If
you’ve been looking at the Galaxy S6 or the Galaxy S6 with envious
eyes, it may be worth your while not giving into temptation just yet,
because Samsung says it intends to drop the price on its two flagship
Android phones in the near future.
The news comes from Samsung itself, and was part of a statement
released alongside its latest earnings report, in which it shows an
improvement over projections, but admits they didn’t come from sales of
its smartphones. “Despite the launch of the Galaxy S6,” it reads,
“improvements to earnings was quite marginal due to low smartphone
shipments and an increase in marketing expenses.”
This
doesn’t mean it’s not selling any, but it would like to sell more. The
key sentence for bargain hunters is found when Samsung says it wants to
maintain the “sales momentum for its high-end products,” by adjusting
the price of the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge. It doesn’t state how
much this adjustment will be, or really whether it’ll be an increase of a
decrease, but we can’t imagine it’ll be putting the price up even more.
Samsung’s
Galaxy S6 phones are among the most expensive currently on sale, and in
the wake of Motorola and OnePlus’s announcement of equally powerful
phones that cost $200 less than an S6, an “adjustment” in price seems
appropriate.
It’s
timely for another reason. On August 13, Samsung is expected to launch
the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, neither of which will be
cheap. The statement alludes to the arrival of the new phones, stating
it’ll “flexibly adjust the price of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, and
launch a new model with a larger screen.”
The
cost cuts may translate into better deals with networks on the S6, and a
drop in the unconnected, SIM-free model’s price too.
