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The Gear Solo, which is a gear that has it’s own SIM-card, is more or less announced, or leaked, makes a smart wearable: You can run and leave your smartphone at home as I guess you’ll be able to make calls from it, although I still thinks it looks funny to see a man talking to his sleeve… We’ve covered the Gear 2, the Gear Two Neo and the Gear Fit. Samsung already has some entries here and more are announced to come.

An extra source of income might be the wearables which is said to be a 16 billion dollar market in 2016. Let alone if you have to pay for components and workforce. That makes sense because there cannot be more than 25 dollar profit at a 25 dollar watch. Lee Min-Hee, an analyst at IM Investment and Securities stated, even though Samsung supplies phones from the very basic on, it’s the really smart phones that bring in the money. Let’s face it: Samsungs’ smartphones makes up for some half of their profit. And that perceived reduction in smartphone sales is not easily replaced by selling wearables and all kind of accessories and add-ons.

Both the european and US markets are slowing down whereas the Asian markets, especially India and China, are getting more crowded by locally produced smartphones. In spite of the Galaxy S5 getting a hot welcome, selling some 30% more than the S4 did, analysts are in doubt of the the S5 outselling the S4 in numbers.

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