If you’re LG, you’d generally expect that any devices you release will sell pretty well in your native country of South Korea – after all, they own the second or third largest population of smartphones there. Unfortunately, it would appear that this is quite far from the truth as the recently released LG V10 didn’t even make it into the top 10 of smartphones sold domestically in its first week on the market. The LG V10 came in 15th, beaten out by the chart topping Samsung Galaxy Note 5, and Samsung’s other various devices like the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy Grand Max making up the rest of the top 10.
That’s got to be disappointing for LG who billed the LG V10 as a premium device to replace the LG G4 in the interim before the LG G5’s release. And it’s not all that bad a phone either – if anything, it offers one of the more unique experiences on any smartphone with its second display and wide-angle selfie technology. It’s a stark reminder of how competitive the smartphone market is right now – even with companies putting everything they can into a smartphone, sometimes they can’t even get decent sales out of it.
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Source: Business Korea via Phone Arena
