Seoul April 7 (IANS) The combined sales of Samsung Electronics new flagship Galaxy S8 series which will officially hit the shelves later this month are expected to surpass the 40-million-unit-mark industry data showed on Friday.
South Korea s brokerage houses estimated the sales of the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus to be around 43-60 million units Yonhap news agency reported.
Eugene Investment & Securities Co predicted the highest figure of 60 million while Mirae Asset Daewoo Co expected 51 million units. Samsung Securities Co a financial arm of Samsung forecast 45 million phones being sold overall.
As for the Galaxy S models we can say that a figure around 35 million units can be considered to fall below expectations while that above 45 million is robust said Hwang Min-sung a researcher from Samsung Securities Co.
This year s sales of the Galaxy S8 are not expected to beat the 48 million units posted by the Galaxy S7 last year Hwang added.
Samsung launched S8 in two screen sizes -- the 5.8-inch Galaxy S8 and 6.2-inch Galaxy S8 Plus -- and will be available from April 21.
The device has a bezel-less curved edge infinity display covered with pristine glass and a 12MP rear camera with multi-frame processing and optical image stabilisation. It has an 8MP auto-focus front shooter.
Available in five different colours the device has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 octa-core (2.35GHz quad + 1.7GHz quad) processor. For models that will be available in countries other than the US Samsung has used Exynos octa-core (2.35 GHz quad + 1.9 GHZ quad) processor.
The company has also upped the security feature with iris scanner face recognition and fingerprint scanner -- moved to the back of the device -- to unlock the device.
--IANS
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Samsung expected to sell over 40 mn Galaxy S8 units
