300 Million Samsung Phones Sold in 2011

Samsung – the famous South Korean smartphone manufacturer – claims it has sold more than 300 million phones in 2011. Till today only Nokia has ever managed to sell such a big number of devices in only 12 months.

At the first glance, 300 million seems to be a huge number, and some of you may think Samsung has probably exaggerated or mixed up something. To tell the truth, that was what I first thought when I read about this. 300 million Samsung phones worldwide… too many! But then I remembered about the Samsung Galaxy S2, which was released in April 2011 and stays one of the most popular smartphones up to now, leading most of top charts. It’s armed with the most powerful features available at the current market, it’s fast, it’s cool and it’s popular.

Several months ago Samsung announced that the Galaxy S2 had reached 10 million sales much faster than any other phone, even Apple’s iPhone. However, we should remember that 20 million iPhones were sold only in the third quarter of 2011, and the sales of the new iPhone 4S have reached 4 million in only three days, so it’s not that the S2 has no competitors at all.

But anyway, we shouldn’t ignore the fact that at least three of Samsung’s phones always find their place in almost all top 10 smartphones’ charts (in the “Best phones of 2011” chart of cnet.co.uk, for example, you can see the Galaxy Ace and the Galaxy Nexus, and the Galaxy S2 is the number one).

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is on its way now, and the Galaxy Nexus has received a lot of good reviews; this makes me think that in the coming 2012 Samsung will sell even more smartphones than this year. What do you think, which will be the next number for Samsung? 350 million? Or even more?

Why I will get the Droid Bionic

I am planning to get the Droid Bionic on its release day. I currently have an Original Droid 1 (OG) and my contract expired a few months ago. I have been paitently been waiting for the release of a 4G dual core phone for Verizon.

There were rumors that the Bionic was supposed to land in June or July and I got really excited to upgrade. After it was rumored that the bionic would not be released until September I was disappointed. I wanted to upgrade and was annoyed by all the delays by Motorola. I searched for other new phones to be released and found out about the Samsung Galaxy 2, HTC Vigor, and Nexus Prime were all dual core phones and were coming out in the near future.

I was thinking of getting the Samsung Galaxy 2 but rumors are out today that it won't be available for Verizon.  The Nexus Prime is also just in rumor phase and it supposed to be realeased in October but even if it is, there is no guarantee that it will be on Verizon. And for the HTC Vigor..I haven't even seen a picture of this device.

With that being said let me also say the Bionic will be a beast of a device. I am really excited for it for a few reasons.

1) First Dual Core 4G LTE device
2) awesome battery life
3) speed

Let me know what upcoming phone(s) you are planning to get in the comments.