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Samsung Securities says Samsung phones are pants

by on24 September 2014



Lost appeal

Samsung Securities, the Korean conglomerate’s investment arm, now says Samsung’s own phones aren’t that good.

A Samsung Securities analyst penned a note saying that Samsung smartphones have “lost appeal” and are losing ground to Chinese manufacturers in the low end and Apple’s new iPhones in the high end.

Samsung has seen better days. Earlier this week the company slashed its profit estimated from 5.7 trillion won to 4.7 trillion won. Oddly enough, Fudzilla Securities reports the average size of Samsung phones has gone up from 4.7 inches to 5.7 inches over the last five quarters, so you can probably see where we are going with this.

In the note, Samsung Securities described Chinese phones as “solid” performers and said iPhone 6 pre-orders were “unexpectedly” strong.

After all this years, Samsung finally seems to be getting it. Slapping bigger screens on plasticky phones simply does not work in this day and age. To be fair the company launched its first metal Alpha handset a couple of months ago, but it will take a while before we see whether its overall design direction will change.

For some reason the company still insists on defacing Android with its TouchWiz skins, which were never very popular.

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