Samsung is planning to move to a metal case design for its premium Galaxy smartphone devices, according to the Electronic Times. Currently, the company uses plastic for its smartphones.
The Wireless Business Division of Samsung Electronics reportedly decided on August 29th to build a line for producing metal (magnesium and aluminum) cases at its Gumi plant.
The company plans to commence sample development and pilot production at the Gumi plant with mass production starting next year in its Vietnamese plant.
"Mold engineers above class A were recently temporarily transferred to Vietnam one after another,” said a Samsung official. “Currently, considering the manpower resources of the Vietnamese plant, there seems to be no problem with building the production line in six months.”
Since the release of Galaxy S3, Samsung Electronics has acquired the economy of scale with a single model, and became capable of using metal cases. Samsung Electronics is planning to apply the metal case to some premium smartphones starting early next year, and then to several other models.
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Great - September 2, 2013 at 5:48pm
By the time Samsung tries to make their high end phones in metal, Apple will be using the innovative Liquid Metal! Will Samsung try to copy?
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Guest - September 2, 2013 at 7:43am
As soon as they switch to higher quality materials so it doesn't feel like I'm holding a toy, I am interested!
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IName - September 1, 2013 at 3:49pm
Switching to a more premium look is the only way I see them continuing to compete with Apple. Making the phone bigger, overlapping with their other product lines and adding gimmicky features isnt going to cut it for much longer. i
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m_thoroughbred - August 31, 2013 at 9:48pm
How is paying $100 a year amount to playing $1200 a year?
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Tony - September 2, 2013 at 7:05am
Its a type, its 100 dollar a month = 1200 a year of money wasted.
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woody wood - August 31, 2013 at 8:04pm
a metal iphone, a plastic iphone, the galaxy is on plastic, the galaxy users will be more unconfortable now their phones will be compared to 5C only ;), apple is doing bad things to samsung
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Aarey - August 31, 2013 at 6:27pm
I dont know why people argue about iphone and samsung, me i like both i get use to either one, what i would really want is a cellphone company that wont charge a lot for LTE.
Other than that, iphone and galaxy do so many things, and when you have the phone, you dont use all of the features, at least thats me, cause im usually workin.
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Great - August 31, 2013 at 4:29pm
Samsung is reportedly moving to metal housing designs and gold colors, which some see as a response to Apple's design choices.
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John - August 31, 2013 at 4:32pm
Apple was not the first company to use metal cases for phones.
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Sumady - August 31, 2013 at 5:06pm
Maybe apple not invent everything. But apple make it better and popular and then other follows...
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Tony - August 31, 2013 at 8:06pm
While Apple often popularizes designs, the black iPhone 5 had issues with the bezel chipping and the back color fading. This raises valid questions about premium build quality.
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