The Galaxy line of smartphones for South Korean based manufacturer Samsung has been a definite boon for that company. For the 4th straight quarter, Galaxy smartphones have outsold the Apple iPhone. That includes handsets like the big-screen Galaxy Note II 4G Android smartphone, which helped the Samsung Electronics Company to record fourth-quarter profits which were up 76% over that same time frame a year ago. Just exactly how does Samsung feel about their Galaxy Note II phablet? The successful smartphone recipe breaker is on display at a showroom in the company’s headquarters located in Seoul, South Korea.
Total profit for the 4th quarter of 2012 was 7.04 trillion won ($6.6 billion), and this was an impressive 76% rise from the 4.01 trillion won totaled in the 4th quarter of 2011. It is no wonder that smartphone sales growth was the key area which drove the record-breaking profits for Samsung. The Samsung Galaxy line of devices has been globally popular and financially successful, and actually helped the South Korean smartphone manufacturer overtake Apple as the top smartphone manufacturer in volume last year.
Most analysts believe that Samsung shipped more than 60 million smartphones in the last quarter of last year, for more than 200 million units over the entire year. Comparatively, Apple has stated that it sold 47.8 million iPhones in the last quarter last year. Considering the number of smartphone manufacturers available across the planet, the research from Hong Kong based Counterpoint Research regarding Samsung domination in the 4th quarter in the smartphone marketplace will probably raise more than a few eyebrows.
Their numbers show that Samsung was responsible for every 3rd smartphone shipped around the world in the 4th quarter last year. That led Samsung to finish 2012 as the leader in global smartphone shipments, with a full 30.4% of the worldwide marketplace. It certainly does not hurt your company numbers when you manufacture mobile processors for your own successful line of smartphones, and Samsung even creates mobile processors for competitors like Apple and their successful iPhone lineup.
The Galaxy Note II is the first Samsung smartphone to launch with the Jelly Bean operating system out-of-the-box, and the high-resolution 5.55 inch display is the biggest found on any smartphone. The 4G smartphone also delivers a powerful quad core central processor as well as a quad core graphics processor, and display resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels. The Galaxy Note II 4G smartphone is the 2nd Galaxy Note iteration, and returns the popular native handwriting recognition technology and smart stylus S Pen which debuted with the original Galaxy Note.
