Samsung Galaxy Note10+ now made in Bangladesh

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12:00 AM, February 06, 2020 / LAST MODIFIED: 03:40 AM, February 06, 2020
Samsung Galaxy Note10+ now made in Bangladesh
The flagship device now cheaper for local assembly
Muhammad Zahidul Islam
https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/samsung-galaxy-note10-now-made-bangladesh-1864126

South Korean tech giant Samsung recently made Bangladesh swell with pride after it started manufacturing its flagship smart device Galaxy Note10+ in its local plant, in a testament of the massive technological advancement of the country’s mobile device assembling industry.

The Note10+ has been designed like a computer, a gaming console and a movie-tech camera, and comes with an intelligent pen.

“No doubt this is the most sophisticated handset produced in the country,” said Mohammad Mesbah Uddin, chief marketing officer of Fair Electronics, Samsung’s local assembly partner.

The first batch of locally assembled Note10+ from Fair Electronics’ 58,000 square feet state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Narsingdi was delivered to the market in the first week of January.

Thanks to local assembly, the flagship Samsung device became Tk 31,300 cheaper: it is now selling at Tk 113,000.

All 1,500 units in the first batch has already been sold out.

“We received tremendous response from the market,” said Uddin, who is also the joint secretary of the Bangladesh Mobile Phone Importers Association.

And the overwhelming response has convinced Fair Electronics to assemble the Note10 Lite, another top-notch handset.

Fair Electronics, which started assembling Samsung handsets last year, has so far churned out 20 lakh units of 4G-enabled smartphones.

Some 25 Samsung models of Samsung handsets have been assembled at the plant.

“We will now move to assembling more sophisticated handset models. Gradually, all the high-end models will be manufactured in our plant.”

The incredulous development is courtesy of a policy swerve in fiscal 2017-18: a good number of licences were offered for mobile assembly plants. Nine have sprung up so far.

Fair Electronics is now assembling about 97 per cent of all Samsung devices sold in Bangladesh and expects to suspend importing after March as its local plant is capable of meeting the domestic demand entirely.

This year, the company is aiming to assemble 25 lakh units of smartphones.

The company is now adding about 35 per cent value to its products, and within the next few years the value addition will go up to 45 per cent as it plans to set up a PCBA motherboard manufacturing system.

The quality of the locally made devices is, in some cases, better than that of the imported ones, said Muyeedur Rahman, head of mobile at Samsung Mobile Bangladesh.

“The quality has improved significantly. Which is why we are offering 120 days of replacement warranty for the devices,” he added.

Samsung is now taking preparation to manufacture tablets locally.

Fair Electronics is also manufacturing several models of Samsung home appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, microwave ovens and televisions in different units on the Narsingdi plant premises. A unit to manufacture washing machines is on the way, too.

 

[GHALIB]

Home Business
12:00 AM, February 06, 2020 / LAST MODIFIED: 03:40 AM, February 06, 2020
Samsung Galaxy Note10+ now made in Bangladesh
The flagship device now cheaper for local assembly
Muhammad Zahidul Islam
https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/samsung-galaxy-note10-now-made-bangladesh-1864126

South Korean tech giant Samsung recently made Bangladesh swell with pride after it started manufacturing its flagship smart device Galaxy Note10+ in its local plant, in a testament of the massive technological advancement of the country’s mobile device assembling industry.

The Note10+ has been designed like a computer, a gaming console and a movie-tech camera, and comes with an intelligent pen.

“No doubt this is the most sophisticated handset produced in the country,” said Mohammad Mesbah Uddin, chief marketing officer of Fair Electronics, Samsung’s local assembly partner.

The first batch of locally assembled Note10+ from Fair Electronics’ 58,000 square feet state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Narsingdi was delivered to the market in the first week of January.

Thanks to local assembly, the flagship Samsung device became Tk 31,300 cheaper: it is now selling at Tk 113,000.

All 1,500 units in the first batch has already been sold out.

“We received tremendous response from the market,” said Uddin, who is also the joint secretary of the Bangladesh Mobile Phone Importers Association.

And the overwhelming response has convinced Fair Electronics to assemble the Note10 Lite, another top-notch handset.

Fair Electronics, which started assembling Samsung handsets last year, has so far churned out 20 lakh units of 4G-enabled smartphones.

Some 25 Samsung models of Samsung handsets have been assembled at the plant.

“We will now move to assembling more sophisticated handset models. Gradually, all the high-end models will be manufactured in our plant.”

The incredulous development is courtesy of a policy swerve in fiscal 2017-18: a good number of licences were offered for mobile assembly plants. Nine have sprung up so far.

Fair Electronics is now assembling about 97 per cent of all Samsung devices sold in Bangladesh and expects to suspend importing after March as its local plant is capable of meeting the domestic demand entirely.

This year, the company is aiming to assemble 25 lakh units of smartphones.

The company is now adding about 35 per cent value to its products, and within the next few years the value addition will go up to 45 per cent as it plans to set up a PCBA motherboard manufacturing system.

The quality of the locally made devices is, in some cases, better than that of the imported ones, said Muyeedur Rahman, head of mobile at Samsung Mobile Bangladesh.

“The quality has improved significantly. Which is why we are offering 120 days of replacement warranty for the devices,” he added.

Samsung is now taking preparation to manufacture tablets locally.

Fair Electronics is also manufacturing several models of Samsung home appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, microwave ovens and televisions in different units on the Narsingdi plant premises. A unit to manufacture washing machines is on the way, too.

very nice , it will attract more electronic products manufacturing in bangladesh.

 

[LeGenD]

Very impressive.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Samsung note is my favourite series. Using samsung note 4 from four years, i just changed battery and charger after 3 years, it still works like charm. About, made in bangldesh , I think price will further decrease in Bangladesh.

 

[UKBengali]

@bluesky

This is actual evidence of how sophisticated factory work is taking off in BD.

Although there is a lot that needs to be done, we should always see all the good things that are happening in BD as a result of the policies of the AL government.

 

[bluesky]

@bluesky

This is actual evidence of how sophisticated factory work is taking off in BD.

Although there is a lot that needs to be done, we should always see all the good things that are happening in BD as a result of the policies of the AL government.

But, the issue is, will @Nilgiri believe it is happening in BD? He may well claim these are not hi-fi mobile sets but are plastic toys.

 

[Michael Corleone]

But, the issue is, will @Nilgiri believe it is happening in BD? He may well claim these are not hi-fi mobile sets but are plastic toys.

I just put that *** hemorrhoid on ignore for this reason

 

[UKBengali]

But, the issue is, will @Nilgiri believe it is happening in BD? He may well claim these are not hi-fi mobile sets but are plastic toys.

Skill level of BD factory workers will be good enough now for both Samsung and other electronic giants to set up factories in BD to allow them to export overseas.

BD has all the ingredients now for mass FDI in the electronics sector - skilled workforce, political stability, infrastructure and relatively low wages.

 

[Nilgiri]

But, the issue is, will @Nilgiri believe it is happening in BD? He may well claim these are not hi-fi mobile sets but are plastic toys.

Why ask me? Simply look at the WTO figures of what was claimed by BD media (for any simple good of note past RMG) and what the actual reality is in the end for the vaunted production and exports.

Refrigerators, motorcycles, electronics...anything...the data is clear in the end between projection and reality.

Deep down we all know what type of people you are...the ones that call their restaurants "Indian" to even have a chance at earning something more than a Haitian in actual level playing field developed free market. That is how inherently weak, stupid and shameless you lot are...and always will be.

Your country is now entering a new phase of failure soon due to over-reliance and over-dependency on one model:

https://www.dhakatribune.com/business/economy/2020/02/04/bangladesh-exports-fall-by-1-70-in-january

With China still exporting 150 billion in RMG and you having full tariff free access to Europe (unlike them by 15% or more) and grand tariff advantage over them for US similarly....your RMG exports are shrinking....instead of growing by what your own lot projected (5 - 10 billion or more a year, that you should be easily eating into China's exports in the sector). Instead you hit the ceiling this early already....suggesting something way serious is going on that your 95% mandate BCL-voting booth govt needs increasing smoke and mirrors now to cover up best it can.

Have you seen what its been doing to your already malnourished total market cap (i.e something that can be brought to book unlike the 3 million 95% seat shonar govt)?

You had one job, ONE JOB... with the LDC beggar crying quota 0-tarrifs and you failed at that. And now you want to talk about smartphones which you lot can barely buy in first place (want the final numbers on that, it will just make you cry).

Really, no one gives a crap about 1% assembly value add to get around some hagseena brothel tarriff in some perfunctory way for BD media optics. Maybe her acolytes can launder all this tariff-based 1% policy into the "growth" as well

 

[Bilal9]

I just put that *** hemorrhoid on ignore for this reason

Bravo brother - I hope all Bangladeshis start to 'ignore' this moron, that way no one sees his pointless comments.

We don't want any time-wasting troll-thread $hitshows in this place.

 

[UKBengali]

Bravo brother - I hope all Bangladeshis start to 'ignore' this moron, that way no one sees his pointless comments.

We don't want any time-wasting troll-thread $hitshows in this place.

Just put that boring butthurt on ignore.

 

[bluesky]

Skill level of BD factory workers will be good enough now for both Samsung and other electronic giants to set up factories in BD to allow them to export overseas.

BD has all the ingredients now for mass FDI in the electronics sector - skilled workforce, political stability, infrastructure and relatively low wages.

Exactly. If BD were full of an illiterate group of people, a world-class company like Samsung would never have ventured in Bangladesh. Its expectations have been fully reciprocated by our young generation.

I think the news will spread among all other investors that will make BD a destination for many other high technology FDIs.

Why ask me? Simply look at the WTO figures of what was claimed by BD media (for any simple good of note past RMG) and what the actual reality is in the end for the vaunted production and exports.

Refrigerators, motorcycles, electronics...anything...the data is clear in the end between projection and reality.

Deep down we all know what type of people you are...the ones that call their restaurants "Indian" to even have a chance at earning something more than a Haitian in actual level playing field developed free market. That is how inherently weak, stupid and shameless you lot are...and always will be.

Your country is now entering a new phase of failure soon due to over-reliance and over-dependency on one model:

https://www.dhakatribune.com/business/economy/2020/02/04/bangladesh-exports-fall-by-1-70-in-january

With China still exporting 150 billion in RMG and you having full tariff free access to Europe (unlike them by 15% or more) and grand tariff advantage over them for US similarly....your RMG exports are shrinking....instead of growing by what your own lot projected (5 - 10 billion or more a year, that you should be easily eating into China's exports in the sector). Instead you hit the ceiling this early already....suggesting something way serious is going on that your 95% mandate BCL-voting booth govt needs increasing smoke and mirrors now to cover up best it can.

Have you seen what its been doing to your already malnourished total market cap (i.e something that can be brought to book unlike the 3 million 95% seat shonar govt)?

You had one job, ONE JOB... with the LDC beggar crying quota 0-tarrifs and you failed at that. And now you want to talk about smartphones which you lot can barely buy in first place (want the final numbers on that, it will just make you cry).

Really, no one gives a crap about 1% assembly value add to get around some hagseena brothel tarriff in some perfunctory way for BD media optics. Maybe her acolytes can launder all this tariff-based 1% policy into the "growth" as well

However, you will accept that after WALTON, Samsung is another name that has branded itself with Bangladesh. By the way, some bad people are writing that the Indian 3rd quarter GDP growth is below 3.5%. What are you going to do to fix the problem?

Your Chaiwala Modi is indulging himself with catching CAA and NRC ghosts that are not there in India to camouflage his failure in the economy. People are retrenched.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

ah,good job.

 

[UKBengali]

However, you will accept that after WALTON, Samsung is another name that has branded itself with Bangladesh. By the way, some bad people are writing that the Indian 3rd quarter GDP growth is below 3.5%. What are you going to do to fix the problem?

Your Chaiwala Modi is indulging himself with catching CAA and NRC ghosts that are not there in India to camouflage his failure in the economy. People are retrenched.

I hope you are not trying to engage in honest debate with the butt-hurt.
If you notice most of his former troll friends are nowhere to be seen as nearly everyone accepts that BD economic growth is real now.
He seems to have developed a personal grudge against BD and so you will hit a brick wall if you try to reason with him.

 

[mmr]

I hope you are not trying to engage in honest debate with the butt-hurt.
If you notice most of his former troll friends are nowhere to be seen as nearly everyone accepts that BD economic growth is real now.
He seems to have developed a personal grudge against BD and so you will hit a brick wall if you try to reason with him.

It will take some more time before ppl accept bd economic progress. Bd government has to keep providing incentive in terms of tax to force setting up plant in bd. Just look at cell phone makers 2018 they change tax within 2 years 9 plant set up! And more are coming. This is unbelievably fast response from private sector.

Dont give tax break to everyone. It should be based on value additions. More value added less tax. Bd can easily implement it if it ignore lobby from importers.