Galaxy S9/S9+ sales were reportedly poor in the second quarter

Last updated: July 20th, 2018 at 15:27 UTC+01:00

Initial reports about the Galaxy S9/S9+ sales have been mostly positive, but things seem to take inverse substantially in the terminal quarter. There has been a growing number of reports in the last couple of months about the sluggish sales of the latest Galaxy flagship smartphones. Fifty-fifty the company's Q2 earnings guidance is hinting at a slowdown in the Milky way S9 sales.

A new written report from Samsung'southward home country is joining the chorus now. According to a report in The Bell, the Galaxy S9 sales in the second quarter were less than what Samsung sold in the first quarter of 2018. The Korean visitor reportedly sold nine million units of Galaxy S9/S9+ in Q2 2018, down from the 10.two million units information technology sold in the first quarter. Even the combined sales of the offset two quarters dropped from 21.two 1000000 units of Galaxy S8 in 2017 to 19.2 million units of Galaxy S9 this yr. It appears Samsung's aggressive marketing didn't have much of an impact in disarming customers to buy the meridian-end Milky way models.

Offset time in the history of the Galaxy S series

This is apparently the outset time in the history of the Galaxy S series that Q2 sales are lower than the Q1 numbers. It is pertinent to point here that the S9 duo was available for purchase simply for a couple of weeks in the first quarter equally they went on sale only in mid-March. Yet, if the pre-bookings and two weeks of sales in Q1 are indeed higher than the three-month sales in Q2, and then it points to an acute underperformance by the latest Galaxy flagship devices.

The report also says that Samsung is launching the Milky way Note 9 a few weeks earlier than the Note 8 to counter the sluggish S9 series sales. An early Annotation nine release volition also help Samsung to snatch away few customers earlier the latest iPhones hit the market place sometime in September.