Market research company Canalys announced on the 25th that the South Korean company’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S9 series (S9 and S9+), was on sale on March 9. The first month (the first four weeks) of shipments was about 8 million units. Which, the United States market, about 2.8 million shipments, accounting for 35% of the total shipments; Samsung headquarters South Korean market shipments of nearly 1 million.
In terms of the performance of the first month, the S9 series shipments were about the same as the Galaxy S8 series that was on sale in April 2017, but it was less than the Galaxy S7 series that was sold in March 2016 (the first month shipment reached 9 million).
Canalys pointed out that from the point of view that the S9 series has not been significantly upgraded compared to the S8 series, the performance of the S9 series is not bad.
The S7 series is one of Samsung's best-selling Galaxy smartphones. In the first year, shipments reached approximately 48 million units, compared with 41 million for the S8 series. Canalys estimates that the first year shipments of the S9 series can reach approximately Canalyys pointed out that the S9 series had not yet expired for a quarter, and its rival Apple had a disappointing quarterly performance. Canalys estimates that Apple iPhone X in Q18 (January to March). Shipments of less than 14 million units will be less than 29 million units in the previous quarter (October-December 2017).
The Korean media Central Daily reported on April 19th that the survey company Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released a survey report that Samsung Galaxy smartphones were the most popular brand in the United States during Q1 of 2018. Among them, Samsung accounted for 39%, which was much higher than Apple's 31%, followed by LG's 14%. The same situation happened during Q4 2017 (October-December 2017) of iPhone X, which is just the opposite. The share is nearly 40%, while Samsung is about 30%.
CIRP pointed out that the biggest reason for the expansion of Samsung’s US market is the opening of the flagship model Galaxy S9. Apple started selling the new iPhone at the end of last year. Samsung launched the Galaxy S9 earlier this year, and the S9’s time to sell. Compared to the previous generation S8, it took 1 month in advance.