In fact, the world’s high smartphone vendor could merely be aiming to diversify its foldable portfolio with a brand new state-of-the-art possibility designed particularly with demanding Asian audiences in thoughts. But when the quantity shared by Ice Universe on X is legit, it is onerous to not see a connection between it and Samsung‘s sudden want to do extra within the foldable house this 12 months.
How low is 270,000?
If we’re speaking hamburgers ate in a lifetime, most likely not very low. But when we’re speaking Galaxy Z Fold 6 models offered by Samsung all over the world throughout the handset’s first two weeks of availability, that is fairly dangerous. Granted, this isn’t an official determine confirmed by the corporate, however one thing tells us Ice Universe obtained his info from a dependable supply on the within or at the least a trusted analytics agency.
Apparently, extra numbers have been publicized on the leaker’s Weibo account, together with the Z Flip 6’s 420,000 unit gross sales throughout its personal first 14 days on the worldwide market. That brings Samsung’s two foldable telephones launched (thus far) this 12 months to a grand complete of 690,000 models offered worldwide, which… would not sound nice both.
The Z Fold 6 (left) is reportedly not as fashionable because the Z Fold 5 (proper). | Picture Credit score — PhoneArena
In distinction, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 accounted for a mixed 1 million pre-orders in Korea alone a bit of over a 12 months in the past, and whereas a few of these pre-orders could have been canceled earlier than the gadgets might ship, it is fairly clear that the Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6 are proving significantly much less fashionable than their predecessors.
For his half, Ice Universe is merely labeling the early gross sales of the Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 as “barely decrease than these of the Z5 collection”, which looks as if a little bit of an understatement. The Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5, thoughts you, truly proved much less profitable than the Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4, promoting a mixed 7.3 million models globally in 12 months in comparison with 9 million copies for the Z4 duo.
How excessive can the Galaxy S24 household go?
Whereas Samsung’s foldables are evidently not as fashionable as the corporate would want, its “standard” flagships are literally doing higher than anybody could have anticipated.
With 23.4 million models in seven months, the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Extremely are simply eclipsing the underneath 21 million tally of the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Extremely in an identical timeframe final 12 months. That is a pleasant and wholesome progress of round 12 % for Samsung’s foremost high-end handset trio, and unsurprisingly, the biggest enchancment comes from the Extremely mannequin.
The S24 household is a giant world hit. | Picture Credit score — PhoneArena
The “vanilla” S24, in the meantime, is just barely extra fashionable than the bottom S23, with the S24+ rising by a pretty big proportion however staying relatively irrelevant within the grand scheme of issues. With all of this in thoughts, we’re now questioning if Samsung will attempt to speed up the event of the Galaxy S25 household to launch it a bit of sooner than anticipated and thus cowl (a bit) for the failures of the Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6.
The S24 trio, after all, is unlikely to spice up its gross sales numbers a lot after the iPhone 16 collection launch in a few weeks. Talking of Apple, the iPhone 15 quartet is estimated to have shipped a grand complete of over 140 million copies in 10 months, exceeding its predecessor’s numbers by a tiny however not insignificant 1.8 %.
Adrian, a cell expertise fanatic because the Nokia 3310 period, has been a dynamic presence within the tech journalism area, contributing to Android Authority, Digital Developments, and Pocketnow earlier than becoming a member of PhoneArena in 2018. His experience spans throughout numerous platforms, with a specific fondness for the range of the Android ecosystem. Regardless of the challenges of balancing full-time parenthood together with his work, Adrian’s ardour for tech tendencies, working, and flicks retains him energized. His dedication to mid-range smartphones has led to an eclectic assortment of gadgets, saved from private chapter by his choice for ‘enough’ over ‘overpriced’.
