Samsung logoSamsung is expected in the third quarter of 2016 make more profit than last year. That is, after the fiasco around the batteries of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 somewhat striking.

The brand reported on the basis of preliminary figures that the profit is expected to be increased to 7.8 trillion won, which equates to 6.3 billion euros. That’s 5.5 percent more profit than the company last year in the same quarter,. The sales of the Korean manufacturer is reduced to over 39 billion euros. That is approximately 5 percent less than a year earlier.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7-problems

the exploding batteries had Samsung worldwide more than 2.5 million Note 7-equipment recall. Which replaced the company’s then free for secure models of the Note 7-phone. That took the smartphonefabrikant approximately 1 billion euros.

more profits

However, Samsung more profit than the same quarter last year. The Koreans knew the cost of the Note 7-problems to compensate by a good sales of components, such as memory chips and displays.

Nomura Holdings-analyst Chang Won think, therefore, that the smartphonetak of the technologieproducent next year will sharply grow, provided that there are no problems. "If the recall of phones, no high costs had brought with him, the profit is still higher," said Won compared to the English news agency Bloomberg.

Samsung Galaxy S8

Yesterday there appeared online a benchmarktest where it is rumored that the Samsung Galaxy S8. The device crushed the benchmarks of the iPhone 7 models and scored as the first of over 200 thousand on AnTuTu. Or it really is the Galaxy S8 is not quite sure. The benchmark could, in fact, also of the new iPad Pro models.

Source: Bloomberg via NU.nl