{"id":355319,"date":"2025-12-19T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355319\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:57:11","slug":"samsung-sold-only-half-as-many-smartwatches-as-apple-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355319\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung sold only half as many smartwatches as Apple this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung might be the world&#8217;s biggest smartphone brand, but it isn&#8217;t anywhere close to the number one spot in the smartwatch segment. The South Korean firm, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/galaxy-watch-8-classic-ultra-prices-sizes-and-release-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launched three new Galaxy Watches<\/a> this year, managed to sell slightly more smartwatches compared to last year. However, compared to Apple, it sold only half as many smartwatches this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to market research firm IDC (<a href=\"https:\/\/digital.cnmo.com\/news\/801273.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via CNMO<\/a>), Huawei ranked first in global fitness tracker and smartwatch sales. The Chinese firm sold 28.6 million fitness trackers and smartwatches in the first three quarters of this year. That is a 21.6% improvement compared to the first three quarters of 2024. Xiaomi sold 27.9 million fitness trackers and smartwatches during the same period, and it is a 36.1% improvement compared to the first three quarters of last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>Apple ranked third in the list with 27.9 million Apple Watch sales, a 23.9% rise compared to last year. Samsung sold 11.8 million Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Watch series devices in the first three quarters of 2025. It is a 1.5% improvement compared to the first three quarters of 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Samsung-Global-Smartwatch-Market-Share-Q1-To-Q3-2025-IDC.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"262\" alt=\"samsung global smartwatch market share q1 to q3 2025 idc\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The report says that Samsung&#8217;s smartwatch sales were lagging in the first two quarters compared to the same period last year. However, after it launched the Galaxy Watch 8, Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and the Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025) in mid-2025, its sales improved, and the company managed to post slightly higher numbers than last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>You can read our Galaxy Watch 8 review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/samsung\/galaxy-watch-8\/review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a> and our Galaxy Watch 8 Classic review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/samsung\/galaxy-watch-8-classic\/review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>. Next year, the company will likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/samsung-plans-galaxy-watches-years-ahead-watch-9-and-10-confirmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launch the Galaxy Watch 9<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/heres-when-samsung-will-launch-the-galaxy-watch-ultra-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 in mid-2026<\/a>. They are expected to be powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/galaxy-wearables-could-have-solid-state-batteries-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">solid state batteries<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"google-preferred-news-source-cta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/add-sammobile-as-a-preferred-source-on-google-to-always-get-the-latest-news\/\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"google-preferred-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark.png\" alt=\"Google Preferred News Source\" style=\"max-width: 50%; height: auto;\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung might be the world&#8217;s biggest smartphone brand, but it isn&#8217;t anywhere close to the number one spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1572,49,48,195,8051,848,61,21663],"class_list":{"0":"post-355319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-huawei","13":"tag-samsung","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-xiaomi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}