14 DAY TRIAL // Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced officially that it managed to sell a number of more than 10 million Galaxy S smartphones, and also confirmed that it accounts for a big chunk of Android shipments out there. Over all, 34 percent of Android handsets being sent to end users out there come from this company, which is pretty impressive.
Of course, the big star here is the Samsung Galaxy S, which sold 5 million units during the fourth quarter of the last year alone, and which went from 8 million to 10 million units during the past four weeks or so.
However, the handset was helped by other Android-based devices from Samsung as well, including the newly released Galaxy Tab tablet PC, or the lower-end Galaxy 5 and Galaxy 3 devices.
Even so, when compared to the beginning of the last year, when Samsung had only two Andorid-based handsets available for purchase on shelves, the original Galaxy and the Galaxy Spica, the figure is impressive.
Since Android is on an ascending curve at the moment, all vendors offering devices powered by this OS are enjoying significant gains on the market.
Most probably, the company will manage to grow even more, especially with the launch of Nexus S and with the upcoming rumored availability of a successor for Galaxy S, though other vendors will certainly deliver appealing devices too, to slow Samsung's growth down.
The increasing shipments of Android phones from Samsung helped the mobile platform grow as well, and to move even closer to Apple's iOS in the US market, where it currently holds the first position.
At the same time, these sales are expected to help Samsung move closer to Nokia on the smartphone market, and they might even push it to the first position in case the Finnish vendor does not come up with a response in the near future.
As UnwiredView notes, Samsung is also focused on two other mobile platforms out there, namely bada and Windows Phone 7, and these would certainly prove beneficial for the vendor as well.