Samsung sees demand for tablets decline

Samsung sees the demand for tablets in Western countries decline. That says the manufacturer’s quarterly results. The sales of smartphones took us quite light. How many smartphones and tablets Samsung sells, remains unclear.

Samsung makes no exact figures are known from his sales, but shows only trends. The sale of tablets is increasing in developing countries, but demand is decreasing in Western countries. The smartphone arm of Samsung is still growing, but the manufacturer earns less per unit because the spend more money on retail channels, introductions, and research and development.

Last quarter, Samsung including the Galaxy S4, and announced many new smartphones and tablets, including the Galaxy S4 Mini, S4 Zoom, S4 Active and the Galaxy Tab 3 series. Samsung posted converted approximately 5 billion euro profit on a turnover of only 39 billion euros.

Although Samsung itself, not sales figures, will publish, many analysts estimates. They think that the sales not only by the Galaxy S4, but also by the falling price of the Galaxy S III, which now has around 375 euro cost, be driven. The estimates on total sales vary, from 70 million sold smartphones to about 76 million.

Analysts sit there on the mobile market, often far off with estimates. As proved last week that of the dozens of analysts this week estimated had done of iPhone sell: one were all the estimates far too low. With the iPad sales-that was exactly the vice versa: on one after they were all much too high, and some estimate the sell even nearly half higher than the number that Apple eventually announced. About Samsung, says IDC, for example, that there 72,4 million smartphones in the last quarter, shipped, while Strategy Analytics, a shipment of 76 million units claims and TrendForce the 71 million delivered smartphones.

With this wide margin of error is hard to imagine that other manufacturers have the right numbers estimate. In addition, there are large differences in the statements of the sales of other manufacturers than Apple and Samsung: the number three from last quarter, Huawei, comes with one analyst from 14 million sold smartphones, while the other keeps a number of under 10 million.

The trends are the same: practically all analysts note that KS is a growing and that is probably because models like the Nexus 4 and the cheaper L-series of the manufacturer. In addition, Chinese manufacturers like Lenovo and Coolpad in the elevator by good sales in the domestic market. ZTE is also in the top 5. In the west well-known manufacturers such as Nokia, HTC, Sony and BlackBerry falling, many analysts under the category of ‘other’.