Samsung Galaxy S6: 10 million copies sold in a month – ZDNet France

This is not a scoop, Samsung plays very big with the launch of its new high-end
 range, both Galaxy S6. Equation data is known: the group is harassed
  in the entry level by Chinese manufacturers and lost the war
 upscale facing a conqueror iPhone that has sold more than
 74 million units in the final quarter, the same volume as
 Samsung (-11.5 million over one year) with yet tens of
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The result, the giant poster profits down quarter after quarter. Suffice to say that many hopes were placed in the flagship. But initial results appear mixed. 10 million copies were sold in 29 days, the company said. If the number is more than respectable, it is below the start of Galaxy S4 and S5. This is not good news. Especially since it is in sales to distributors, not direct sales.

In fact, the S4 and S5 had
 respectively reached this threshold in 25 days
 and 27 days. It is clear that Samsung’s ambitions were greater, especially with two variants available. And we’re not even talking about the iPhone 6, passed 10 million units in three days at distributors.

According to the Korea Times,
  that earns about Samsung executives, the manufacturer would
 even for now reason for optimism. “The Galaxy S6
  and S6 Edge elicit positive reactions. I do not doubt that they
 will be the best selling Galaxy series “would thus declared a frame
  during a meeting with the presidents of Samsung. Also at the summit meeting at company headquarters in
 Seoul, part of Samsung announced that sales could well
 to exceed 70 million units.

Recall that in the first quarter, Apple sold 61.2 million worldwide iPhone. It is however goods unless the 74.4 million the previous quarter and that allowed Apple to dethrone Samsung.

  Accordingly, in the first quarter 2015, the Korean grabs
 again the first step of world ranking of manufacturers
  Smartphones estimated Strategy Analytics.

On
  the period, Samsung has elapsed him worldwide of 83.2 million
 smartphones, more so than the iPhone. But the manufacturer has reason
 to have the modest victory. Certainly it is again first, but his
 market share within a year plummeted 31% to 24%. In addition, during the same
 period of 2014, 89 million smartphones were delivered by
 Korean.

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