Samsung's second-quarter profit is less than the expected but stock price still rise over 5%

[REVIEW] Samsung's second quarter results below expectations, but phone supremacy established and emerging markets on the strong demand for digital products is expected, the market is still optimistic about the performance of the Samsung market outlook.

Samsung today announced second quarter net profit below market expectations, but expected to usher in a higher demand on the market the company's flat panel and mobile phone in the third quarter, Samsung (Samsung Galaxy SIII Back Covers) will continue to maintain the dominance of live global mobile phone manufacturers. Boosted by the above message, the highest increase of Samsung shares after the earnings release was more than 5%.

Samsung today said that emerging markets may stimulate demand for the company's digital home appliances, while under the European economic downturn adversely affected, the TV needs of the markets of developed countries could decline further.

At present, the global smart phone market with annual sales expected to reach $ 219 billion. Investment institutions KTB Asset Management fund manager Lee Jin Woo said: "For Samsung, the third quarter is crucial. The Galaxy S III (Samsung Galaxy SIII Cases) mobile phone sales and chip business is able to usher in turn is the most important."

Samsung mobile phone business, Vice-President Kim Hyun Joon in the earnings conference call after the meeting, said that sales of the new Galaxy S III (Samsung Galaxy SIII Case) is very "robust" and the phone is expected to be achieved "great success", which will help on enhancing the performance of the third quarter.

Kim Hyun Joon said: "We want to see third quarter performance remains robust and we will make every effort to take full advantage of market opportunities."

As of Seoul on Friday afternoon at 2:30, Samsung shares yesterday closing price rose 5.2% to $ 1,233,000 won. The stock has risen during the year 16 percent over the same period Apple's stock price has risen 42 percent, Sony shares are down 32%.

iPad 2 is still hot as the biggest rival of The new iPad

Apple released high-definition display screen The new iPad in March of this year, also cut the retail price of the old section of the iPad. Due to lower prices for the iPad 2, more and more discouraged consumers on the iPad 2 now are beginning to purchase this product. According to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, hereinafter referred to as CIRP study released data, we found that, since the advent of The New iPad on March 16, its sales accounted for about 59% of all iPad sales, but sales of the iPad 2 also accounted for 41% of all iPad (iPad leather cases) sales share, the strength of the same can not be underestimated.

CIRP joint founder Josh Lowitz said: "This study shows that the market performance of The New iPad since its inception on March 16, we found that the new iPad did a very good job, and even contrary to our expectations but at the same time, the iPad 2 of sales performance is also excellent, it seems of The New iPad, but promote the iPad sales ".

CIRP Partner Michael Levin said, Apple's sales strategy is very smart, apple always release new products quickly eliminated the old models but now, as The New iPad and iPhone 4S (iPhone 4s cases) advent of the Apple has changed the marketing strategy.

Of course, in addition to the old section iPad sales continued to hit the old section of the Apple iPhone equally well. According to CIRP data show that except iPhone 4S, the iPhone (iPhone cases) sales also accounted for 27% of total sales.

In addition, according to data recently released by IDC, the global sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire fell from 4.8 million in Q4 2011 to 750 000 to the previous quarter. Apple iPad market performance is still very strong, rising to the current 68% from the original 54.7 percent market share continue to erode the market share of non-iPad tablet. If Apple continues to use this low-cost strategy, I think only Microsoft Windows may have hope to save the non-iPad tablet manufacturers veering.

Apple apply to lock-up Samsung Galaxy S III in United States

Apple submit their applications to the California District Court on Tuesday evening, requested the court to release initial ban on the sale of Samsung's latest flagship phone Galaxy S III.

Apple (iPhone accessories) did not raise a new lawsuit for Galaxy S III, but hope the court will request to join in the lawsuit against Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

At earlier of this week, Apple submitted to the ITC lawsuit require the implementation of the import ban on HTC smartphone (HTC Accessories), the reason is that HTC has infringed 29 Apple patents. It is worth noting that the patent in a project called " Click-Through Data" Apple sued HTC and prosecution are involved in two cases of Samsung.

Apple also mentioned the lawsuit alleges the ban Samsung Galaxy S III (Samsung Galaxy S III Accessories), the Samsung violation of the company a "universal search technology” patent, the patent relate to Siri voice assistant function in iPhone 4S.

Samsung said in a statement, "Samsung believes Apple apply lock-up request is no legal basis. And we want to ensure that the Samsung Galaxy S III successfully listed in the United States, the equipment sales in accordance with the original plan."

Rumors that Apple will release iPhone 5 and iPad Mini in September

Abstract: The U.S. investment firm of Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White said in a report today, Apple will release iPhone 5 in September of this year.

Prior to industry analysts generally believe that Apple is most likely to release a new generation of iPhone this October. But White get the news from the supply chain manufacturers in China said Apple released iPhone in September. Moreover, Apple also may be issued iPad Mini (iPad leather cases).

White attend the Taipei International Computer Show (the Computex) this week, he said in a report: "the highly anticipated iPhone (iPhone cases), we considered the possibility of release in September than October. We also believe that, when Apple will also released the iPad Mini. "

If true, it means that the Apple product release on a major adjustment. In October last year, Apple released the iPhone 4S (iPhone 4s cases), the new iPad release date is in March of this year.

Earlier reports said that iPhone 5’s thickness will be reduced by 20%, the screen size will be increased to 4 inches.

Who will buy RIM BlackBerry? Nokia, Microsoft and Oracle are all possible.

RIM has hired JP Morgan and RBC Capital Markets to expand the strategic assessment of the company. But this is only its scenes, investors can not be fooled. RIM in fact want to help two investment banks to sell itself to the highest bidder acquirer, RIM BlackBerry can fetch a high price, that two investment banks will earn a service fee.

There are rumors that Facebook is interested in buying RIM before, although this news is very shocking, the credibility is not high. RIM is not easy to sale. RIM released the latest financial report on Tuesday. The second quarter operating loss consecutive.

RIM CEO Torsten Hynes said in a statement: "the increasingly fierce market competition, our business has been greatly affected, product sales decline, the average market prices are declining, we expect the first-quarter results will reflect this situation, the first-quarter may appear operating loss."

Frankly, this is not too surprising, because the Apple iPhone is too strong. Of course, Wall Street analysts did not expect RIM to achieve good performance. According to Yahoo Finance statistics, analysts expect RIM's first-quarter revenue will decline by 25.6%, earnings per share declined 68.4 percent.

In this case, who is likely to come up with the money of at least $ 5.3 billion acquisition of RIM? I think there are three companies in alphabetical order:

1, Nokia. Because the crowding out of apples and a large number of Android (Samsung, HTC etc.) manufacturers, Nokia's day can be described as deteriorating. Smartphone superstar of the former is literally in the U.S. market is untenable, even if it's business in other markets were also affected. The acquisition of RIM help Nokia battles the U.S. market.

2, Microsoft. As a partner of the Nokia the Lumia Series smartphone, Microsoft intends to maintain its leading position in the office productivity software applications, in any case, RIM is still the leader in the field of e-mail service for businesses. In addition, if Microsoft's acquisition of RIM, it can get tens of millions to consider the user to switch to iPhone or Android enterprise networking equipment.

3, Oracle. Frankly speaking, the purpose of its acquisition of RIM is not obvious. However, Oracle has entered the server hardware market, enterprise software, including e-mail is an important driving force to promote the development of enterprise hardware business. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (Larry Ellison) said that he has established a one-stop shop for enterprise computing, the acquisition of RIM will help Oracle provide a full range of enterprise computing solutions.

Regardless of which company is the ultimate acquisition of RIM, it needs for a long time to profit from mobile computing.

Windows Phone have a good performance in Finland Accounted for 8% of mobile Internet traffic

Internet traffic monitoring organization StatCounter's latest statistics show that Nokia Windows Phone (hereinafter referred to as "WP Mobile") has been quite prominent in Nokia's native Finland, has accounted for nearly 8% of the mobile Internet traffic.

Finland has become the biggest WP phone market. In sharp contrast with this, the operating system, Microsoft WP share of only 0.53% share of the global mobile network traffic. From a global perspective, the current situation of the WP phone is not so optimistic. In addition to Finland ranked one, Iceland ranked second, but WP operating system accounted for only 2.3 percent of the country's mobile Internet traffic. Obviously, this is a pretty big gap.

Calculated in accordance with the operating system share the user's mobile Internet traffic, the top ten markets in the WP phone are: Finland, Iceland, Martinique, Austria, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark and Spain.

These data can not be compared with the WP phone sales share, but it’s enough to suggest this phone sales in the world. Market research firm IDC had also pointed out that the WP cell phones and Windows Mobile phones in the first quarter of this year's market share of 2.2%.

Rumors that Apple has ordered larger screens and will put on production next month

According to media reports, informed sources, Apple has ordered to Asian suppliers for the new generation of iPhone, a larger screen size, this display is larger than the existing iPhone screen. Expected that Apple will released a new iPhone later this year.

Sources pointed out that Apple ordered display will begin production next month, Apple's latest iPhone 4S 3.5 inch screen, this display diagonal length of at least 4 inches.

Face of fierce competition from Samsung, Apple is trying to make iPhone become more attractive product. Samsung replace Nokia become the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer at this year's first quarter, recently launched a new flagship smartphone for 4.8 inch display screen. It is also one of largest screen smartphones in the market.

So far, Apple has never changed the size of the iPhone display, since its listing in 2007, the iPhone display has maintained a 3.5 inch size. Industry analysts expect Apple will release the next generation of the iPhone this fall. And they are currently working with a number of display manufacturers LG, Sharp, and Japanese display company cooperation.

Similarly, Apple iPad Tablet PC has remained the same size, while other vendors have introduced a series of different size tablet computer products. The Wall Street Journal has reported that in February this year, Apple is testing smaller than the existing 9.7 inches iPad iPad Tablet PC.

Apple spokesmen declined to comment.

Apple with the iPhone successfuly define the smart phone, but the smart phone market rapid development recent years and today's smart phone market is flooded with different brands, different sizes and different price smartphone.

As the world's most valuable companies, Apple is facing strong competition from Samsung. Samsung mobile phone is more abundant species. These two vendors share of smart phones together account for more than half of the global smartphone market share. The market research firm Strategy Analytics data shows that Samsung smartphone sales in the first quarter of this year to 44.5 million, accounted for 30.6 percent of the global smartphone market share more than Apple, Apple iPhone sales in the first quarter to 35.1 million accounted for 24.1 percent share in the global smart phone market.

Industry analysts expect Samsung smartphone sales will double this year, next-generation iPhone will also promote the sales of the Apple smartphone.

Samsung said the new flagship mobile phone Galaxy S III will land the European market this month, and land U.S. market this summer, Galaxy S III with a 4.8-inch display, larger than the existing Galaxy S II 4.3-inch display. The other major smart phone manufacturer HTC of Taiwan also has a screen size of more than 4 inches smart phone models.

Mizuho Investors Securities analyst said Apple's next-generation iPhone on a bigger screen does not necessarily follow the trend of competitors' practices. The analyst said, Although the smart phone market has shown a trend of diversification, iPhone is still the market leader in the industry. A whole are concerned about the movements of the Apple, the iPhone advantages exist in the overall experience of the user interface and applications, screen size is not the decisive characteristics. Apple introduced a low-cost iPhone, then this would suggest that the changing market environment has begun to affect apple.

iPhone is still Apple's huge growth engine, the best-selling smartphone in the Asian market is a key factor behind Apple this year, the first quarter of bright earnings. The first quarter of this year, Apple's profit almost doubled iPhone sales increased by 88%.

In addition to the intense competition in the smartphone market, Samsung and Apple confront at court. Apple allegations that Samsung violated its smartphone design and patent last year. Samsung filed a counterclaim on it. At the same time, Apple and Samsung is also a relationship of interdependence. Apple is the largest customer of Samsung parts department. This department produce key components of smart phones and tablet PC chip and display screen.

Apple does not manufacture their own products, it’s the same with other major consumer electronics brands. Apple uses the product of the main components from Asian suppliers and emploies professional manufacturers for assembly of products, many manufacturers from Taiwan and in mainland China carry out a wide range of business.