Samsung is going to produce an estimated 300 million smartphones in this year, according to an estimate from market research firm TrendForce. Compared to how large a pile of handsets that represents, the South Korea-based tech giant’s much-hyped experiment with foldable phones is only going to represent a small blip, at least at first. We now know the company is going to start its foldable phone production with at least 1 million units, according to comments from Samsung’s mobile chief DJ Koh as reported by South Korean news agency Yonhap News.
Depending on the market reaction Samsung observes, Koh continued, that number might climb. But he was insistent in his remarks, which were taken from last week’s Samsung developer conference in San Francisco, that, yes, these handsets are going to be extremely niche at the beginning. But the company is absolutely committed to seeing how far it can go here. Samsung, according to Koh, is going to release a new version of the foldable phone every year, the same way it does with its Galaxy flagship devices, and we’ll see the launch of the new foldable phones in the first half of 2019 “no matter what.”
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