{"id":34342,"date":"2024-04-26T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=34342"},"modified":"2024-04-26T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:57:15","slug":"samsung-is-facing-s24-smartphone-shortage-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/mobile-phones\/samsung-is-facing-s24-smartphone-shortage-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung facing S24 smartphone shortage in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/pk\/\">Samsung<\/a> Electronics is reportedly facing a shortage of its S24 smartphones in Pakistan due to unexpectedly high demand for the flagship phone.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in Bloomberg, &#8220;The handsets, assembled locally in the country, have been in hot demand since their launch earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s fifth-most populous nation, Pakistan has 192 million mobile phone users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamsung Electronics is working hard to meet the demand of our customers, and we anticipate sales will resume shortly,\u201d the South Korean maker of chips, gadgets, and appliances said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Financial incentives from the government have shifted Pakistan\u2019s smartphone industry from mostly importing overseas-made products in 2017 to domestic assembly of the vast majority of new handsets sold. Mobile companies produced about 21 million units in Pakistan last year \u2014 led by local and Chinese brands VGOTEL, Infinix, and Itel \u2014 while another 1.7 million units were imported, data from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority show.<\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan, Samsung has an edge over Apple with better pricing and distribution. Because Apple doesn\u2019t do local manufacturing, iPhone buyers have to pay a tax \u2014 added for imported handsets \u2014 of as much as $650, more than a third of the phone\u2019s official price.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/samsung-galaxy-s24-latest-price-pta-tax-in-april-2024\/\">Samsung Galaxy S24, latest price, pta tax in April 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics is reportedly facing a shortage of its S24 smartphones in Pakistan due to unexpectedly high demand for the flagship phone. According to a report in Bloomberg, &#8220;The handsets, assembled locally in the country, have been in hot demand since their launch earlier this year. The world\u2019s fifth-most populous nation, Pakistan has 192 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14812],"tags":[15798,171,13805,15797,15799],"class_list":["post-34342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-phones","tag-s24-shortage-in-pakistan","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-s24-price-in-pakistan","tag-samsung-is-facing-s24-smartphone-shortage-in-pakistan","tag-samsung-s24-why-pakistan-is-facing-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}