Ahead of the company’s next Unpacked event on August 10th, Samsung’s President and Head of MX Business Dr. TM Roh has shared some interesting stats about its foldable smartphones in a new blog post.
Overcoming major technological challenges, Samsung successfully introduced the first-ever Galaxy foldable smartphone in 2019. “Last year, we saw almost 10 million foldable smartphones shipped worldwide,” notes Roh.
“That’s an industry increase of more than 300% from 2020, and I predict this fast-paced growth will continue,” he adds while noting that 70% of buyers have a strong preference for flip-phone-style foldable smartphones.
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Watch something greater than before unfold at https://t.co/D6nxwskXj1. #SamsungUnpacked pic.twitter.com/xopUxDhpRZ— Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile)
Roh also claims that Galaxy Flip users love their devices, whether choosing bold color options for their device or taking pictures in a new way with Flex mode.
It’s a different experience with the Fold. Nearly one out of three Galaxy foldable users last year opted for this ultimate productivity device, which has empowered them to do more through hyper-connected, individual computing. Fold users love the multitasking capability of a screen that doubles in size, so they can be more efficient and get things done faster.
Samsung is now all geared up to show off its new Galaxy foldables as “the ultimate tool for both productivity and self-expression” at next month’s Unpacked event.
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Meanwhile I’ve never seen one outside of the Samsung stores.
Probably see a lot at the landfill.
As if you would see a lot of foldable’s in the landfill. More like Apple’s iPhone SE’s you will find a ton of those in landfills, especially since the newest iPhone SE 2022, looks just like the iPhone 6 from 2014. Even has the same single camera, and the same low resolution LCD display from 2014. It’s amazing that Apple still sells that thing and even passes it off as new. This only proves how gullible Apple users really are. Apple users will believe anything that Apple tells them. I guess that is why the word sheep is associated with Apple users.
I have seen them, I even own the Z Fold 3, which is the best 2 in 1 device on the planet. It’s a device that Apple cannot make, ever! Especially since Apple’s app store, and iOS can’t support a device that is both a smartphone and a tablet in one physical device. You will be waiting till kingdom come before Apple would ever make a 2 in 1 foldable.
Shipped ? Does it mean it is sold ?
Shipped. They’ve been caught saying sold when they meant shipped to look better. Unlikely to make the opposite mistake.
That is a shockingly low number. For context, Apple sold between 230-240M iPhones in the same timeframe, while Google sold around 12M Pixels.
Samsung is saying they SHIPPED, not sold, less than 10M of all foldable models across the entire year. Apple SOLD around 10M iPhones every *two weeks* on average!
I’m sure this has a lot to do with the foldables being mostly meh but expensive Android phones that have exactly one distinguishing trick (folding). Good thing Sammy doesn’t rely on its premium phone sales for survival is all I can say.
You do know that Samsung makes around 45 different smartphone models every year. Plus Samsung sells the most number of smartphones each year, even more than Apple. Samsung sells over 300 million each year.
These are foldable smartphones like the Z Fold 3, and Z Flip 3. Plus Samsung had a sale on their foldable’s recently. I own the Z Fold 3, and it’s a great smartphone/tablet. Especially since it’s one of the only few 2 in 1 device’s being sold in the world.