Naresh Nekkanti

Even as Samsung continues to post impressive earnings quarter after quarter, the company’s smartphone business remains a cause of worry. Cut-throat competition from Chinese brands and Apple’s continued domination in the premium segment has left Samsung struggling to retain its market share and profits. The company has undertaken many measures in the recent past to address […]

Gartner has released the global smartphone sales data for Q3 2018 and, like other recent reports, it brings bad news for Samsung. Gartner says the South Korean company has seen the biggest decline in sales since it started tracking global smartphone sales data. Though Samsung has once again emerged as the largest smartphone vendor globally, […]

According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Samsung Electronics was the fourth-largest R&D spender globally during the one-year period beginning H2 last year. The report, which looked into the R&D spending of the world’s 1,000 largest public companies, placed Samsung’s R&D spending at $15.3 billion, netting it the 4th rank for the second year in […]

The update model and openness of the ecosystem make Android smartphones less appealing for deployment in many enterprises and government institutions. Samsung tried to address some of the challenges by launching Enterprise Editions of its high-end devices and creating enterprise-deployment and management tools like Samsung Knox. The Galaxy S9 and A8 Enterprise Edition models, launched […]

Samsung has been facing daunting challenges in the mobile industry in the last couple of years. The company’s dominance in the smartphone market has been threatened by the aggressive expansion of many Chinese brands. Though Samsung is still the largest smartphone vendor in the world, growth has either stagnated or facing a decline in many […]

Samsung launched the Galaxy A6+ in May this year as a lower-midrange offering. Galaxy smartphones in this range typically don’t receive regular updates. Even when they do get an update, it is usually a bump in the security patch rather than new features. The latest Galaxy A6+ update, however, seems to be an exception as […]

According to a report in The Inquirer, Samsung is reportedly investing £31 million (~$40 million) in Niantic, creator of Ingress and Pokémon Go, for Galaxy-exclusive games. The deal supposedly involves pre-loading Niantic’s games on Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and may be announced in the next few weeks according to a source quoted in the report. The […]

Since the launch of Bixby, Samsung has been striving to make its AI platform more intelligent, integrated, and useful to its customers across product categories. Continuing its efforts, the company hosted the first Bixby Developer Day in Seoul to attract more third-party developers to expand the reach and capabilities of its AI platform. Samsung showcased […]