Seoul: Samsung Electronics on Monday stated it should launch a brand new 5G finances smartphone in South Korea this week to broaden its dominant standing on house turf.
Samsung stated the Galaxy A42 5G smartphone shall be launched right here on Friday with a price ticket of $400, the most cost effective amongst 5G smartphone fashions offered in South Korea.
The A42 5G was already launched in choose markets in Europe and Southeast Asia final yr.
The newest smartphone, outfitted with a 6.6-inch show, comes with a rear quad-camera setup providing a 48MP foremost digicam, 8MP extremely vast lens, 5MP depth sensor and 5MP macro digicam. It additionally has a 20MP selfie digicam on the entrance.
The handset, which packs a 5,000mAh battery, has 4-gigabyte (GB) RAM and 128GB inside storage, which will be expanded up to 1 terabyte through a micro SD card, reviews Yonhap information company.
According to market researcher Counterpoint Research, Samsung was the dominant participant within the South Korean smartphone market final yr with a share of 65 p.c, adopted by Apple Inc. with 20 per cent and LG Electronics Inc. with 13 per cent.
Globally, Samsung hopes it will probably additional broaden its market share with reasonably priced 5G smartphones as its Chinese rival Huawei Technologies Co. is battling US sanctions.
Samsung defended its main standing within the 2020 international smartphone market, however its market share dropped from 20 per cent to 19 per cent as its shipments declined from 296.8 million models to 255.7 million models, Counterpoint Research information confirmed.
The South Korean tech big is predicted to launch extra 5G-supporting fashions within the Galaxy A collection this yr, which is able to embrace the A32, the A52 and the A72.
