{"id":654283,"date":"2013-04-24T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=226584"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:56:38","slug":"galaxy-s4-supply-limited-warns-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654283","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy S4 Supply Limited, Warns Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, T-Mobile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/samsung-galaxy-s4-launch-delayed-on-t-mobile-2013-04\">revealed<\/a> that its original Samsung Galaxy S4 launch date has been pushed back from April 24 to April 29.  The carrier blamed &#8220;an unexpected delay with inventory deliveries&#8221; as the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it seems that T-Mobile&#8217;s supply difficulties were a sign of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-04-24\/samsung-galaxy-s4-delayed-by-deliveries-t-mobile-usa-says.html\">statement<\/a> to Bloomberg making it clear that supplies of its new flagship Android smartphone will be short for weeks after its release.<\/p>\n<p>The statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Due to overwhelming global demand of Galaxy S4, the initial supply may be limited.  We expect to fulfill inventory to meet demands in the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pre-orders for the Galaxy S4 are already being taken by AT&#038;T, Sprint, U.S. Cellular and some retail locations.  (Consumers might want to steer clear of pre-ordering at Best Buy, though, as the store has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/iphone-5-best-buy-pre-orders-not-being-fulfilled-2012-09\">history of overbooking smartphone pre-orders<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, the Galaxy S series has begun to dominate the Android landscape as the only Android smartphones that regularly put up sales numbers even in the ballpark of Apple&#8217;s iPhone sales.  Being unable to meet high demand is a challenge that Apple has dealt with for years now, and one that Samsung will have to contend with now that it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/u-s-smartphone-market-slowly-turning-into-the-applesamsung-show-2013-02\">Apple&#8217;s largest rival<\/a>.  Though Samsung is the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, even its prodigious manufacturing capabilities can&#8217;t keep up with demand for the next Galaxy-branded smartphone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=ZjrWHPafjGQ:Bb93d33NmOc:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/ZjrWHPafjGQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, T-Mobile revealed that its original Samsung Galaxy S4 launch date has been pushed back from April 24 to April 29. The carrier blamed &#8220;an unexpected delay with inventory deliveries&#8221; as the cause. Now, it seems that T-Mobile&#8217;s supply difficulties were a sign of things to come. Samsung has issued a statement to Bloomberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}