To halt smartphone slide, Samsung rewrites playbook

Cover Stories on Flipboard: "We've now gotten to a point where we can secure a baseline profit even if the market stagnates, so long as we don't make a bad mistake," said Kim Gae-youn, vice president in charge of Samsung's smartphone product planning. "I'm confident we can hold our ground."

It's adapt or die and they adapted.

Samsung launches 6-inch, all-metal, super-thin Galaxy A9, in China | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Evan Blass

Samsung launches 6-inch, all-metal, super-thin Galaxy A9, in China | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Evan Blass Like the rest of the A handsets, Galaxy A9 is a metal and glass design, running Android 5.1 Lollipop (with a Marshmallow upgrade likely to arrive in a timely manner). At 7.4mm thin, the A9 features a full HD (1080p) Super AMOLED display, 3GB RAM / 32GB storage, and a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 652 SoC, all powered by a massive, albeit non-removable, 4,000mAh battery.

Marvy!

Samsung's #Galaxy11 viral ad fumbles when Franz Beckenbauer tweets from iPhone

Samsung's #Galaxy11 viral ad fumbles when Franz Beckenbauer tweets from iPhone - A global ad campaign to promote Samsung devices, involving soccer stars and an alien invasion story, instead revealed that the fantasy campaign's star manager Franz Beckenbauer tweets from his iPhone, not a Galaxy device.

Lots of comedy in this article!

Apple Loses World Chip-Eating Challenge to Samsung - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD

Apple Loses World Chip-Eating Challenge to Samsung - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD: "In January of 2012, Apple claimed the title of world’s largest buyer of semiconductors. "

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