14 DAY TRIAL // Slowly but surely, Samsung is gaining more ground on the mobile phone market, greatly helped by its smartphone lineup, a quite impressive one, that's for sure.
The company managed to impress a lot of end-users with its latest flagship handsets running under Google's Android operating system, and might impress even more of them before the end of the ongoing year.
With handsets like Galaxy S and its successor, the Galaxy S II, Samsung might indeed win the hearts of a large number of users, which should help it sell over 60 million smart devices before 2011 is over.
Apparently, this is the sales target the Samsung confirmed recently during an interview with the Yonhap News Agency.
“We will likely sell more than 60 million smartphones this year,” Shin Jong-kyun, president of Samsung's mobile communications and digital imaging, stated.
“The Galaxy S2 has been well-received not only in Korea, but also in Japan, Europe and other regions, and responses to other smartphones have been positive as well.”
This is the same estimate that Samsung made back in February regarding its smartphone shipments. At that time, the company said that it was expecting total mobile phone shipments of over 300 million this year.
Last year, Samsung managed to sell a number of more than 280 million cell phones, with 25 million smartphones included among them.
“For the first time, Samsung's cell phone sales will top 300 million this year. It is a very meaningful and important event,” Shin said.
“To meet the goal, Samsung should manufacture and sell 1 million phones on a daily average and secure components for 1 million handsets every day, which isn't an easy task.”
In addition to Android, Samsung will also bring to the market a new range of bada handsets, some of which should make a debut at the IFA conference in September in Berlin.