Samsung Galaxy phones up for Happy Hours sale on Amazon next week

New Delhi: In a first, Samsung India will cut the prices of some of its Galaxy smartphones ahead of Christmas as part of "Happy Hours" sale on Amazon.in on December 12.

Samsung Mobile India has tweeted:

#Christmas is around the corner and we are kick starting the festivities early on. Watch out for some amazing offers on your favourite Galaxy products. Play/Pause, and guess the launch date of the #SamsungChristmasCarnival. https://t.co/DNrrNF1hlY pic.twitter.com/vAU8JMf9KM — Samsung Mobile India (@SamsungMobileIN) December 5, 2017

The Happy Hour sale, also available on Samsung e-store, will include the Rs 8,990 Galaxy On7 Pro. For the sale, however, customers will have to register themselves.

The South Korean tech giant`s smartphone sales recorded a double-digit increase (19.3 percent) in the third quarter, market research firm Gartner said last month.

With a 22.3 percent market share, the South Korean giant pipped Apple to grab the top spot in the global smartphone sales to end users (by vendor) in the third quarter of 2017.

Apple registered a distant 11.9 percent market share while Huawei with 9.5 percent was at third spot as the global smartphone sales reached 383 million units in the third quarter.

In the second quarter, Samsung registered 20.7 percent market share while Apple had 13.7 percent, indicating a drop for the Cupertino-based giant.