We already know that Samsung had quite a remarkable run last year managing to grab the #2 spot in the global mobile phone scene, but their impressive performance doesn’t just end there.
Aside from consistently being #1 in Canada for Q3 and Q4 of 2008, Samsung also now lays claim to owning 25% of all touchscreen phones in the market today. More specifically, the Samsung Omnia i900 has 18% of the smartphone market in Germany, 17% in France, and a still respectable 15% in Italy. The Samsun F480 also continues to be quite a cash cow as they still ship, at the very least, 500K units a month despite it being a bit outdated already. Of course, their dominance in the touchscreen phone industry is largely a result of their continuous effort to flood the market with touchscreen phones which, to this very day, remains to be unmatched even by runner-up LG
True, Apple may have started the whole touchscreen craze that we know of today thanks to the iPhone, but it seems that Samsung is reaping all the benefits of it at the moment.
