Samsung's mobile division may be facing its first-ever annual loss because of crazy memory prices Comments
- Anonymous
- vGN
I was wanting to buy the A57 but after they revealed a price increase of almost 50% more, but most features remaining the same as A56 - I then realised that it's not possible for me to compensate their greed with my hard earned money.
- Anonymous
- 7X4
Anonymous, 24 Apr 2026In case you haven't heard, s26 series has outsold s25 series by more than 20% in the thir... moreWell that's gow "Marketing" Work, always outsold X model like damn, do people change their flagship phones every year? 🤣
- Anonymous
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[deleted post]In case you haven't heard, s26 series has outsold s25 series by more than 20% in the third 90 days.
The S Ultra every year is listed among top10 sold phones worldwide. Phone that nowhere is less than $1000. More than 10 million units yearly.
By the way, because of storage/ram price is up, the chinese brands are strongly considering not making Ultra phones anymore after current gen.
Info from DSC on his weibo
- Anonymous
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Benjamin Mileykovski, 24 Apr 2026People buy devices, not company revenue or statsWow, I am horrified ppl read and can't understand.
Zero surprise when even many nations from called " 3rd world" have better schools than USA. Anyway ...
Samsung phone business alone is bigger than entire Xiaomi.
They would need to lose dozens of billions for more than decade to leave phone market.
Much easier to see chinese brands quit.
How hard to understand that?
Ra-Iri, 23 Apr 2026Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions. Pushing AI more th... moreSamsung isn't a big AI player really, they didn't contribute to AI boom that much really
Anonymous, 23 Apr 2026Surely possible when samsung phone business generate more revenue than xiaomi , oppo and vivo ... morePeople buy devices, not company revenue or stats
- Aierlan
- 0CM
[deleted post]How is that causing a loss? Basically you're saying selling phones for a higher profit margin is causing the loss. It is increasing costs that are threatening their profit margins . It's hitting all brands which is why you are seeing the prices of OPPO, Vivo,Honor and Xiaomi phones increasing. In the case of OPPO and Vivo the price increase is large. Xiaomi has managed a smaller increase. Only Huawei has basically not increased prices. The net profit margin for all these brands won't be very high and there is a large increase in the cost of production due to the huge memory prices. Add that to a drop in sales due to higher and it's going to hurt profits. It's amazing Apple has maintained prices in most markets so far. It's no wonder they are selling so well in China with the increase in prices from all Android flagships. Wouldn't be surprised to see them announce a price increase for the 17 series at some point though if they haven't negotiated their memory prices in advance with forward contracts
TheEgoIko, 23 Apr 2026I hope Samsung will face such extreme losses that they quit the smartphone market✌️Unlikely
- Anton .the. papi
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TheEgoIko, 23 Apr 2026I hope Samsung will face such extreme losses that they quit the smartphone market✌️That will never happen since Samsung manufactures practically everything... you know that most of the components in Chinese phones come from Samsung, right?
- jiyen235
- XNA
how are they facing losses with 80% recycled materials? that's just poor management at this point
anyways who cares if the mobile division suffers if their memory division more than makes up for it lol they're just paying each other and all the money stays in samsung's pockets still.
just excuses to hike prices to get even more profits, due to problems made by themselves. Make problems for yourselves and make the consumer suffer. Who doesn't love corporations?
- Ra-Iri
- IW@
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions.
Pushing AI more then posting loss because of AI. What an irony.
- Anonymous
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TheEgoIko, 23 Apr 2026I hope Samsung will face such extreme losses that they quit the smartphone market✌️Surely possible when samsung phone business generate more revenue than xiaomi , oppo and vivo combined.
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- Anonymous
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Gonna get worse
Combo 8Eg6 + 16gb ddr6 + 1TB ufs5.0 may be over $600.
This is already more than entire hardware of 512gb S26.
Samsung oled screens are at least $70.
BoMnof S27 Ultra can easily be $750-800.
- iShip
- 5F7
The days of producing low end phones with their ancient hardware like S20.6 Ultra and selling them as a 1400€ flagship is over.
Samsung Mobile will soon go bankrupt🤩.
- Nameless
- 0xQ
Well, by pushing the AI they themselves contributed to it.
- Dimtons
- 4x2
FatShady, 23 Apr 2026good, hope everyone else is losing as well, greedy bstrdsTo keep shareholders happy, the only losers are customers, who will end up paying higher prices.
- Anonymous
- Ib5
Don't worry. Samsung is rich. Won't die.
