Samsung warns investors of first holiday quarter profit decline since 2011

Samsung Electronics has released "preliminary earnings guidance" for the December quarter, calling for revenues of around 52T KRW ($47B) and operating profits of about 5.2T KRW ($4.73B), a profit decline of 37 percent compared to the year-ago quarter — its first such decline for the holiday period since 2011.

Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 100

Samsung ad challenges Apple's iPhone 5s to take 'ice bucket challenge'

In a short commercial posted Friday, South Korean electronics giant Samsung subjected its water-resistant Galaxy S5 smartphone to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which the handset's S-Voice personal digital assistant called "freezing" before nominating Apple's iPhone 5s and other competitors to do the same.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 163

Samsung earnings disappoint as company blames competition in smartphone space

While Apple continues to see strong growth with its hot-selling lineup of smartphones, rival Samsung reported lower-than-expected earnings on Thursday, posting its smallest profit in two years.

Neil Hughes 11 years ago 103

Apple's iPhone 5c boasts most available advertised memory, Samsung Galaxy S4 declared 'biggest memory hog'

While many smartphones advertise 16 gigabytes of capacity, none of them actually offer that much storage to the end user. But both Apple's iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s offer among the most advertised space out of the box, while Samsung's Galaxy S4 comes in last place.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 86

Samsung rumored to follow Apple's lead, split Galaxy S5 lineup into metal, plastic models

The next flagship smartphone from South Korean manufacturer Samsung will reportedly be offered in two versions — a metal-clad premium edition and a cheaper model sporting a plastic case.

Shane Cole 12 years ago 147

Galaxy Note 3 phablet accounts for just 1/10 of Samsung's 2013 premium phone sales

Samsung has always been cagy about releasing data on the devices it sells, but it just provided a new clue that indicates "phablet" models are not nearly as popular as is commonly believed, again explaining why Apple hasn't been in a rush to sell a big screen iPhone.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 136

Samsung tempers expectations for a 64-bit Android answer to Apple's A7

Samsung sought to assuage its investors' concerns about increasingly intense competition with Apple and the cooling market for premium Android smartphones, outlining a specs race that described a future with 64-bit Exynos chips, super high resolution mobile displays and a new focus on software.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 172

Only one third of Samsung's smartphone sales are in the class of Apple's iPhone

In a meeting with its concerned investors on Wednesday, the head of Samsung Mobile revealed numbers illustrating that the company sold fewer high end smartphones than Apple this year, and that only about a third of the company's total "smartphone" shipments are of a class really comparable to the iPhone.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 119

Samsung ad gets applause for copying Apple's iPhone spot from 2007

Critics have broadly panned Samsung's initial efforts to deliver a Galaxy Gear "smart watch," but there's accolades for the product's commercial, which is closely patterned after an ad Apple commissioned at the introduction of the original iPhone in 2007.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 100

Samsung hopes to restore confidence with its concerned investors at strategy meeting

Samsung is organizing a "strategic conference" with 400 investors and analysts, in order to "fight a gnawing suspicion that its heyday may have come and gone."

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 45

Apple, Inc. iPad is obliterating Samsung, Google's Android in tablet profits

While market research firms publicly report that Apple's iPad is "losing market share" in tablet shipments, their data also says something else: Apple continues to obliterate Samsung, Google's Android, Microsoft, Amazon and the rest of the industry in tablet profits.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 146

Fllu offers cash to "organically" promote Samsung's push for proprietary Android apps

Users contributing Android bug reports to the StackOverflow developer community were offered cash in exchange for "organically" directing interest to a promotion aimed at creating Android apps with features that only work on certain Samsung phones.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 35

Galaxy S 4 on steroids: Samsung caught doping in benchmarks

Tipped off by a report from hacker in Luxembourg that accused Samsung of increasing the clock speed of its Android-based Galaxy S 4 specifically, and only, when running certain benchmarks, AnandTech investigated and confirmed that it is indeed cheating to win in performance tests, by design.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 153

New Samsung ad knocks iPhone language limitations, features goats

Samsung is taking the battle to Apple in Iceland, knocking the iPhone for its language limitations in a curious new ad that features balaclavas, goats, and lots of apples.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 90

Apple's iPhone 5 estimated to have sold more than 2X faster at launch than Galaxy S4

Following a report that Samsung has shipped 20 million units of their new Galaxy S4 smartphone, one analyst has estimated that it took Apple less than half as much time to ship the same amount of iPhone 5 units.

Michael Harper 12 years ago 27

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