14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung’s product plans change from one day to another, as the company has reportedly decided to push back the launch of the Galaxy S10 from January to February.
This happens after the South Koreans originally decided moved the unveiling of its next Galaxy S flagship to the first month of 2019 in an attempt to compensate for the slow sales of the current models.
According to reports that are yet to be confirmed, Samsung now wants to bring its new foldable phone to the market before the S10, despite the original plan that scheduled launches to take place exactly the other way around.
This means there’s a good chance the foldable phone would see daylight at CES 2019 in Las Vegas in January, while the Galaxy S10 would go live just ahead of the MWC show in Barcelona a month later.
Three S10 configurations
What’s important to know, however, is that the foldable phone would only be sold in limited numbers, with Samsung planning to build between 300,000 and 500,000 units. Many of them could be reserved during the pre-order program, which should help Samsung make sure that the two new devices going live in early 2019 do not cannibalize each other.
Also interesting is that the Galaxy S10, which itself is expected to be a major launch given that it marks the 10th anniversary model of this particular flagship product, could include a new configuration as well. Rumor has it that Samsung is working on a smaller version as well that could help expand the Galaxy S flagship in a way that appears to be similar with Apple is planning to do with this year’s iPhone generation.
Three different iPhone models would launch this year with screen sizes between 5.8- and 6.5-inches. Samsung could thus bring to the market three Galaxy S10 models, though their specifications are not yet known.