Documents filed by Samsung lawyers on Thursday reveal that from June 2010 through June 2012 Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, generating $7.5 billion in revenue. On the tablet side, the company sold 1.4 million Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices, producing $644 million in revenue.
That doesn’t seem like a lot of sales to me. Maybe most of their sales are international.
Yes, and a lot of those international sales are not their top of the line phones, but rather crappy “smart” phones like the Galaxy Mini. It’s an android phone, but I can’t imagine anyone using it for anything smart. Less than US$150 contract-free, it’s soft plastic, dog-slow, has a terrible camera, and web browsing is sheer torture. I have one sitting right here in a drawer. It was so miserable an experience that it made me finally cough up the >$600 for an iPhone 4S. Now I can’t imagine not having an iPhone. And yet they count equally in “smartphone” sales.
SO if samsung only sold 21.25 million phones and they are the #1 vendor for android phones, that really, really makes HTC and Motorola look bad. Their numbers are lower.