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Live from Samsung's 'Unpacked' event at IFA 2014!
Samsung may have already announced a smartwatch that can make phone calls (and also one covered in Swarovski crystals), but that doesn't mean it's showing up to IFA empty-handed. The company is holding its annual "Unpacked" press event today, where it'll almost certainly unveil a new Galaxy Note phone, like it has every year since 2011. Who knows? We may also see that forthcoming virtual reality headset we've been reading so much about. Something tells us, though, that you won't be seeing another Samsung smartwatch so soon. We don't think so, anyway.
Samsung's announcing a bunch of new products today, get your liveblog here!
The headline says it all, really: Samsung is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, companies here at IFA, and it's about to unveil some shiny new stuff. Join us at 9AM ET today as the tech giant holds its annual "Unpacked" event. Will we see a new Galaxy Note? Maybe that leaked virtual reality headset? Another smartwatch? We'll be on the ground in Berlin, reporting live -- and you can bet your Galaxy S5 that we'll be getting hands-on afterward. Bookmark our liveblog, and meet us there in exactly one hour. Be there or be square. September 3, 2014 9:00:00 AM EDT
Samsung has sold more than 200 million Galaxy S smartphones
Want to know how big a player Samsung is in the smartphone market? The company now says that it's sold over 200 million Galaxy S phones since the line first went on the market in 2010. For reference, the Korean tech giant had notched up sales of 100 million Galaxy S devices as of slightly more than a year ago. Samsung isn't breaking down the sales by model, although it had sold over 40 million Galaxy S 4s as of last fall -- much of that 200 million clearly came from more recent customers. It's difficult to compare the data against other manufacturers, since few of them break out sales by range. Apple, for example, said that it shipped 700 million iOS devices of all kinds as of October. However, it's safe to say that Samsung remains a heavyweight at the high end of the smartphone market.
