Samsung says the Galaxy Gear has exceeded its expectations

The South Korean Samsung has come up against the recent information attributed to the Galaxy Gear the pyrrhic figure of 50.000 units sold since the beginning of its commercialization. For its part, from Seoul it is claimed that the smart watch in the house has exceeded its own expectations reaching the distribution of 800.000 units of the same in the last two months - which does not mean that they have been sold -. What is clear is that the Asian giant is willing to defend its innovative device against criticism such as those that accuse it of being of little use for the price it has.

In any case, the fact that the company itself compares itself to the Galaxy Gear as a "small green tomato" that still has a way to go to be ripe and to be able to give 100 percent of its possibilities, it does a disservice to the intention of Samsung to present its smartwatch as a global success. The parallelism between Galaxy Gear and an immature fruit is not something that we have pulled out of our sleeve, but rather it is a statement of one of those responsible for the Samsung Open Innovation Center, David Eun, who has been convinced that there is still time to see the limit to which the small South Korean device will be able to reach.

Samsung Galaxy Gear: Success or Failure?

The firm based in Seoul ensures that the Samsung Galaxy Gear It is the "best-selling smartwatch available on the market" and it has been emphasized that they work with the objective of "expanding the range of compatible devices" with the small gadgets and with the intention of expanding sales promotions for the Christmas campaign that we have just around the corner.

For its part, from BusinessKorea it is stated that sales of the Galaxy Gear since their launch in September "they are well below initial expectations", which collides head-on with the statement issued by Samsung. In this sense the 50.000 units that supposedly would have been sold of the South Korean smartwatch would mean the daily commercialization of 800-900 devices per day, which is far from the usual sales figures for devices Samsung, that we are used to reaching millionaire figures in very short periods of time - without going any further, the Galaxy Note 3 reached the five million units sold in just one month -. Still, the poor sales figures achieved by the Galaxy Gear seem to fit the tall return rates of the device, which would have come to worry the eastern firm itself.

It also does not help much with the posture of Samsung the recent opinion expressed by former New York Times technology specialist David Pogue, who reportedly said that the Galaxy Gear it has an "incoherent and frustrating" design and would have discouraged its purchase. On the other hand, the South Korean company continues to work on polishing the possible defects of its smart watch, as shown by the notification improvements that have been implemented thanks to the latest updates.

As always, the last word on whether the Samsung Galaxy Gear whether it is a success or a failure is solely in your hands. We have limited ourselves to explaining the different existing positions and it is you now, dear readers, who must say whether or not they would buy the smart watch of the Asian giant.

Source: BusinessKorea, Reuters y uberism Vía: TheVerge y uberism