Skip to main content

Samsung Needs To Make The S10 Look Different

Image result for s10
While Apple is hard at work developing their top of the line 
, next gen iPhones, Samsung is also working on a fitting reply. But of late the Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones haven't been having the best of days. With the S9 performing poorly when it comes to sales, So much so that the S9, a 3 month old phone was overtaken in sales by Apple's iPhone 8, an 8 month old device that features a design straight out of 2014. You could argue that the S9's slow sales could be attributed to the fact that the S9 is pretty much an S8 with very few changes. Going by Apple's naming scheme the S9 is an S8s.

Design Sells

Image result for S9
While a design doesn't really affect the functionality of a phone, designs play a crucial role when it comets sales. Looking at Apple's past sales it's easy to see that Apple has had huge spikes in sales when they came out with a new design especially in 2014, when they came out with the iPhone 6 design. A design refresh really gets the crowds going. Even with the iPhone X, The new design and features meant that the phone sold like hotcakes despite it's $1000 price-tag.

Samsung's Conundrum

So it seems that a design refresh might be the solution to all of Samsung's sales woes. But being the pioneers of the infinity display and them keeping around the headphone jack, It's safe to say that they've shrunk the bottom bezel as much as it's going to shrink. You see Samsung has worked themselves into a corner. Keeping the headphone jack around won't let them kill off the bottom bezel on the phone without making the phone ungainly thick, As the display has to wrap around onto itself as in the iPhone X. Adopting a notch would be a good way to implement a design change but Samsung with their ads have shown that they're against the notch going so far as to mock Apple for the notch. It would be hypocritical for Samsung to adopt a notch but Google did it with the headphone jack. Besides the blow back from Samsung adopting a notch would be huge. Right now the S9 is the way to go for someone who doesn't want a notch on their phones and Samsung can't really afford to enrage any part of it's userbase as it stands. The remaining way ( Which I can think of anyway) is a motorised approach kind of like what the Oppo Find X did ( The thoughts of which you can read here). It seems highly unlikely that Samsung would go for a motorised approach as these phones will be bought by way more people than when compared to the Vivo Nex or the Find X . The failure rates for motorised selfie cameras are way too high. So Samsung seems to be in a fix and it will be interesting to see what they cook up with the S10.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What Is KaiOS? The Android Competitor You've Never Heard Of

When you think of the smartphone OS wars, we have two warring factions, Android and iOS. For about 5 years this was the way it's been. But in the distant past there were three smartphone Operating Systems. Android, iOS and Windows. The three way battle for OS supremacy raged on and before long the triopoly became a duopoly. With Windows phone being more or less dead the two major Operating systems only had each other to worry about for the longest time. Now the incumbents have a new kid on the block to worry about , KaiOS. But wait if KaiOS is so great how come no ones ever heard of it before? But First Some Background KaiOS is built on the ashes of the Firefox OS , For phones that aren't necessarily smart. You remember those old phones that you used to rock back in 2009? Yeah phones like those. The aim of KaiOS is to bring down the features of a smartphone down to a feature phone. So for that very same reason Kai...
16 comments
Read more

Why I Love The iOS Files App

iOS has long been guilty of being terrible with files, You had third party file managers that promised to give you a great files experience. But most of them fell pitifully short, some did almost come close to being good but none came close to the flexibility and power that a file explorer on Android, Windows or MacOS could ever hope to give you.That all changed with the introduction of the files app on iOS 11. Why Bother With A Files App? Apple has been talking about  replacing the PC with an iPad for quite a while now and to truly replace a PC you need a few desktop features on iOS which is primarily a mobile OS. Ask anyone and they'll tell you that the ability to manipulate files is one of the most basic things that you'd expect a computer to do. After all one of the first GUI apps was a file explorer. So it makes sense to bring over the file explorer to iOS. But you just can't port finder over...
3 comments
Read more

How Will The 6.5 Inch iPhone Be Different?

With the iPhone X out of the way we're now starting to focus on the iPhone X+ or whatever it will be called. With the iPhone X they couldn't really afford to come out with two new phones in 2017 as components such as FaceID and the whole manufacturing process was very constrained as it was a brand new design. But a year later Apple seems to have got a handle on things and seeing the great sales of the iPhone X, Apple seems to be ready to spread their wings into the + market. Why Differentiate At All? The iPhone X has been selling really well despite the rumours that state the contrary. A 6.5 inch plus model iPhone can really go a long way in keeping the lineup fresh and exciting. Just look at the Galaxy S8 and S9. Though great phones they lacked they didn't bring anything new and fresh to the table. Apple is in a unique advantageous position to bring something new to the table with the rumoured iPhone X+ .  Since the iPhone 7 people have flocked to the larger v...
Post a Comment
Read more