Galaxy z fold
Samsung is, along with Motorola and Huawei, the only manufacturers that have entered the folding smartphone sector, a sector that for another year has been dominated by the Korean company Samsung. According to CounterPoint Research, of the 2.8 million smartphones shipped in 2020, 2,04 million are from Samsung.
This represents 73% of the total, almost 3 out of every 4 phones, of all folding smartphones that have reached the market during 2020, repositioning Samsung as the market leader and thus continuing the growth of this new smartphone model that, in a few years, it will be the norm.
Throughout this year, Samsung has launched 3 foldable smartphone models: Galaxy Z Flip, Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Galaxy Z Fold 2. But what capacity for growth does the market have?
The same CounterPoint Research report points out that by 2022, the number of smartphones that reach the market will be 17 million. Because Samsung has led the market for this type of device, it has a privileged position to continue dominating the market, since it is also the manufacturer of the screen, one of the most difficult factors to achieve along with the hinge.
Huawei, its most direct rival Huawei, has not come to market the Mate X outside of China, so it has lost the opportunity to publicize its technology to launch this type of terminals to the market and, even if it had done so, very little It would have served Huawei after the Trump administration event.
The latest rumors related to the range of folding smartphones from Samsung, suggest that throughout 2021 it will launch 4 models to the market, one of them being a cheaper version of the Galaxy Z Fold, a model that since it arrived on the market has not it has never dropped below 2000 euros.
