Call a coincidence or whatever else you want, but it is certainly a bit odd that both of the world’s top two smartphone companies found themselves in the same troubling position last year. Samsung and Apple, the top two smartphone makers in the world by profit and revenue, each badly misjudged the smartphone market in 2018. Rather than continuing to push the envelope and introduce exciting new designs or features on their flagship phones, they released new handsets that looked exactly like their predecessors and features no new marquee features whatsoever. At the same exact time, they had the audacity to make these boring new phones their most expensive handsets ever, further pressuring consumers to look elsewhere or just hold off on upgrading.
Where Samsung is concerned, the Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, and Galaxy Note 9 were each a spitting image of the company’s 2017 smartphones. They brought nothing new or exciting to the table, and sales plummeted as a result. Thankfully, the company will begin to right those wrongs as soon as next week, when the completely redesigned Galaxy S10 lineup is expected to debut. Apple, on the other hand, doesn’t launch next-generation iPhone models until the fall each year. That’s a long time to wait before Apple releases anything new in an effort to boost sales, so it’s understandable that the company would do anything it can to help give shipments a bump between now and then. With that in mind, a new report out of China suggests that Apple’s first updated iPhones of 2019 will launch much sooner than expected. In fact, the report claims that they’ll debut later this month.
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Report claims Apple’s first new iPhones of 2019 will be released this month originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 08:21:22 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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