Everything is new – well forgotten old: Samsung shipped almost 10 million foldable smartphones in 2021

Just a couple of weeks before its Unpacked event, Samsung announced that it had shipped “nearly 10 million

foldable smartphones” all over the world forlast year. The head of Samsung's MX division, Tae Moon Ro, said this was a 300% increase from 2020 and that he expects the “rapid growth” sales Discuss

Most foldable phone buyers (about70 percent) chose Flip. This is not at all surprising, since Samsung has previously admitted that it was the Flip 3 that made people change the brand than the company's flagships.

However, 10 million devices that, according toAccording to Roh, Samsung shipped last year significantly more than the figures previously published by IDC. A February report from International Data Corporation said that "global shipments of foldable phones, including both flip and foldable form factors, reached 7.1 million units in 2021."

Whatever the number, Samsung's MX division posted revenue growth last year, driven largely by strong sales of its foldable phones and the latest Galaxy S devices.