{"id":209246,"date":"2025-10-18T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:05:09","slug":"apple-samsung-to-cut-thin-phone-production-amid-poor-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209246\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Samsung to cut thin phone production amid poor sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thin phones have been struggling, as both Apple and Samsung are cutting back production of the iPhone Air and Galaxy S25 Edge.<\/p>\n<p>As for Samsung, the Korean tech giant is reportedly giving up on thin phones entirely, and has cancelled the upcoming Galaxy S26 Edge after the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2025\/07\/04\/samsung-galaxy-s25-edge-review-the-next-generation-of-smartphone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S25 Edge<\/a> flopped.<\/p>\n<p>According to Korean news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/m.newspim.com\/news\/view\/20251016000725\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsPim<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jukanlosreve\/status\/1978711444041650536?s=19\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Jukanlosreve<\/a> on X\/Twitter,\u00a0 the main reason for the cancellation is sales falling far short of expectations. Once the existing stock of the S25 Edge is sold out, that might be it for the Edge line.<\/p>\n<p>The report cites data from Hana Securities that says the S25 Edge only sold 190,000 units in its first month, and managed to sell 1.31 million units by August. In the same timeframe, the Galaxy S25 sold 8.28 million units, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2025\/02\/07\/samsung-galaxy-s25-ultra-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/a> sold 12.18 million units.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/10\/16\/the-galaxy-s25-edge-failed-so-badly-that-samsung-might-give-up-on-thin-phones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9to5Google\u00a0<\/a>points out, the decision to completely scrap the S26 Edge comes as a bit of a surprise, considering the device was expected to be released in January, with its design already being leaked online. Rumours suggested that the phone would be 5.5mm thick, slightly thinner than the 5.8mm S25 Edge and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2025\/09\/17\/iphone-air-canadian-review-holding-is-believing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5.64mm iPhone Air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the iPhone Air, it reportedly hasn\u2019t done any better. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/10\/17\/iphone-air-production-to-be-cut-amid-lower-sales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacRumors<\/a>,\u00a0the tech giant is planning to cut production of its ultra-thin phone amid slow sales of its own. Mizuno Securities, a Japanese investment banking and securities firm, believes that Apple plans to reduce production of the Air by one million units, while upping production of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2025\/09\/17\/iphone-17-canadian-review-more-value-than-ever-before\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2025\/09\/17\/the-iphone-17-pro-canadian-review-in-pursuit-of-perfection\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max<\/a> by two million units.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the slump in sales, the Air sold out within hours in China, according to MacRumors.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/10\/17\/iphone-air-production-to-be-cut-amid-lower-sales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/10\/16\/the-galaxy-s25-edge-failed-so-badly-that-samsung-might-give-up-on-thin-phones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9to5Google,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MobileSyrup may earn a commission from purchases made via our links, which helps fund the journalism we provide free on our website. These links do not influence our editorial content. Support us <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3J3VJYp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thin phones have been struggling, as both Apple and Samsung are cutting back production of the iPhone Air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[304,32183,56355,641,60379,2306,1560,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-209246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-galaxy-s25-edge","10":"tag-galaxy-s26-edge","11":"tag-iphone","12":"tag-iphone-air","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-samsung","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}