Samsung has revealed it’s broken its previous record for mobile phone sales, having sold more than 300 million phones in 2011.
This is pretty impressive, especially when you pause to consider this means an average of almost 820,000 Samsung phones sold per day during 2011 – or 34,000 per hour, 570 a minute, or an average of 9 sales a second!
In addition to high-end devices, its more affordable handsets have contributed to the strong sales in 2011, which include the Galaxy S Plus, Galaxy R, Galaxy W and Galaxy Y phones.
Last year, the company shifted 280 million handsets – which it managed to top this year, in part thanks to the success of the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones.
The original Samsung Galaxy S phone was launched last year and became one of the hottest handsets on the market. In October 2011, Samsung announced almost 20 million units of the Galaxy S had been sold, and that its successor, launched in April this year, had hit the 10 million mark in record time. From its launch to the October announcement, one Galaxy S II had sold every second!
Admitting the Galaxy range of devices made a difference to overall sales, Samsung has expressed its delight with how this year has gone.
JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business, said: “We look forward to extending this success going into 2012.”
And the company is right to be optimistic about next year too, revealing its next-generation Exynos 5250 2GHz chip last month. With twice the power of a standard dual-core processor – even twice the speed of the S II – and four-times the 3D graphics performance, there’s excitement about the new chip-fuelled smartphones and tablets, which are expected to be launching during IFA in February.
Next year looks promising for smartphone fans in general, as HTC is also set to release the HTC Edge loaded with its quad-core Nvidia AP30 Tegra chip.
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