Last Friday, 11 March, in 60 countries around the world South Korean company Samsung has launched the sale of its new flagship smartphone Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge.
As GSMArena reports, this year in Europe, the number of pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge turned in 2.5 times more than were issued in the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge in 2015 for the same period of time. Edge-version of the new flagship was popular with the ordinary version of the flat-screen TV. The share model with a curved screen with both sides had a total of 61% of the total number of pre-orders, issued on the new Samsung flagship in Europe.
A few days earlier, the head of Samsung's mobile business Ko Dong-Jin , said that the demand for the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge surpassed the company's expectations.
A US research firm IHS, meanwhile, has calculated the cost of the new Samsung flagship . According to their calculations, Samsung Galaxy S7 costs the company $ 255, while in the US it is sold already for $ 670 without a contract, and grants from the mobile operators. The most expensive component of the smartphone is a single-chip platform Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, that Samsung costs around $ 62. The second value should be the main camera with 12-megapixel unit, valued at $ 13.80. The rest of the hardware, including the aluminum case, safety glass for the front and rear panels, Super AMOLED display and built-in storage, IHS experts estimated at $ 174.30. Assembling each smartphone costs $ 5 .