Samsung sells 180,000 Gear S2 smartwatches in under eight hours, report says

Samsung’s Gear S2 is proving to be an exciting smartwatch, as a new report is saying that over 180,000 Gear S2’s have been sold in China. All of these sales were said to have taken place within a period of eight hours, proving that the Gear S2 is a big hit among Chinese fans.

All of these sales were made through http://www.JD.com, a major online retailer in the People’s Republic. When you boil the numbers down, JD was selling a whopping 22,500 units per hour. The online retailer isn’t the only avenue for buying the Gear S2 in China, though. It can be bought via many retail stores in the country, but the demand for Samsung’s new smartwatch is so high that stores are running out of stock and complaining of shortages.

The Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic are being sold for 2198 yuan ($350USD) and 2398 yuan ($390USD), respectively.

One thing to keep in mind about these high numbers is that, while Samsung may have made the initial sale, there’s no telling how many of these people will return their Gear S2 after using for it a couple of days. With that in mind, it’d be interesting to see a final report on the actual sales after about 30 days instead of just seeing the hype.

Have you picked up a Gear S2?

source: Tizen Indonesia
via: SamMobile

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