Do you still remember last year's madness when he had 2025 every smartphone manufacturer feels that what we crave most is ultra thin pancakes? Models like Samsung have entered the market Galaxy S25 Edge to iPhone AirAnd so that we don't just stick to the two biggest giants, Motorola has also joined in with Edge 70, Nubia Air, Tecno Slim and a whole host of flexible phones that competed to see who would offer the slimmest profile.
And the result? A complete fiasco, perhaps with the exception of flexible phones, where the thinness makes sense, but not elsewhere. But who would have thought that people wouldn't buy fragile-looking phones with stripped-down features and a price tag that paradoxically exceeded the classic top models? According to unofficial figures, the iPhone Air sold less than a million units (while the rest of the iPhone 17 series attacked the 250 million mark) and weak sales Galaxy S25 Edge dealt a solid blow to Samsung.
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Logically, we would expect manufacturers to learn their lesson and put these failed experiments on ice. But around AppiPhone leaks are already circulating Air 2. Apple apparently thinks it will work out the second time, albeit with a longer delay. The second generation of his Airu should arrive in the spring of next year, not the traditional September. I honestly fear that others are working on something similar - and most of all I hope that Samsung does not introduce it next year Galaxy S27 Edge...He can do much better things.
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Real progress belongs in the main flags, not in side experiments
I don't want to be unfair. Samsung has already put the technology it developed for extreme thinness to good use. When it introduced this year Galaxy S26 Ultra, did not forget to emphasize that the thickness of 7,9 mm is 0,3 mm less than its predecessor. Similarly, the middle class in the form of Galaxy A57, which at 6,9 mm thick is half a millimeter slimmer than the A56 model, and when I held it in my hand, the lightness and elegance were really noticeable.
This is how it should be. Learn from a failed experiment and apply the best to regular models. And that's why it doesn't make sense to me for Samsung to waste energy on an S27 EdgeIf last year's Edge just an overpriced concept, I don't want a second version of it. I'd rather see standard flagships refined.
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Nowadays we don't want to pay more for less music
I understand where the wind is blowing from. Component prices are constantly rising, and it's easier for manufacturers to entice radical design changes than expensive internal upgrades if they want to maintain margins and not drive up the price of phones to absurd heights. But thin phones simply don't offer a good price-performance ratio.
When the iPhone was standing Air a thousand dollars and Galaxy S25 Edge even at $1,099, they were noticeably more expensive than their standard siblings (Galaxy S25, iPhone 17), even though they offered worse specifications (whether it was a weaker battery, or worse cooling, or cut-down cameras). Paying more money for less music is simply nonsense. In today's economic situation, people are turning every penny and want for their money maximum. A thin phone makes no sense in this regard.
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People don't want thinner phones. They want smaller phones.
The main problem with this whole "ultraThe "thin" mania is that customers never want thinner phones. nestOh, by the way. Most people I talk to, on the other hand, prefer larger displays. And the other, very vocal group that's calling for more compact devices, they don't want a razor-thin phone. They want a phone that's smaller overall.
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If your phone gets in the way in your pocket or you can't comfortably hold it in your palm, it's not because of its thickness in profile. It's because of its overall height and width. A thin profile doesn't solve this problem at all.
Samsung has a recipe for a compact phone – a standard Galaxy S26 with its 6,3-inch display, it is one of the best that a fan of reasonable sizes can buy today. And next year we could expect Galaxy S27 For, which will provide the best in comparison Galaxy S27 Ultra in a smaller body. And that's why there are so many hopes for a hit around him. So I hope that in Seoul they will hold their noses, they will not repeat last year's mistakes and the chapter called "Galaxy Edge"They'll leave it closed once and for all."
