Just two months ago, accepted wisdom was that there would be no Galaxy S26 Plus, Samsung\u2019s mid-sized flagship canned in favor of a slim Edge phone. Now things have flipped, with the Edge supposedly cancelled and the Plus not only on track to release early next year, but revealed in new renders based on the phone\u2019s leaked specs.<\/p>\n
Samsung\u2019s S26 line-up seems to have been in turmoil for some time. At one point leakers were in agreement that a reinvention was on the way, with the familiar Ultra model joined by an Edge and a smaller Pro. Now convention seems to have won out, with the Pro swapped for the regular S26, and the Edge for the Plus<\/a>, and we don\u2019t know if either of the dropped phones will ever see the light of day.<\/p>\n Android Headlines reports that the S26 Plus will be 7.35mm thick. That\u2019s about as thick as the S25 Plus<\/a>, and comfortably chunkier than the 5.8mm S25 Edge<\/a>, so this doesn\u2019t appear to be the second-gen thin phone with Plus model branding. The site separately reports<\/a> that the regular S26 will be 7.24mm, a little thicker than leaks had pegged the Pro model, suggesting Samsung really is pulling away from the thin phone trend it itself started with the first Edge this year.<\/p>\n