14 DAY TRIAL // Both Sony Mobile and Samsung Electronics unveiled new Android-based flagship models at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, namely the Xperia Z2 and Galaxy S5, but it seems that Sony’s device will arrive in South Korea first.
The info comes from Korean website Daum, which claims that the brand new Xperia Z2 will land in Samsung’s homeland market before Galaxy S5, most probably sometime before the end of this month.
For those out of the loop, we should say that Samsung has confirmed that Galaxy S5 will be released on April 11, which is more than a month from now.
However, it should also be noted that Samsung launched the Xperia Z1 in South Korea only in January this year, over three months after making the phone official at IFA in Berlin.
At the same time, users might want to know that Sony previously stopped selling its devices in this country back in 2011. However, with the release of two flagships there in only three months, it clearly shows that it takes the market seriously.
The Japanese phone maker will kick off sales of the new flagship all around the world before the end of March, as PhoneArena notes.
Xperia Z2 was announced with a 5.2-inch full HD screen, a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor inside, 3GB of RAM, and a 20.7-megapixel camera on the back.
Galaxy S5, on the other hand, sports a 5.1-inch full HD screen, a 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a 16-megapixel camera.
However, given that South Korea is Samsung’s home turf, it is expected for this company’s new device to sell much better than Sony’s phone would, despite the fact that it will land there at a later date.
Historically, Samsung has managed to attract more users to its Galaxy S devices than Sony did with its Xperia flagships, though this is not a problem for the Japanese vendor.
In fact, the company unveiled only a few weeks back that it was focused on quality at the moment more than it was on volume sales. This is one of the main reasons for which there are no entry-level Xperia phones available for purchase at the moment.
Samsung, on the other hand, has grabbed the most of the Android smartphone segment over the past few years, and it is determined to maintain its top position through designing devices at all price points. Galaxy S5 will certainly help it gain more of the high-end segment.