Sales of Samsung's touchscreen mobile phones top 50 mln

SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second largest
mobile phone maker, said Tuesday overall sales of its full touchscreen mobile
phones have surpassed 50 million units so far this year.
Samsung Electronics said it shipped its 50 millionth full touchscreen mobile
phone at the end of November. It added that it has sold 40 million units out of
the total from January through November.
Samsung has sold its largest share of full touch devices in Europe with 19
million units, followed by the United States with 6.3 million and China with 3.4
million. It has sold 3.0 million in its home market of South Korea.
"Samsung is on track to exceed its 2009 sales target of 200 million mobile
phones, with full touch models accounting for approximately 20 percent of mobiles
sold," the company said in a statement, adding that those models made up around 5
percent of its sales in 2008.
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