A recent report emanating from South Korea hints that global tech powerhouse, Samsung, may be unable to the 300 million thresholds for sales of its varied phone products this year, after 9 straight years of consistently massive sales globally. According to the South Korean report, it is estimated that the manufacturer will likely achieve about 270 million phones shipped out this year.

Although the report (via) did not highlight the possible causes for this massive decline in exports, the ravaging coronavirus pandemic tagged COVID-19 may have contributed substantially to its inability to meet its 9-year record.

At the end of the third quarter of 2020, Samsung confirmed that it had exported about 189 million units, which is still an appreciable figure when this year is put in perspective, due to the pandemic and other factors that significantly altered its forecasts.

According to recent updates by the South Korean tech giant, it has set a goal of eclipsing 307 million units in 2021 by expanding its mid-range and low-end 5G smartphone lineup and promoting the ever-widening segment of foldable models.

Of the projected 307 million units slated for 2021, about 287 million units, that is, about 93%, are going to be smartphones, while the remaining 7% (about 20 million units) would likely be from its feature phones stable. It is also expected that, of these 287 million projected exports of Samsung smartphones, 50 million are likely going to be flagship models.

Recently, Samsung has been making some decent inroads into the European market with a high possibility of nicking a few 5G supply contracts with some European mobile telecom operators. This was in addition to its successes in the American market, even in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The picture of Galaxy Note III has been leaked, the picture were taken from Samsung Mobile’s Testing center.

The photos are circulating these days is a bit blurry and not having clear details. But from first glance, the Galaxy Note III design lines remain similar to the Galaxy S4, the only difference is in the size.

According to rumors, the Samsung Galaxy Note III has a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED full HD 1080p display, POwered by the latest Exynos Octa 5 processor or a Snapdragon 800, and sports with 3GB of RAM, running Android 4.3 Jelly bean  operating system and packs with 13 megapixel camera.

The device is expected to be introduced to the public the first time at the IFA 2013 event in Berlin next September.

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The one of larger phone maker, Samsung, has a planning to built their new smartphone device, but their new smartphone is totally new than previous products. And now, we have a leaked picture of Samsung’s prototype smartphone device from @evleaks.

The new Samsung prototype smartphone device ha similar design with  Nokia Lumia smartphone. But there is some crucials different suchs as a bigger home button and has more boxes shape design.

This leaked picture it’s seems not the final design. Samsung likely will continue to improve the design of a prototype mobile phone. This prototype was expected to be a new line of smartphones from Samsung that use Tizen OS.

Hopefully Samsung will not be hampered by issues related to patent a design similar to the Nokia Lumia. Moreover, they have a long history of disputes related to patents.

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The high-end Samsung Android smartphone typically uses Super AMOLED screen, since the Galaxy S and the first Galaxy Note lineup. But it seems that it will change their screen technology on the Galaxy Note 3.

The new 6.3 inches Galaxy Note 3 smartphone will use LCD screens rather than AMOLED screen, this technology will also embed on Galaxy Note 8.0 and Galaxy Note 10.1. Since LCD is said to enhance the better experience of using the stylus S-Pen.

According to sources, Samsung has invested their money worth $130 million USD to the Japanese electronics giant, Sharp, IGZO display technology that its long-awaited many people, as it provides a bright display and has a high density, yet power efficient and slim size display for Samsung Galaxy lineup.

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Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone is the one of popular smartphone from Samsung, and now those phone has several color to choose, including the purple edition that was exposed recently.

The new purple color edition of Galaxy S III is exposed through Sprint website, and according to those website, this Galaxy S III purple edition will be available on the market on April 12th this year.

This purple Galaxy S III landed on the U.S. market, must also in the worldwide market. And now Galaxy S III has 7 variety of including blue pebble, white marble, garnet red, sapphire black, titanium gray, amber brown six and enchanting purple, what kind of color do you want?

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