Samsung to make another high-end device on Bangladesh plant
Samsung's juggernaut in production the latest smartphones in Bangladesh continues as the South Korean tech giant provides taken to assembling its flagship wise device Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in its local plant.
The handset, which was rolled out globally on January 14, will be the second 5G-enabled smartphone of Samsung assembled in Bangladesh. The initial 5G smartphone was Note 20 Ultra 5G which hit markets this past year.
The devices use the fifth-generation cellular network technology that provides users near-real-time interactivity, faster internet, lower response times and the capacity to join many devices.
The first batch of the 5G devices come up with in the 30-acre manufacturing facility of Fair Electronics in Narsingdi will to enter the market on the first week of February.
"We are now concentrating on 5G gadgets as we've the capacity to put together the devices with latest technological innovations," Mohammad Mesbah Uddin, chief advertising officer of Good Electronics, Samsung's local assembly spouse, told The Daily Superstar yesterday.
"Besides, we got a significant response for the primary 5G handset manufactured in Bangladesh," he explained, adding that about 8,000 units of Be aware 20 Ultra 5G have already been sold so far.
The business's value addition will be about 20 % to the 5G-enabled device, the pre-booking that started on January 20 and can continue until February 10.
Although the device will set you back Tk 139,999, a person can buy it at Tk 119,000. A Tk 10,000 discount has been provided on pre-reserving and another Tk 10,000 in exchange of a Samsung machine, besides the price tag of the used unit.
However, the exchange benefit cashback is applicable on select products and at the mercy of dealer discretion based on the condition of the old phone.
In the US, the Galaxy S21 Ultra will set you back $1,199.99. If the device is imported, the price would be a lot more than Tk 166,000. Thanks to local assembling, the price of the device will become down by at least Tk 26,000, added Uddin.
Good Electronics, which started assembling Samsung handsets found in 2019, churned out 14 lakh units of 4G-enabled smartphones that season and 16 lakh this past year.
According to Uddin, Samsung makes up about 19 per cent to 21 % of smartphone revenue in Bangladesh and Fair manufactures 99 % of Samsung smartphones in the united states.
Relating to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, the existing annual handset product sales in the united states amounted to Tk 10,000 crore.
10 brands of handsets are now manufactured in the united states: Walton, Samsung, Symphony, Itel-Techno, 5 Superstar, Winstar, Vivo, Lava, DTC and Oppo.
Over 1.45 crore handsets were assembled in the country's 10 developing plants in fiscal 2019-20, comprising Fair's 9.73 lakh, Edison's 14.20 lakh, Carlcare Technology bd's 42.81 lakh and Anira International's 10.78 lakh.
In that fiscal, local consumers bought 2.94 crore handsets, which 77 % sets were 2G-allowed, 5 % 3G and 18 % 4G.
Locally assembled smartphones met 51 % of the country's demand for handsets in fiscal 2019-20, whereas imported types the remaining 49 per cent.
Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G's screen size is normally 6.8" in the entire rectangle and 6.6" accounting for the rounded corners. The actual viewable area is less due to the rounded corners and camera hole.
It includes a 40MP selfie camera, 12MP ultra-huge camera, 108mp wide-angle camera and two 10mp telephoto cameras.
