Samsung - Facing U.S. Troubles

It's been over two months since the Samsung Galaxy S2 was released in its native home of Korea and Europe but it still has to make a landing in the U.S.  The biggest question is, why?  Why is it taking so long for the Samsung Galaxy S2 to arrive to the United States.  They've already seemingly given each version of the Galaxy S2 a brand for each U.S. carrier and yet the phone still seems to be far from within reach.  Read more after the break.

It seems the answer is that the U.S. carriers are not as desperate as they once were.  The CDMA technology used the U.S. isn't exactly where Samsung's phones thrive, and the Samsung Galaxy S2 is no exception.  While the original Samsung Galaxy S was the phone of U.S. carriers to get, to fight the iPhone dominance, now with Motorola and HTC pumping out powerful smartphones, the carriers no longer need to bend down for Samsung.  Motorola and HTC are actually better at creating CDMA counterparts and the costs associated are more likely less than that of Samsung.

As of now, the U.S. carrier environment is dominated by four main national carriers, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.  Verizon and Sprint are CDMA networks, so there's no doubt that they're aiming to grab Motorola and HTC smartphones.  AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM network carriers, but AT&T is relying more on the iPhone and Windows Phone 7.  T-Mobile is too busy trying to make their financials look good for the impeding buy out by AT&T.

Overall, it looks like Samsung is currently in a bad position with the Galaxy S2 when it comes to the U.S. market.  The injunction and lawsuit by Apple doesn't help any either.  Hopefully the carriers will wake up and start being proactive again or else the Galaxy S2 may soon become a forgotten smartphone.