According To Samsung: One In Ten South Koreans Are The Proud Owner Of A Samsung Galaxy S II

January 19, 2012

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According To Samsung: One In Ten South Koreans Are The Proud Owner Of A Samsung Galaxy S II 2

Again I say, who can deny how popular and widespread Samsung's Galaxy S II is? It's pretty evident that the device spread like a wild fire upon its release both overseas and here in the good ol' US of A. I myself am a proud owner of a Galaxy S II on T-Mobile. The device is certainly without a doubt a power-horse for me as I pretty much use every Google service known to man on it along with some other day to day productive functions. Samsung aims to convey this to the masses as the company has recently revealed a few tidbits confirming the popularity of the hit device in South Korea. According to Samsung, the device sold 5 million strong since its release in April of 2011 which roughly translates to about 10% of South Korea's population (48 million users) now possessing the powerful handset. According to Tech Crunch, it's the first cell phone to reach this milestone for the mobile centric people of South Korea where the feature phone was once a dominant contender. Just to tally things up respectively, Samsung says in 2011 the company cornered 53% of the market share for South Korea's mobile industry. Say what you will, but that's pretty impressive and something to be proud of as a company. Now all the device is missing to make it top notch is a little ol' update we in the industry like to call Ice Cream Sandwich. Are you the proud owner of a GSII? What you do think about the handset?

[via Samsung Hub by Tech Crunch]

Joe Sirianni Author

Joe was born in New Jersey and spent most of his childhood moving around from state to state. He eventually made his way to Pennsylvania where he met his Portuguese beauty and made her his wife. He now has three great kids and full access to all of the Portuguese food he can eat. Joe's love for mobile technology began when he bought his first Palm Pilot, a Palm M130 and left it on top of his car, driving off, causing it to smash into a thousand pieces. Forced to buy a new device, he quickly discovered that specs were changing so rapidly he was buying a new device every six months just to keep up. Since then, he has constantly felt the need to have the latest and greatest. When the "smartphone" revolution began and integrating cell phones and PDA's was the norm, he quickly jumped to Windows Mobile for several years until the first Android device was launched, the T-Mobile G1. Joe began appreciating all of the free utilities Google provided and sold his soul (his precious data) to Google long before they got into the mobile OS business. So, there was no hesitation at all for him to jump on board and ride the Android train as an early adopter. And boy has it been a blast. Joe now works in the Engineering & Operations dept for a major mobile carrier where he remotely troubleshoots cell sites and loves being an Editor for TalkAndroid.

2 comments

Greatbigballzzz says:

April 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM

I think its really bad because it lacks some basic software support that comes with HTC or iphone, features such as automatic phone number recognition from text, zoom in/out on webpages, etc.

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Hoodhussein says:

January 19, 2012 at 8:40 PM

I’m not yet an owner of any Samsung smartphone or tablet p.c. But I’ve been following and observing seriously on every rumor and fact about all its products since a few years ago.
And now I’m getting more and more confident about Samsung’s unquestionable capability. Soon I’ll becoming the proud owner of Samsung’s smartphone and tabet.

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