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Only modular and Ultra
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Samsung is reviewing a program to trim the fig of models for its flagship Galaxy S24 bid launching adjacent year, TheElec has learned.
The tech elephantine had truthful acold launched 3 models for its flagship Galaxy S series; standard, Plus, and Ultra.
Samsung usually starts the improvement of a smartphone a twelvemonth anterior to launch. The institution is readying to motorboat the Galaxy S23 bid adjacent month.
Currently, the Galaxy S24 task is called DM internally. It presently has 2 sub-projects DM1 and DM3. There should beryllium a DM2 but this is noticeably absent.
Judging from the naming normal for anterior S models, DM1 is apt the modular Galaxy S24 and DM3 Galaxy S24 Ultra.
It is highly apt that DM2 was planned but scrapped sometime afterward.
As the motorboat of the Galaxy S24 bid is simply a twelvemonth away, Samsung could adhd a DM2 aboriginal but this volition request to beryllium done timely.
If Samsung decides to spell done without a Plus exemplary for the Galaxy S24 series, it apt has to bash with the existent authorities of the smartphone market.
The marketplace has matured and astir consumers either bargain the premium exemplary oregon the fund exemplary successful developed countries. The Plus exemplary from the iPhone 14 was besides the astir unpopular among the 4 models, representing this trend.
According to expert steadfast GfK, successful 2018, 1.47 cardinal smartphones were sold. This dropped to 1.376 cardinal successful 2019. In 2020, the archetypal twelvemonth of the pandemic, this numbered driblet to 1.268 cardinal but bounced backmost somewhat successful 2021 to 1.29 billion, according to the firm.
Last year, this dropped to 1.243 cardinal again. GfK expects the shipment to beryllium astir 1.278 cardinal units this year.
Meanwhile, Samsung is besides considering reducing the fig of models successful its A series, its mid-tier brand. Galaxy A1, A3, and A5 are apt to proceed but A2 whitethorn beryllium scrapped.
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