Samsung plans to double its smartphone share by end of year, jump ahead of HTC and Motorola

More than 10% of worldwide smartphone market share: that's where Samsung plans to be, on triple its current handset volume, by the end of 2010 according to Lee Donjoo, senior VP of the company's Mobile Communications division. Mind you, such a jump would be staggering in terms of growth with Samsung owning less than 5% of global smartphone market share currently. A move to 10% would place them at number 4 globally according to IDC's numbers, behind Nokia, RIM, and Apple. The Android-lovin' Galaxy S / AT&T Captivate is good, but is it that good? We'll see. Regardless, the term "smartphone" can be defined many ways, and we suspect that Samsung's new Bada OS being pushed into devices previously classified as featurephones could help pad Samsung's numbers.

[flanger Posted Jun 24th 2010 12:12PM]

HTC= cheap taiwanese trash

[flanger Posted Jun 24th 2010 12:15PM]

Samsung phones are the best, if not iphone
I´ll get the Wave, great HW and sweet Software
Android is rubbish, like HTC

[LANjackal Posted Jun 24th 2010 1:35PM]

Good luck with that one, Samsung

[warmonk Posted Jun 24th 2010 1:56PM]

they can "plan" all they want. Doesn't mean it's going to happen.

[Jack99 Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:55AM]

@warmonk I think it's in every phone company's interest to pay attention to market share and focus on maintaining or increasing it. You can focus on the semantics and nuances in the word "plan." If you'd replaced the headline with "Samsung Will Move to Try Doubling Their Smartphone Market Share Even if Their Phones Aren't Made By Unicorns," it wouldn't have been any different.

Frankly, you're just being a Captain Obvious.