Samsung: Our mobile division will grow 19% this year
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 3:58 AM PST In Samsung
Samsung expects that its handset shipments grow 19% to more than 270 million units this year, helped by demand for smartphones. In other words, that’s more than double that of the industry, according to the company’s president of the mobile-communication division – J.K. Shin.
Last year, Samsung shipped 227 million mobile phones and this year their big bet is on smartphones – the plan is to go from 2009’s 6 million devices to 18 million. In addition, the Korean company also plans to cover other market segments.
There are some merits to these numbers as global sales of smartphones are set to increase 32% in 2010 and further expand 34% next year, according to the research firm ISuppli. The overall global handset market will grow 10% to reach 1.2 billion units (Morgan Stanley) and Samsung, unsurprisingly, wants to monetize on the trend…
[Via: Bloomberg]
I tell you what, if they keep doing what they are doing, they will FAIL so bad they don’t believe it. and I’m referring to the worst customer service thousands experienced because of the Samsung Galaxy lack of support, sorry did I say lack? No support at all.
I would say that if there will be no support and no update to Android 2.0 for Samsung i7500 Galaxy they will not grow at all in long term
I second that. If Samsung doesn´t show a little bit of respect regarding their customers, by launching at least an Android 2.0 update, then it will sink like Titanic.