Certainly
an impressive achievement, though less than what Samsung was
forecasting around this time last year. Global smartphone penetration is
after all just 21 %, so Samsung expects the maturing flagship market to
be offset with the exploding low- and mid-range ones, and is
positioning accordingly, with attention paid to tablets as well.
Samsung's boss JK Shin also reminded analysts that flagship demand will
get a boost from the switch to LTE networks as well, and people will be
changing their handsets more often to take advantage of the faster
download speeds. "By 2017," he mentioned, "half of all handset demand will be for LTE-equipped ones".
Samsung also hinted what's in the pipeline going forward, with a specific takeaway about its YOUM
brand of flexible displays with plastic substrate. Surprisingly, the
company divides its YOUM panels in "curved", "bended" and... wait for
it... "foldable" ones.
Yep, as you see in the timeline it presented to investors above, the Galaxy Round
is somewhat of a trailblazer for the "curved" concept here, but Samsung
is planning to also introduce phones with "bended" screens next year,
while "foldable" display gear is scheduled to arrive in 2015. There's
one little hurdle between the bendable and foldable sections, though,
that Samsung has marked as "Technology barriers" on the timeline, but we
cross fingers those get overcome in a year or two, and we receive
something akin to Samsung's concept video below.
source: ZDNet Korea & SamsungHub
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