Samsung India stops selling mobile phones online!

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Think of uncles and aunts who do not have the technical expertise to transfer their data from their older device to the new one. This is exactly the kind of service you get even at Apple Reseller Stores here in India.
 
Indian online stores are the good source of reviews of the 'degraded models' with the same name as US versions sold in India. Look at Galaxy S5/Note 3 reviews in Flipkart.
Even if someone not willing to buy online will be looking at these reviews as they show up first (mostly via ads)

There will less negative reviews.
 
Talking about experiences, some years back had accompanied my mom to the Nokia priority store, phone was sold at mrp rate, however they transferred the data and settings from the old phone using nokia PC suite and set it up. I remember the old phone just had IR connectivity, no Bluetooth either! Great experience. Alas now Nokia priority is defunct!
And FYI - she has both the Nokia phones working, but uses a Samsung s3 now[emoji13]
 
May be I've never experienced such V.I.P. treatments till date, or since I become online freak.

But HTC Store gave my father a very bitter experience in DELHI.
He bought phone on whatever price it was, i think MRP or so.

he was new to android, phonebook transfer was not done.
He used to take classes from me on phone and every night he asked more about it, normally 1 hour every weekday.

But later he become too friendly with phone and jumbled up some settings, sent the phone thru his PA to Store
they RESET and sent back, WTF, his phone-garten time reset

Few weeks later similar issue, phone sent, RESET

Few weeks later similar issue, phone sent, RESET

Later I begged him to stop sending phone to store.

Only Good thing was once Motherboard went dead and HTC replaced it within 1 working day.
 
The only smartphone brand that has managed to remain relevant is Apple. Samsung is slowly going through the same phase that Nokia went. You just need to keep reinventing yourself to stay relevant just look at how moto is back with a bang. I expect samsung not to fall like blackberry or nokia.
 
Samsung is not going anywhere (Apple too isn't). Samsung produces almost every single part in mobile devices so they are going to be relevant to the mobile industry. Hate them as much as you like but they are also some of the biggest innovators out there in terms of hardware. Just look at the Edge smartphone. Crude? Perhaps. But it is the best implementation of Curved displays I have seen till now.
 


I expect micromax to beat samsung as the largest phone manufacturer here in india. Its just a feeling that companies like samsung and Nokia just gave away their lead when they had the technology to build much better stuff. It seems like they just went into hibernation allowing other brands to sneak past ahead of them.
 
I still remember how the micromax canvas with 5inch display at 10k pricepoint sold like crazy with everyone wanting one. It just seems samsung devices have just not evolved with relevance to the market.
 
One of the down sides of Samsung strategy in India is soc choice vs U.S markets - they refuse to introduce the Qualcomm soc's here. Doubt that they would launch the note edge here as well. The real ace up their sleeve is the amoled displays which they refuse to sell it to other device manufacturers.
 

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