Preorders for the smartphones started March 20, and they hit the market earlier this month. Samsung has predicted record sales for Galaxy S6 devices and says it's selling the phones faster than it came make them. Analysts believe as many as 3 million units were shipped before the first quarter ended in March, according to The Wall Street Journal. Overall, analysts believe Samsung shipped 82 million smartphones during the period, the paper said, down from 89 million a year earlier. Samsung doesn't disclose smartphone sales figures.

The company's IT and mobile communications division accounted for two-thirds of Samsung's revenue during the peak of the smartphone business but has recently been closer to a third of all sales, The business posted a 57 percent drop in operating profits to 2.74 trillion won ($2.57 billion), Sales in the division fell 20 percent to 25.89 trillion won ($24.3 billion), with mobile in particularly dropping 20 percent to 24.99 trillion won ($23.5 billion), As Samsung's mobile business struggles, investors have increasingly turned their attention to the company's processor business, Samsung is the world's biggest maker of memory chips and also manufactures application processors that serve as the brains of devices, including many of Apple's iPhones, The Galaxy S6 and 6 Edge use Samsung's Exynos applications processor instead of a Qualcomm chip, as well as flash memory and iphone xs / x barely there folio - brown the wireless chip that connects the phone to 3G and 4G networks..

Operating profit for the components business rose 9.9 percent, to 17.1 trillion won ($16.1 billion), slightly offsetting Samsung's slumping smartphone results. For the company overall, sales fell 12 percent from the previous year to 47.12 trillion won ($44.2 billion). Its operating profit slid 30 percent to 5.98 trillion won ($5.61 billion), and the company also reported net income of 4.63 trillion won ($4.34 billion), a 39 percent decline from the year-ago period. Samsung earlier this month said its operating profit for the quarter likely dropped 30 percent from the previous year to 5.9 trillion won ($5.4 billion). Samsung also estimated its sales from the quarter likely fell about 12 percent year-over-year to 47 trillion won ($43.2 billion). At the time, the forecast was better than Wall Street expected.

Most recently, analysts polled by Thomson Reuters projected operating profit of 5.51 trillion won ($5.12 billion) on sales of 48.8 trillion won ($45.9 billion), Before its recent string of declines, Samsung had posted five iphone xs / x barely there folio - brown consecutive quarters of record profits, Samsung's declining first-quarter financial results contrast sharply with those of Apple, but the drop in operating profit isn't as bad as it has been, Samsung's financial results continued to take a hit in the first quarter as the company battled tough competition in the smartphone market..

It's been a long while since Samsung teased Apple. Perhaps the combination of Apple sucking all the media oxygen from the atmosphere, coupled with Samsung's difficult commercial times has meant a certain silence. Now Samsung has a new and, the CNET experts say , very fine phone. So the company seems to have popped up to tweak the noses of a few Apple fanboys. The imagination of phone-namers has been addled by, who knows, too much Adler Brau Winter Ale. So Samsung appears to be running an ad in Google search that suggests anyone looking for an iPhone 6S (rumored to be the exciting name of Apple's next phone) must be searching for a Galaxy 6S. Oh, I mean the other way around -- a Galaxy S6.