for the corporate.
The Galaxy S25 Edge is a formidable cellphone that packs cutting-edge internals in a 5.8mm slim chassis. Nonetheless, it makes a number of compromises to attain this thinness, together with utilizing a paltry 3,900mAh cell and giving up on the telephoto digital camera altogether. It appears the trade-offs are too steep for customers to purchase a slim cellphone.
Samsung is boosting the manufacturing of its upcoming foldables
Whereas Samsung is lowering manufacturing for the S25 Edge, it plans to make extra items of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 for the US market. The report claims Samsung will manufacture 600,000 items of its upcoming foldable in June for the US alone, up from 400,000 items for the Fold 6 and Flip 6 from final yr.
This isn’t as a result of it anticipates extra demand for the brand new foldables, although. As a substitute, the corporate desires to get extra items to the US market earlier than the 25% tariff hits.
In whole, although, the corporate apparently plans to fabricate solely round 930,000 items of the Fold 7, Flip 7, and Flip 7 FE. That is considerably lower than its unique plan of manufacturing 1.34 million items. Primarily based on demand, the corporate plans to extend manufacturing once more in July.