The Samsung Galaxy Fold 5G phone. The South Korean tech giant teased the new folding concept at the Samsung Developer Conference 2019 in the US. — Reuters
SEOUL: Samsung's plan to outsource a fifth of its smartphone production to China next year may help it compete with low-cost rivals such as Huawei and Xiaomi but it's a strategy fraught with risks, people with familiar with the move said.
Samsung Electronics, which shut its last in-house Chinese smartphone factory in October, is quietly moving production of some Galaxy A models to contractors such as Wingtech, which are little known outside China.
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