Sales of Galaxy S8 - a strategic smartphone released by South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. in April - has outperformed its predecessor, presenting a rosy outlook that the world’s largest smartphone maker is on course to recovering its reputation after the Galaxy Note 7 setback last year.

According to foreign media reports by Phone Arena and Taiwan’s daily newspaper DigiTimes on Tuesday, Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung Electronics’ mobile communications business, said in a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 14 (local time) that the cumulative sales of the Galaxy S8 smartphone is 15 percent higher than that of the Galaxy S7 thus far compared on the same period.

Sales of the Galaxy S8 are expected to increase steadily in the third and fourth quarters of this year, added Koh.

His comments were made amid speculation by many brokerage firm and market research agency analysts that sales of the Galaxy S8 smartphones was higher than that of the Galaxy S7 in the early phase after the launch but has slowed down to fall short of the predecessor now.

Samsung Electronics confirmed that what the executive has commented on the sales of Galaxy S8 is true but it cannot disclose specific sales figure.

Koh, meanwhile, said that Samsung Electronics plans to unveil Galaxy Note 8 in the end of August and release the device in Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom in September and elsewhere in October.

By Lee Dong-in

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