News - Samsung Galaxy S4 sells over 10 million, HTC One sells 5 million

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We also hear that a HTC One 'Google Edition' is "imminent".

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[Brewster0101]

Between the S4 and HTC One, thats 15 million high end Android phones in 30 days... Apple stands no chance of catching up with Android or Samsung. What a surprise they pulled out the lawyers.

[shaithis]

They don't need to sell as many as they add an extra £200 per device and penny-pinch on the cheapest Chinese labour possible......

Samsung are the new Apple by the looks of things. Having used the S4 and One, the One is by far the better phone (IMO at least!).....samsung selling twice as many in half the time goes to show that brand perception is king.

[AETAaAS]

Part of it could be brand, but if I had to choose, I'd go S4 since microSD and swappable battery are important to me since I tend to record and watch a lot of media on my phone and I am not alone in this. I also use quite a bit of the Samsung software like the notification toggles, S Memo and I really like their implementation of their music player.

The HTC One has a brilliant build and looks baller as all hell. But HTC was plagued by supply issues at the start and they simply don't have the manufacturing heft of Samsung, so 5 million units is still very good going.

[3dcandy]

+1 on microsd and removeable battery, Samsung are bucking the trends there and it shows in the sales figures as people actually want these!

[Zerox]

I bet a massive marketing budget also has something to so with the higher sales figures. That being said I am glad that the HTC One has sold so well, it really is a nice phone.

Now I really hope that HTC does the right thing and releases the source code for the stock android build/ allows existing owners to choose so that I can wave goodbye to sense and the other bloat.

[Smudger]

Now I really hope that HTC does the right thing and releases the source code for the stock android build/ allows existing owners to choose so that I can wave goodbye to sense and the other bloat.

You may well get your wish...

http://androidheadlines.com/2013/05/...nterested.html

[Smudger]

+1 on microsd and removeable battery, Samsung are bucking the trends there and it shows in the sales figures as people actually want these!

I doubt these are major concerns for the average user. For techy users, yes. But I don't think normal people care about much beyond 'What colour is it?' 'Is it fashionable' and 'How many memories has it got'...

[3dcandy]

I doubt these are major concerns for the average user. For techy users, yes. But I don't think normal people care about much beyond 'What colour is it?' 'Is it fashionable' and 'How many memories has it got'...

I think you'll be surprised...also as I've said in other threads here, sales people are not HTC fans in the uk, and they actively push handsets with removeable batteries over non because of issues from Apple and HTC phones in that regard. I've been told it 3 or 4 times so far this year that HTC suffer battery issues sometimes and it then takes 6 weeks to get them fixed...

[TooNice]

Between the S4 and HTC One, thats 15 million high end Android phones in 30 days... Apple stands no chance of catching up with Android or Samsung. What a surprise they pulled out the lawyers.

The drama is not restricted to Apple vs the World. HTC doesn't exactly see eyes to eyes with Samsung.

I doubt that it is Apple's goal to *catch up* with Android. They certainly want to keep a sufficiently large slice of users so not as become irrelevant in the market place and keep the apps developers, and even if they were to one day follow Nokia's lead, I doubt it will be any time soon.

As to the Galaxy vs iPhone, the jury's still out sales wise. The two spend as much time overtaking each other as they do catching up to each other. I only have 2 figures so far for the iPhone 5. It sold 5M on opening week-end (which happened towards the end of Q3 12), but "only" ended up selling 27.4M in Q4 12 (just over 9.1M per month on average then). Other figures I've found combined the sales of the 5 and 4S so wouldn't be fair if we are only comparing the flagship models. The S4 sold 10M in about a month. So a little more than Apple's monthly average in Q4 but it's still just the first month of sale. If sales of the S4 doesn't slow down, or even accelerates, then sure it can still catch up/overtake as iPhone 5. But if they slow down roughly at the same pace, then a Galaxy sales victory is not guaranteed. Well, it's a bit of a pain to compare sales of phones with around 6 months release date differences between them. Not that it really matters.

[aidanjt]

I doubt these are major concerns for the average user. For techy users, yes. But I don't think normal people care about much beyond 'What colour is it?' 'Is it fashionable' and 'How many memories has it got'...

My entirely non-techy Father and Uncle would view a lack of µSD card and self-replaceable battery as a huge deal-breaker.

[shaithis]

People need to embrace the future....who needs SD card slots when we have clouds?

[HalloweenJack]

that's good figures from HTC - seems the one is doing better than the one x by alot

[3dcandy]

People need to embrace the future....who needs SD card slots when we have clouds?

And for when you have no service at all? The coverage and infrastructure is not good enough everywhere yet for everybody. I was out the other day and was laughing at all the people scratching their heads as they had no service...

[Brewster0101]

And for when you have no service at all? The coverage and infrastructure is not good enough everywhere yet for everybody. I was out the other day and was laughing at all the people scratching their heads as they had no service...

I surpose the answer to that is - put it away and look at the world around you and enjoy ... until you can get signal back of course.

[Flash477]

Well you need the SD slot on the S4 as over 8GB of the storage is taken up by the OS