16 New Smartphones by Samsung in 1st Trimester as Battle for Bigger Market Share with Apple Heats Up

Despite the favourable reviews of new smartphones such as the HTC One, Sony Xperia and Nokia Lumia 920 as well as tablets such as the Surface Pro, the smartphone and tablet market remains largely a battleground between Samsung and Apple.

The latest report showed that Apple was gaining more ground in the smartphone market for Q1 2013 at its market share went up 2.7 per cent to 39 per cent. Rival Samsung logged a smaller 0.7 per cent growth in the last quarter, but other tech firms such as HTC, Motorola and LG suffered cuts in market share by 0.8 per cent, 0.6 per cent and 0.3 per cent, respectively.

The South Korean tech giant, however, is not letting Apple gain the upper hand when it has stolen the smartphone crown. To ensure it got a significant cut of the pie, Samsung released 16 phones during the first four months of the year, led by its flagship, Samsung Galaxy S4.

The releases include phablets. Techies, though, note that many of the phones released by Samsung are very similar to one another. That strategy is a complete opposite from Apple's which only releases one new smartphone a year and one iPad refresh.

ZDNET said the lack of differentiation in Samsung handsets reflects its approach to the global business that making unique units for different regions is not worth the extra investment in software.

Here is the list of Samsung's phone releases for the first trimester and their screen sizes.

• Galaxy Note 8 (8 inches)
• Galaxy Tab 3 (7 inches)
• Galaxy Mega 6.3 (6.3 inches)
• Galaxy Mega 5.8 (5.8 inches)
• Galaxy S4 (5 inches)

• Galaxy Win (4.7 inches)
• Galaxy Express (4.5 inches)
• Galaxy XCover 2 (4 inches)
• Galaxy Fame (3.5 inches)

• REX 90 (3.5 inches)
• Galaxy Young (3.27 inches)
• Galaxy Star (3 inches)
• Galaxy Pocket Neo (3 inches)
• REX 70 (3 inches)

• REX 80 (3 inches)
• REX 60 (3 inches).

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