According to a report by the Korean Economic Daily, since its launch in London at the beginning of the month, the Samsung Galaxy SIII has already generated up to 9 million pre-orders from over 100 global carriers, reports Reuters.
The latest version of Samsung’s flagship phone will first go on sale in Germany on 29 May, shortly followed by a number of other countries.
An unidentified Samsung official cited as supplying the information also revealed that the Samsung factory’s production line in Korea was working to develop 5 million Galaxy SIII units per month in order to meet the international demand.
It remains to be seen if the Galaxy device will be as successful as its predecessor, the Galaxy SII, which resulted in 20 million shipments in just 10 months. At the moment, its 9 million pre-order figure, places it almost half way.
While Samsung declined to comment, last month, the company did say that the new Galaxy SIII would “substantially contribute” to its second-quarter earnings.
Among its many features, the new smartphone offers a 4.8-inch PenTile Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution, 8-megapixel primary and 1.9-megapixel front-facing cameras, Bluetooth 4.0 support, GPS with GLONASS reception and a quad-core Exynos CPU.
Samsung beat Apple as the world’s biggest smartphone maker in the first quarter of 2012, with the help of its line-up of Galaxy named devices running on Google’s free Android software.
Source: The Next Web
