10 million smartphones sold in the Galaxy S4 month - Wyborcza.biz

Samsung Galaxy drives sales (Photo by Lee Jin -man AP)

Galaxy S4 entered the markets on April 27 of this year. Polish premiere took place on the same day. Since that time, all over the world into the hands of customers already hit 10 million units of the phone – Samsung provides. It’s a Korean record company.

previous version, the Galaxy SIII, launched last year, sales reached that level only after 50 days. Galaxy S II after five months, and the Galaxy S after seven. Galaxy S4 is sold in 110 countries, the target will be the 155th It has a 5-inch AMOLED screen and tempt customers such futuristic features like phone service gestures performed in the air, or the ability to stop the film by turning vision.

Class=”txt_srodtytul”> great run Samsung

Excellent results confirm the sale of a new gadget and a stronger position in the Korean company. The company recently announced excellent first quarter financial results. As usually the weakest period for the IT industry group net profit increased by 41.6 per cent. The company earned 7.15 trillion won (about 6.4 billion dollars.). Operating profit in the same period increased by 54 per cent., And sales by 17 percent. to 52.9 trillion won.

Samsung explained the massive increase profits very good sales of previous models of smartphones, the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note. According to analyst firm IDC largest cell manufacturer in the world increased its share of the global smartphone market to 28.8 percent. with 32.7 per cent. Samsung sold from January to March more than four consecutive smartphone manufacturers.

Apple is slowly falling behind?

Galaxy S4 aroused great interest not only among customers, but also competitors. Apple has managed to give Samsung to court for alleged violation of the new model of five of its patents.

For the moment, it seems that Apple’s biggest rival Samsung, nothing to worry about. Theoretically, the latest model of its flagship product the iPhone 5 continues to sell a lot better. Only during the first weekend after the launch to customers hit 5 million iPhone 5 and the sale of 10 million need only a week. These results, however, do not help Americans maintain market share. Apple controls only about 17.3 percent. the global market for advanced cell. This result is close to half of the existing shares of Samsung. A year ago, Apple had a much larger share of the pie – 23 percent.