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Counterpoint: Samsung to sell 50 million Galaxy S6’s, won’t match the iPhone though
July 14, 2025
TheGalaxy S6may beone of the best Android smartphones of the yearbut Samsung is still reportedly struggling to outsell theApple iPhone 6andApple iPhone 6 Plus. This follows on from another report that suggested theGalaxy S6 has failed to match Samsung’s expectations in Korea,although another report suggested thatthe Galaxy S6 Edge was exceeding expectations.
According to new figures from data tracker Counterpoint Technology Market Research, Samsung shipped ten million devices to partners in the three weeks after the handsets launched on April 10, with six million of these being sold to customers. These sales figures were enough todouble the sales of the Galaxy S5in the same period but not enough to match the performance of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus during April.
A Samsung spokeswoman told theWallStreetJournalthat the two flagship devices “are well accepted in the market and sustain the high demand since their market launches” before adding that the company was ramping up production of the Galaxy S6 Edge to “support further growth“.
Samsung told its investors earlier this year that it expected to sell three Galaxy S6 devices for each S6 Edge it sold but theGalaxy S6 Edgehas been received better than its sibling in the market, resulting indemand exceeding the supply. As a result, Samsung already confirmed it was opening athird manufacturing plant to increase production of the Galaxy S6 Edgeand a report suggested the company planned totriple production of the Galaxy S6 Edge.
Increased supply and availability would certainly increaseoverall sales of the Galaxy S6 Edgebut thehigh price of both the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edgecould also be a stumbling block for would-be owners ofSamsung’s two flagships. Neither Apple nor Samsung report sales of individual smartphones but this quarter’s financials will certainly reveal whether the two flagships were enough for Samsung torevert its mobile decline.
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Maybe if Samsung were to make theGalaxy S6 Edge Iron Man Editionwidely available and releaseother Avengers-themed Galaxy S6 smartphones, it would be enough to finally topple Apple.
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