Samsung Will Start Selling Less Smartphones

What can Samsung do to stop their spiralling profits? Their answer, start making less smartphones, and we thoroughly agree.

The launch of the Galaxy S5 did not help their bottom line, and the Korean giant is hoping that the Galaxy Note 4 will be its saving grace in 2014. In the latest quarter, Samsung saw its lowest profits in over two years, so execs are starting to rethink their strategies.

Samsung have committed to changing the R&D cycles in order to design more focused products, and will be building less, but hopefully building those better. We don’t yet know where those cuts are supposed to be made. It wouldn’t be hard to guess that Samsung might want to reduce the number of lower-end devices, of which there seems to be thousands.

We could also be seeing them dropping some of the variants within the flagship range. Devices such as the Galaxy S5 Active and Galaxy K Zoom could be the last of their kind.