Jul 15 2013, 09:56 PM
Some news which I guess many have read. If you haven't here it is:
HTC One Max as Note 3 competitor
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/7/15/45241...ease-date-rumor
What's interesting is in the discussions in the comments. Someone was calling the >5" market a niche and gave a feasible explanation:
This was a response contrasted to the 216 MILLION smartphones shipped last year:
Just do a quick Google search for Note 2 shipments. All I found were two matching entries: one from Nov 2012 which says that the Note 2 was sold 3M times within the first 30 days globally and 2M additional times the following month (5M in first two months of availability). The second entry was just a forecast that Samsung was targeting 20M units (“could sell 20M times”), published Sep 2012.
It’s July 2013 now and we haven’t heard of any numbers since.
Why doesn’t Samsung post further numbers if they’re that groundbreaking? Because they aren’t IMO.
Smartphone sales from Q4/2012 to Q2/2013 will be likely approx. around 650M (numbers for Q2 aren’t available yet). Even if Samsung manages to sell the Note 2 20M times in 9 months, it’d account for only ~3.08%.
Even if you add Note 1 sales and those of other all other existing phablets, you’ll likely never pass the 5.0% mark.
It’s a niche. Profitable thanks to high margins, yes, but still a niche market.
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So I think the combined sales of XZU, HTC 1 Max, Asus Fonepad Note and Note 3 are likely going to cause a zero sum game, coz really, not EVERYONE wants a large device, although for those who have, they will have extreme difficulty going back to anything smaller
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