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Xiaomi has gained a lot of ground at Samsung's cost lately after dethroning the Korean tech giant in a couple of markets and becoming the world's biggest smartphone brand in the process. But the year is not over yet, and we have now learned that Xiaomi is also gaining a lot more ground in LATAM […]
Love them or hate them, foldable devices are here to stay. Market watchers expect this emerging segment to grow massively by 2023, with Samsung likely to continue dominating the foldable market two years from now. The foldable device market in 2021 is showing a 3x growth compared to 2020, and Counterpoint Research expects foldable device […]
It looks like LG's retirement from the mobile industry will spell bad news for Samsung on its home turf. It turns out that Apple could end up selling iPhones and other fruit-labeled products in South Korea through LG's expansive retail infrastructure, after all, and thus becoming a much more significant threat to Samsung in the […]
Samsung has released its convenient ‘Door to Door' repair service to South Africa, the company confirmed today. Customers who might be experiencing issues with their Samsung products are no longer required to visit a customer care center. Instead, they can have their defective Galaxy devices picked up from home or office by a Samsung representative. […]
The worst thing about success is that there's nowhere for you to go but down. OK, maybe that's not the worst aspect of being a global commercial powerhouse, but Samsung's performance in the mobile segment is currently at its peak. And the nadir is drawing close, some industry watchers believe, opinionating that the company's too committed […]
One of Samsung's ads that were released last year was ranked 5th in Kantar's Creative Effectiveness Awards, beating all other mobile brands in the process. The data insight company has analyzed more than 10,000 ads from last year to determine which were the most creatively-effective, according to consumers, and you might be surprised to learn […]
Samsung is expected to post its Q1 earnings guidance next week but preliminary data from market analysts cited by Yonhap News looks promising already. Industry watchers expect Samsung's robust earnings from the mobile business to have balanced out the company's poor performance in the semiconductor space. Analysts predict the company will record 60.64 trillion won […]
2020 was a tough year for the European smartphone market, and although sales figures have recovered almost entirely by the end of the year, the smartphone market also experienced a massive sales decline of nearly 50% YoY in April 2020, three months after the number of COVID-19 cases started to rise, and one month after […]
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still quite palpable in every corner of the planet, including the world's most valuable smartphone market – the United States. According to some newly revealed industry data, stateside smartphone sales in the final quarter of 2020 declined 6% compared to the previous year. But at the same time, […]
2020 was an odd year for the Indian smartphone market for a few reasons. Things weren't looking great in the first half of the year because of the pandemic and the lockdowns that followed, but the smartphone market picked up in the second half of 2020 to the point where H2 shipments have surpassed the […]
Samsung is strengthening its image as a gamer-friendly smartphone manufacturer through a new partnership with the livestreaming platform Twitch. Samsung announced today that it is now the exclusive mobile device partner of Twitch Rivals North America. The latter is a series of online gaming events created for streamers and viewers. The two companies will be […]
Samsung is the biggest consumer electronics brand in the world. The company sells a wide variety of products, including smartphones, wearables, laptops, TVs, home appliances, and smart home devices. Another brand that followed Samsung’s footsteps in widening its product portfolio is Xiaomi. After entering the smartphone market, the Chinese brand eventually started competing with Samsung […]
2020 was an exciting year for fans of Samsung and Apple, but who got the better end of the bargain?
Samsung was more than happy to benefit from its rival's misfortune across numerous segments.
It’s the final stretch of the year and in many ways, we’re all happy to leave 2020 behind. For Samsung and its customer base, 2020 was a good-enough year given the circumstances. Firmware updates have arrived on time for the most part and plenty of exciting devices have come out of Samsung’s factory gates throughout […]