Samsung Galaxy Gear Features, Price & Specs: Smartwatch a Disaster; Sells Less than 50K Units
The fact that the mobile phone industry has reach maturity is demonstrated by the disappointing Samsung Galaxy Gear sales results. Retail prices of mobile smartphone has reaching rock bottom around the world this year and the prediction is that high-end smartphone may have reach their maturity stage.
According to Yahoo news, the Samsung galaxy gear Smartwatch launched in Berlin on the 4th reported as the first-ever Smartwatch and the extensive and expensive ad campaigns called this the first step in Smartwatch evolution. The sales figures of 50,000 has made this the technological disaster of the decade. A Samsung executive, David Eun, compared this new technology to a small green tomato meaning that this will evolve into an exciting product may have had his fruits mingled. He must have meant a $300 Lemon judging by the sad results.
Bgr.com reported that the Samsung Smartwatch is on the android platform and is a companion device to be used with all the Samsun Galaxy smartphones and tablets running on the android 4.3 platform. The main objection is the design of the interface, implementation of certain software and limited applications available. Battery life is extremely poor and it is totally reliant on the other Samsung products.
What makes this event surprising is the size and cost of the marketing campaign that preceded the release of this smartphone with the rounded and curved display. This will allow the user to see messages on the display when looking at the phone sideways.
Is the mobile phone industry getting desperate designing high end phones with features that is impressive on paper but without any practical uses.
Brent Kendall, from the wall street journal, said that more bad news for Samsung apart from the multi-million patent dispute settlement to Apple is the possible ruling against Samsung products that have infringed the patent rights from being imported to the USA. Monday the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Judge Lucy Koh must reconsider her 2012 ruling as it contained factual errors.