LG, Samsung have both sold over 20m touchscreen phones
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 18th 2009 5:37PM
posted May 18th 2009 5:37PM
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That's not an iPhone.
Yay! good boy
You get a cookie!
AHAHAH 20M non-iPhones?
Your move Apple...
apple sold 12 million by itself... it takes 2 of the worlds leading mobile manufacturers to compete... STEVE JOBS FTW!!!
murmermer, Apple has sold 21 million iPhones.
And from what I'm reading, LG and Samsung sold 20 million a piece, so it would be 40 million combined.
@murmermer, uhh that was 20mil each, not total so they both sold more than Apple.
murmermer, can you read?
The article says "both" companies sold over 20 million; meaning each company sold over 20 million, or a total (of the two companies) of over 40 million. Either you are an Apple fanboy or you cannot comprehend the English language. I think the latter is the correct choice.
@murmermer
I hope Apple invents reading comprehension soon.
sorry guys
I had a case of "selective reading"...
LG and Samsung say, "All your touchscreen are belong to US!"
NOTHING SAMSUNG or LG have even measure up to the iPhone.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT LOW RANKS.
Truth is, iPhone - despite being sold exclusively on AT&T and a handful of other networks in other countries is not only the better phone, but, would be UNSTOPPABLE if they offered a CDMA version right now.
Really? Why is it being outsold in Europe by the 5800 and LG and Samsung's offerings then?
Why did I get downranked. I am a proud T-Mobile HTC Hero/G1 owner. Please don't interpret that joke as iPhone fanboyism =(
damned apple fanboys, cant you just let Samsung and LG bask in their glory for a moment?
and, i forgot to add this, but has anyone noticed that theres like 7 posts from applefanboy777?
theyre all using copy and paste.
damned troll
How many iphones have been sold? just curious how samsung is competing with apple.
@Schweppes
Multiple personality disorder?
Such a shame.
P.S. What kind of vaginas do you get to see?
@alex
An article I read last week said as of March Apple had moved 17million iphones.
21 million iPhones and 16 million iPod touches.
@Schweppes:
First of all i'm no fan of the iPhone. But that so called argument could also be applied to the unknown numbers of Samsungs and LGs that have been returned.
I'm waiting for the Samsung i8910 HD, it looks like one of the best phones ever.
wow all of those phones and i cant think of the name of a single one.
Samsung I think of the Omnia, and LG I think of the iPhone prototype aka the LG Prada.
@Dillinger
You would have had to live in a cave for the last 2 years not have heard of any LG or Samsung touchscreen phones.
Think. Then type (optional).
The Samsung Tocco will have accounted for millions of those.
Yeah, exactly. And look at all the money Apple dumps into marketing and advertising. You can't name a single Samsung or LG, yet they've sold as many.
I just got an LG Voyager, so I'm getting a kick...
Seriously, I didn't think I'd like a non-iPhone touch screen (not to mention the upfront and monthly costs), but the Voyager is growing on me. Considering I used to have basic flip phones, it's the best phone I've ever owned.
now that the phones are starting to get better interfaces and are much more usable i imagine these numbers will get much better.
its also funny to me that, though the iphone didnt invent the touchscreen, it's the one that really pushed a lot of these companies to start putting out more models and better innovation, we can thank them for that at least.
It's mainly due to the fact they just keep on churning out new models.
Thank God some is actually thinking! What samsung and lg omit is how many of EACH model has been sold. There are 3 models of the iphone out and they've sold about 21 mil. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_iphones_have_been_sold
Now someone do me a favor and tell me what touchscreen model has matched them in sales in the same timeframe.
this would be an honest comparison...
Well the LG Viewty sold 6.5 million which of course can't top the iphones but I mean it's definitely not bad. I might love the iPhone just as much as you do, although I own a G1, but there's no need to say that the other phones companies aren't producing capable phones..
I do admit though that I wish some of the newer touch screen phones would come with a more user friendly OS. Android is great, but pre cupcake it felt like beta software.. and then there's the all too popular OS X, but besides those two eehhh..
But if you like your Symbian and WinMo then I'm glad you have your own opinions but for me I just don't find them as user-friendly. On the positive side, they can be a lot more functional though, but for me I'll take the ease of use while I can still use my netbook for everything else =]
HTC FTW.
you tease me with a i8910 picture
:-(
why?
:-(
they'll never bring it over here and i want a US warranty as on my E71
:-(
Well done. Nokia has sold less than 5M.
How many touchscreen phones do nokia sell again ?
Duh... Thats because Nokia launched their first touch phone (Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic) 4months ago compared to samsung and LG which have released a dozen or more touch phones b/w 2007 and 2009.
@Major4Play:
All what they have managed to develope in past two years: One (isn't really touchphone with resistive screen and stylus).
@Major4Play
But at least the Nokia 5800 sells like hotcakes... Sold out in Russia in less than 24hrs, Sold out in the UK (its sells so fast that you'll have to wait 2-3weeks before getting one), currently selling close to 2 million units every month and it is UK's No. 1 selling portable music player, trumping the ipod classic, ipod touch and iphone.
Sorry the above comment was meant for BFish
A phone with a resistive touchscreen and a stylus doesn't count as a touchphone? Seriously?
See, coming up with these stupid idiosyncratic definitions is what has left the word "smartphone" all but meaningless, now you want to redefine "touchphone" to exclude most phones with touch screens?
And some of us (I admit not all, and maybe it's just a tiny minority) like the stylus and are sad to see it go...
This site is a bit obsessed with cell phones... Just sayin,... the site should be called cellgadget.
they love comparing everything to apple products..esp ifone.
Sorry Sammy, but my Glyde does not count as a touchscreen phone. It's more like a poke-yell-poke-yell-reboot-poke-throw-stab phone.
Shall I remind you that Sony-Ericsson has been selling touch-screen smartphones for some years now, the P-series.
Some people complained a lot about their Symbian UIQ OS. But to be honest after using it for two years now and I think this OS is rock solid. Much more stable than Nokia's S60.
Touch screen capabilities are far away from the Iphone, but than again, touch screens were more of a niche when these phones were around.
I own a P1i.
...in Soviet Russia, touchscreen phones sold LG and Sammy!!!
And Immersion haptic/vibration feedback has been in each and every one of those 40 mil.
Nokia 5800 and N97 too.
When are force feedback cell games coming?
Wow so more than iPhone , not bad.
Amazing how many people settle for inferior wannabee devices.,
I sane!!!
Yeah I know!
Over 17 million iPhones sold. I mean, what there they thinking?
I'm not an iPhone fan or anything but both Samsung and LG's touchscreen offering blow hard for the most part.
Touchscreen is the future. It's coming to computers now. I don't want to see this. Think of all of the fingerprints.
http://jamesmsingleton.com
Fanboyism aside
What is superior instinct dare or iPhone,.,.???
I don't want any of those three, to be honest.
Just look at that tacky OS in that man's hand. Enough BS about how crappy the iPhone is. At least Palm is getting deep knee burns over it!!!
Why even talk about anything but the iPhone?! I just installed this new brainwash app and Apple is the best. These dead pixels on my phone are not real, a 120 gb hard and 1gb of memory is more then enough, and... oops gotta go. The app is telling me to go to the Apple Store..
iPhone FTW!
Anyone else think 20 meter when they seen the title?
Bet half of those sales came from that crappy Tocco thing Samsung make.
you guys wats up with you we the phone that could be the iphone killer which is the samsung behold... they have been saying for a while so i guess the phone company doing the best as of right now is SAMSUNG... y you ask?... cuz recently samsung has been releasing a lot of touch screen phones that are doing great. so you are still doubting samsung?