Samsung announced the Galaxy A23 5G in August this year, with sales beginning the following month. But soon after the phone’s market release, the company found that a “certain feature” was causing serious problems with the handset’s functioning, The Elec reports. It reportedly conducted a month-long investigation into the issue and sought help from various industry partners to resolve it. The unspecified problem caused issues with components like the camera. The Korean behemoth has now fixed the issue. While it didn’t reveal what the problem was, Samsung said it no longer plans to continue with the same production plan for the Galaxy A23 5G. According to the report, the company originally planned to ship 12.6 million units of the device this year. But it is now aiming to sell less than four million units, a whopping 70 percent drop. Samsung has also reduced its 2023 sales target for the phone to just five million units. Samsung reportedly cited the “headaches” the unspecified problem caused for this production cut of the Galaxy A23 5G. However, that may only be half the story. There may be some other factors leading to the decision. Unfortunately, we will never know. Hopefully, the problem is gone for once and all. It would be terrible if the company is required to recall the phone down the line.
The Galaxy A23 4G doesn’t seem to have any such problem
Samsung also has a 4G-only Galaxy A23 model. It arrived on the market a few months earlier than its 5G sibling. Precisely speaking, the 4G model debuted in March of this year. It features a slightly more powerful processor that doesn’t support 5G. It also has a 90Hz display refresh rate instead of 120Hz, though the rest of the display specs are unchanged. Perhaps pretty much everything else remains the same. However, the unspecified problem on the Galaxy A23 5G that caused headaches to Samsung doesn’t exist on the 4G model. That means it will likely proceed with the initial plan of selling 17.1 million units of the latter this year. That’s almost seven percent of the company’s revised annual smartphone sales target for 2022. No wonder a bulk of Samsung’s smartphone revenue comes from the Galaxy A lineup, though the Galaxy S series flagships and Galaxy Z series foldables usually get more media attention.
