14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just announced a new milestone that its Galaxy S II smartphone has managed to achieve.
The company’s flagship device was sold in more than 20 million units to date, which is a remarkable record for a single mobile phone.
Galaxy S II was unveiled to the world in February last year, but arrived on shelves only in April 2011.
In the ten months that have passed since, the device proved to be one of the best and fastest selling mobile phones in Samsung’s lineup.
This milestone also makes Galaxy S II faster selling than its predecessor, the Galaxy S, which was sold in over 22 million units to date, Samsung announced.
The handset vendor also announced that Galaxy S II managed to sell over one million units in only 24 days after being launched, and that it reached the five million mark in three months.
The first ten million Galaxy S II units were sold in five months after the initial release, the mobile phone maker notes.
Galaxy S II was made available for purchase last year with a large 4.3-inch touchscreen display and with a dual-core application processor inside. It was one of the slimmest devices launched last year, measuring only 8mm at its thinner point.
This year, Samsung is expected to bring to shelves the successor of Galaxy S II. In fact, the company has already confirmed plans to make this unveiling. It runs Android 2.3 and should get a taste of Android 4.0 soon.
Rumor has it that this phone would be called Galaxy S III, and that it might be announced to the world in less than a month, on March 15th.
Samsung has not confirmed that until now, but it did say that the mobile phone would be launched in the first half of the current year. However, it will not make an appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.