iPhone 5S and Galaxy S5, Where Bestsellers?

iPhone 5S and Galaxy S5, Where Bestsellers?

Apple and Samsung smart phones are always competing bearing the title of the best selling products in the premium segment. Currently, Apple iPhone 5s and rely on Samsung Galaxy S5 rely.

A Counterpoint market research agency noted, sales of iPhone 5s is still larger than the Galaxy S5. Counterpoint The study was conducted in 35 countries.

Within eight months from September 2013 until May 2014, Counterpoint noting Apple sold 7 million units of iPhone 5s. While the Galaxy S5 sold since the end of March 2014 has sold 5 million units by May 2014.

Counterpoint Galaxy S5 predicts sales will not be for the Galaxy S4, which was launched in 2013 Counterpoint analyst based in Seoul, Tom Kang said sales of the Galaxy S5 is still about 5 million units in June 2014.

He continued, one of the reasons the Galaxy S5 was not well received by the market is a plastic material used in the body.

"They (Samsung) should move forward and leave what has failed and focus on the next product," said Kang.

Seeing this research Counterpoint, Samsung reluctant to comment or disclose sales figures S5 Galaxy, although a Samsung executive said that this new phone penjuaalan outperform its predecessor.

"We will strengthen the competitiveness of our products to strengthen the reputation of a premium brand, strengthen the product line, and the latest technology," Samsung wrote in a statement to Reuters.

To the research firm Canalys shows that Samsung's market share in the first quarter of 2014 fell to 18 percent from 20 percent in the same period last year. Meanwhile, manufacturers from China like Xiaomi and Lenovo recorded an increase in sales.