Samsung Electronics’latest smartphone, the Galaxy S3, has surpassed the 20 million mark in the number of units sold globally 100 days after making its global debut on May 29. It means that an average of 200,000 Galaxy S3 units have been sold on a daily basis. 

Galaxy S3 joined the list of  “10 million sellers” 50 days after its release. 

Galaxy S3’s surpassing the 20 million mark in 100 days is three times faster than Galaxy S2, which saw its cumulative number of units sold shatter the 20 million mark in nine months.

The 20 million units include 6 million units in Europe, 4.5 million units in Asia, 4 million units in North America, and 2.5 million units in Korea, indicating an even regional distribution of sales in the global smartphone market. In particular, sales have picked up in such regions as North America, Europe, and China of late.  

The impressive performance of the Galaxy S3 has turned out to be the driving force behind Samsung Electronics’maintaining the No. 1 position in the global mobile and smartphone market. 

‘GALAXY S3’S NEW SMARTPHONE CONCEPT’

Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, announced the third generation Galaxy S3 in London on May 3. As described by Samsung, “It is designed for humans and inspired by nature, the Galaxy S3 is a smartphone that recognizes your voice, understands your intention, and lets you share a moment instantly and easily.”

This sleek and innovative smartphone has the enhanced intelligence to make everyday life easier. With the Samsung Galaxy S3, users can view content like never before on the device’s 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display. An 8 megapixel camera and a 1.9 megapixel front camera offer users a variety of intelligent camera features and face recognition-related options that ensure all moments are captured easily and instantly. Samsung Galaxy S3 is powered by the Android￠‚ 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS with greatly enhanced usability and practicality to make life easier. Packed with intuitive technology, the Galaxy S3 delivers a uniquely personalized mobile experience that refuses to be compromised. 

“With the Galaxy S3, Samsung has maximized consumer benefits by integrating superior hardware with enhanced smartphone usability,” said Shin Jong-kyun, president and head of the IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung. “Designed to be both effortlessly smart and intuitively simple, the Galaxy S3 has been created with our human needs and capabilities in mind. What makes me most proud is that it enables one of the most seamless, natural, and human-centric mobile experiences, opening up a new horizon that allows you to live an extraordinary life.”

Samsung Electronics officials said the Galaxy S3 is superb in its human-oriented user interface, technology, and design with a 4.8-inch high-definition Super AMOLED display.

In particular, the Galaxy S3 boasts such innovative features as the “Smart Stay,” recognizing human faces and eyes for not turning off the screen as long as you look at it,; “Direct call” for making direct calls to message senders by touching it to one’s ear; and “Smart alert” for informing the user of calls or messages during his or her absence by vibrating. 

“The Galaxy S3 is taking the lead in new changes of the global smartphone market by innovating for human beings, not technology,” a Samsung Electronics official said. He added that his company devotes itself to offering experiences different from others by continuously developing innovative products.