Update (12/15/19 @ 9:30 AM ET): A Samsung spokesperson says the Galaxy Fold has yet to pass 1 million sales.
Galaxy Fold has finally turned into Galaxy Sold. The Galaxy Fold officially went on sale in September, months later than originally planned due to numerous devices, including the first review unit, breaking in reviewers’ hands. Samsung canceled its original launch plans and went back to the drawing board, strengthening the phone’s design and revising parts of it to make it less prone to breakage.
Samsung’s first folding phone may have been fraught with a stumbled launch, reliability woes, and a nearly UGX 7.3 million ($2,000) price tag, but that hasn’t stopped the company from finding a million people to buy the Galaxy Fold, according to Samsung Electronic’s president Young Sohn.
This stat was revealed by Sohn onstage at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in Berlin, stating that “there’s a million people that want to use this product at $2,000 each.” He then followed up to clarify that the company claims to have sold 1 million units of the Fold.
It should be noted that One million sales isn’t very much compared to the tens of millions of phones that Samsung and Apple move each quarter, but for a device that’s this expensive, experimental and this unproven, it’s surprising nonetheless. Plenty of smaller manufacturers struggle to sell a fraction of that many phones even with much lower prices
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You can watch the interview with Sohn below where they asked about the Galaxy Fold
Other folding phones, such as Huawei’s Mate X, also saw delays in shipping, likely due to concerns about durability and longevity. We won’t see the Mate X soon due to lack of Google Apps after the famous Trump Ban. But that hasn’t stopped others from jumping into the fray, including Motorola, which is planning to release its new folding Razr in January to compete with the Galaxy Fold.
