In South korea today,High demand for the Galaxy Note 4 in
Samsung's home country has completely exhausted
preorder supplies for all major carriers (SK Telecom, KT, LG Uplus),
and has helped reinvigorate a domestic smartphone distribution market that has
been dormant of late.
For SK Telecom, Korea's biggest
network carrier with 50.3 percent market share,
preorder units sold out in 9 hours,
while it took just three days for KT and LG Uplus to sell all of their preorder
supply. All three carriers had set a limited preorder time span, from September
18 to September 25.
Samsung has also expedited the official launch dates of the Galaxy Note 4,
deciding to hold a press conference on September 24 and launch on September 26.
Many industry analysts have speculated that Samsung is hurrying for early entry
in response to Apple's iPhone 6 and
Watch, which garnered significant attention when it was unveiled earlier this
month.
The Samsung
Galaxy Note 4 is the company's latest phablet. Announced earlier
this month at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin, the Note 4 brings about a new metal
frame design while still packing in a stylus. It comes with a 5.7-inch Quad HD
display with a super-sharp resolution of 2,560x1,440-pixels and a 16-megapixel
rear camera. The Korean version of the Note 4 packs an Exynos 5433 octa-core
processor, unlike the global version, which comes with a quad-core Snapdragon
805.
The Galaxy Note 4 has been marked
with a list price of 957,000 Korean Won or $920. This price point is actually
the lowest ever for any of the Galaxy Note
iterations. Last year's Galaxy Note 3
cost 1,067,000 million won or $1,025 at the time of launch.
Korea's smartphone distribution
market will likely see a substantial jump in sales with the launch of the
Galaxy Note 4 and iPhone 6, a sigh of relief for Korean network carriers and
retailers. Phone sales had been dropping
consistently for the past year, in large part because of changes in handset subsidy regulations enforced by the
government.
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