The year’s third quarter hasn’t concluded yet, and while Samsung can reasonably hope for both a strong start to Galaxy Note 8 global sales and continued Galaxy S8 success, heightened flagship smartphone competition makes any specific projection tricky to get just right.
But whether the chaebol will manage to ship 11 million Note 8 units, 12, 10 or considerably less, one thing’s for sure – overall company profits are set to go through the roof during 2017’s closing three months.
Samsung already posted an all-time quarterly record of KRW 14.07 trillion ($12.3 billion) between April and June, following a nearly record-breaking haul of 9.9 trillion won ($8.8 billion US dollars) for the January – March 2017 window.
