Samsung recently announced its preliminary holiday-quarter earnings and as was the case with Apple’s revised guidance, things are not looking good. Will Samsung ever stop copying Apple!? (That was a joke, please don’t send me any whiny emails.) Samsung’s profit plummeted last quarter for a few main reasons, but the biggest is terrible performance from the company’s smartphone division. Put simply, Samsung’s 2018 smartphone lineup was an absolute snoozefest, especially at the high end.
The South Korean electronics giant typically pulls in a big share of its smartphone profit from flagship phone sales, which makes sense since the priciest phone models carry the best margins. The problem in 2018, however, was that Samsung’s flagship phones were horribly boring. The Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, and Galaxy Note 9 all looked exactly like their predecessors from back in 2017, and they offered no novel new features that might entice buyers. Surprise, surprise… sales sank like a rock as a result. Thankfully, Samsung looks ready to right its wrongs in 2019 with some of the most exciting new smartphones we’ve seen in years, and now we have yet another reason to be excited about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S10+.
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New Galaxy S10 leak from top Samsung insider reveals an unexpected surprise originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 08:17:30 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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