Details of the program, including the prices that Samsung will charge for its Galaxy phones, aren’t mentioned in the report.
It’s happening again with Samsung rumored to launch its own leasing scheme that mirrors the iPhone Upgrade Program. The Korean company and Apple Inc.
It’s worth noting that S Health app until now was a feature available to Samsung devices only and came preloaded on high-end devices. Apart from the upgrade plans, Apple’s partnership with mobile carriers and their traditional carrier contracts allow affordable ways to own an iPhone.
Samsung is reportedly planning to borrow another page from Apple’s smartphone playbook.
Apple’s move – and Samsung’s eagerness to follow suit – is another indication that the smartphone industry is moving away from the traditional long-term contract that was once an integral part of phone ownership. The reports also claim that the Galaxy S7 will have a unibody design, which will make the Galaxy S7 the first ever Samsung flagship to be fully made of metal.
The second new ad highlights a unique feature of the Galaxy S6 Edge family, the curved display, which is ready to offer an immersive video experience to users.
Apple worldwide marketing senior vice-president Phil Schiller speaks abut an iPhone upgrade program during its launch event in San Francisco, California. Now, Carriers have started promoting no-interest plans for premium phones that come with hefty price tags.
The iPhone Upgrade Program allows customers to bypass dealing with mobile carriers by setting up a payment plan for their devices directly with Apple. A plan offered by Sprint provides customers the opportunity to lease new iPhones for a monthly fee of $15. Samsung is being praised this year for what they’ve done with TouchWiz, and even Tizen is supposedly getting better, so we’ve decidedly high expectations of next year’s smartphone.
“Australians are upgrading their phones regularly and for those who want the latest handsets all the time, it would take the hassle out of reselling and buying new phones”, he said.