Is the Galaxy S26 Edge dead? Samsung exec says 'we're assessing the right time for a follow-up'

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series just arrived, but a sequel to one particular Galaxy S model may not be coming at all, according to senior figures within the company.

In an interview with Tom's Guide, Drew Blackard, Samsung America's Senior Vice President of Mobile Product Management, stated that while the Galaxy S Edge line hasn't disappeared, he couldn't say when a sequel will arrive.

"I would say we're continuing to look at what we want to do next," says Blackard. "Obviously, last year we didn't launch [the Edge] with the core lineup. It launched in April last year, and to us, it was an important device in terms of the design innovation that you saw really come full circle with the Fold 7 launch. We're really getting much, much slimmer and lighter.

"All that said, it's still an in-market device that we have, so we've not end-of-lifed that device, and we're assessing when the right time to have a follow-up would be. But at this point, there's nothing I can share."

Blackard's not the only one from Samsung saying such things. Bloomberg interviewed Samsung's COO of Mobile Experience Business, Won-Joon Choi, who was surprisingly frank about Samsung's inner workings. Choi, who delivered a large part of the Galaxy Unpacked presentation on Wednesday, openly discussed the limitations of the Galaxy S25 Edge and Galaxy TriFold, and seemed to suggest that a Galaxy S26 Edge or Galaxy TriFold 2 could be a while off at best.

In the interview, Choi said that Galaxy S25 Edge sales had been “relatively lower than other lineups” in Samsung's stable — something that had been rumored in the months since the Galaxy S25 Edge's launch.

He continued to say: “We haven’t made a decision when to have a next one, but it’s still being considered.” All we might suggest to Samsung is to make sure any future Edge looks better in a price and specs comparison with other Galaxy S phones, as that feels like a major problem with the current model.

More foldables are coming, but maybe not more TriFolds

In the Galaxy TriFold's case, Choi openly stated to Bloomberg that "it was not the project I wanted to do,” back when he was head of Samsung's R&D Office. Nonetheless, he and the rest of the team worked on it with the view of “creating a new category and putting all of our know-how into this.”

“Now we wonder, should we develop a new one? We have not made a decision yet.”

The TriFold was never going to be a big seller. The difficulty of constructing a two-hinged phone, and the resulting high price and limited availability, made that clear. But it remains an impressive proof of concept, and something that few other phone makers are capable of making by themselves.

Fortunately, it sounds like the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 will still get sequels as expected. Plus, Choi did hint at the existence of the rumored wider Galaxy Z Fold, a different book-style foldable format, saying that Samsung was “considering all different options.”

If you want to catch up on what went down earlier this week, check our Galaxy Unpacked liveblog for a recap of the event and the latest news about the new devices. And don't forget to read our Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus and Galaxy S26 Ultra hands-on for our first impressions of the new phones.

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