Smartphones Form Book 2012 part 1: for Samsung it is 'Leadwatch'

As we headed into 2010, I predicted the smartphone wars would heat up and I labeled the year one of Bloodbath. And we had both carnage and intensified competition.

Among the early casualties in 2010, we saw the end of Palm (bought by HP) and Microsoft's Kin. And Google killed its Nexus One but changed its mind, and came back again with more Nexus by end of year. We saw the launches of bada from Samsung and Windows Phone from Microsoft, to replace its older Windows Mobile OS. 2010 saw the launch of Nokia's Maemo on the N900 as yet another new smartphone OS and also its end, when Maemo merged with Intel's Moblin to form MeeGo.

For 2011, I expected more and called it the Year 2, Electric Boogaloo of the Smartphones Bloodbath. We saw even more deaths and ever more intense competition. Gone now are Motorola, HP and Ericsson (who sold their share to Sony). And Nokia killed the world's bestselling smartphone OS, Symbian, while it was the leader. During 2011 the global lead in smartphone operating systems occurred (Android took over from Symbian), and the title for the individual largest smartphone manufacturer of the world saw the year with three different leaders (Nokia, Apple, Samsung) in three quarters. Nokia launched the N9 on MeeGo which was then promptly terminated as an OS and as Samsung replaced Nokia with the OS platform, the MeeGo project will now become Tizen. For Intel its the third separate smartphone OS in three years. Microsoft felt frustrated that Windows Mobile was still outselling Windows Phone, and ended its public mentions of Windows Mobile (which still sells in modest numbers). HP ended development of Palm WebOS turning it into an open source project. Meanwhile we heard that Nokia was not done building new operating systems, their next will be called Meltemi, designed for low-cost smartphones.

But some of the early fights are now over, and we can start to see the clear first and second tiers of the smartphone handset makers as well as the operating systems. Lets look into 2012 to see what kind of factors we should look for in the upcoming year. I am writing a series of blog postings as the form book for 2012, when we look at Year 3 of the Bloodbath. And we start with the biggest, Samsung. I think 2012 for Samsung will see several very close races for the leadership position by several metrics, so for Samsung it will be the year of the Leadwatch.

SAMSUNG THE LEADER

South Korean Samsung is currently the world's biggest smartphone handset maker. Globally world's second largest mobile phone handset maker and the biggest provider of Android smartphones, Samsung has two of its own OS's - bada is over a year old with about 2% market share of new sales, targeting low-cost smartphones, and Tizen being developed with Intel as an OS for premium-priced smartphones for 2012 release. Samsung is the only brand of mobile phones that has a number 1 or number 2 position on every one of the six inhabited continents but its market share of smartphones is still below that of its market share in dumbphones. Samsung seems to be on the rising side of most
trends of the industry.

Samsung played most of its cards just about perfectly in 2011. For 2012 we will have several intriguing storylines to follow. First, in January we get the Q4 results and it will be neck-and-neck between the iPhone and Samsung on who won the title for the fourth quarter smartphone sales. The race is also tantalizingly close for the full-year 2011 final numbers - between Apple and Samsung on who took the world's biggest smartphone maker crown for the full year 2011 (for 2012 it will not be close, Samsung will tower over Apple by this time next year). Nokia is now out of that race and relegated to third place for the year and falling more in 2012.

Samsung will intrigue us all year with mesmerizing battles both on smartphones (against Apple) and very likely also against Nokia for the title of world's biggest overall mobile phone handset maker. If Sammy takes that title from Nokia, perhaps the most unlikely scenario is what we will end up seeing - that Samsung will not be the biggest dumbphone maker - leaving that title to Nokia. To understand how implausible that seemed just a year ago, in the fourth quarter numbers last year when Samsung was closing in on Nokia's overall numbers that was done on the side of dumbphones - in smartphones Nokia outsold Samsung smartphones by 4 to 1 as recently as December of 2010. Now Nokia smartphone sales have collapsed and Samsung has been firing on all cylinders to capture the lion's share of those abandoned Nokia sales.

But that is the macro competitive picture. What to look for within Samsung in 2012? The three details to observe are Android, bada and Tizen. Samsung is currently the overwhelmingly largest Android manufacturer, grown far bigger than number 2 in Android: HTC. Meanwhile Samsung promised 10 million cumulative bada sales in its first year and only did about 6 million. Samsung shook up its bada organization but has not recently given public statements of its intentions with bada. The global average price for smarpthones continues to decline, and bada is well poised to capture the mass market side of smartphones in emerging markets from China and India to Egypt and Nigeria. Samsung will also be monitoring the statements that came from Sony(Ericsson) and Motorola both which boast high percentages of migrating dumbphones to smartphones - Sony will complete its migration to all smartphones by 2012. For Samsung to do that profitably and with a long-term view, they will need to bring bada to full status. We may well see Samsung numbers shift so, that bada becomes the biggest OS on Samsung smartphones and if that happens, bada will definitely become the third ecosystem during 2012 (not Microsoft Windows Phone with Nokia).

Then there is the new parent to MeeGo. After Nokia jilted Intel and announced rudely that they would not make any more MeeGo devices even if the N9 is a huge hit product, Intel went and found a new partner. Samsung stepped in and to show how they play hardball, on the very day that N9 sales started, Intel and Samsung announced the end of MeeGo and the launch of its replacement smartphone operating system, Tizen. Tizen phones should start to appear during 2012 and those are likely to be high-end smartphones similarly to how the N9 and N950 were high-end MeeGo devices. Tizen would be the logical high end OS of preference for Samsung if and when it wishes to move away from building Google's Android army. Expect Tizen to be built with plenty of family ecosystem thinking with bada and Samsung's app store, much like how Nokia's MeeGo strategy was supposed to work with Symbian and Ovi.

SOON BIGGEST OVERALL

On the handset side, Samsung has been pushing the envelope already with the world's first pico projector on a smartphone, the largest display on any semi-pocketable device - the Samsung Galaxy Note with its massive 5 inch screen, and just now in December, Samsung announced the world's first smartphones by any major global brand, with dual SIM slots. This is well in line with Samsung's past, the company was also the first to do the dual SIM phones on the dumbphones side among major global brands. Expect Samsung to take more of a leadership role and I would not be surprised if Sammy brings some 'superphone' spec devices at price points well above that of the iPhone. Just look at how the Galaxy series compares to the iPhone, and how much the Galaxy Note could be seen as a big brother rival to the iPod Touch. Don't you get the feeling that Samsung is giving us what we hoped would be in the next Apple product?

Expect Samsung to show us a direction on its strategic vision for mobile phones towards the middle or end of the year. Up to now, and into the first half of 2012, we will see Samsung continuing to execute faithfully their diabolical plan for world domination. I have said before that the Samsung strategy in mobile is just like they have had in other industries - they study the market leader meticulously - then they copy every aspect of the market leader's strategy in every minute detail, without bothering to question whether that strategy was wise or not, simply because everything the market leader did, had given it the market leadership position. And Samsung feels their South Korean heritage and incredibly rapid implementation speed will allow them to execute that same strategy inherently better than the market leader. This means, Samsung will inevitably catch up and pass the market leader.

In mobile we saw Samsung leapfrog three rivals during the past decade from fifth place to second biggest mobile phone maker. In smartphones they have already taken first place, and if current trends hold, Samsung will become the world's biggest overall mobile phone maker by the spring or summer of 2012, and most importantly, compared to their global rival Nokia, it will be Samsung who has a bigger share of the more lucrative smartphone segment - where the future lies, while Nokia will hold onto the bigger share of the older featurephone segment which reflects the past. Exactly like how Nokia rapidly took Motorola's leadership in the late 1990s when Nokia's handsets had the lead in digital phones while Motorola led in older analog phones.

I wrote when Nokia had its moment of madness in February with the Elop Effect, in my long analysis of how will the Nokia dividend be distributed among the smartphone maker rivals - that it most of all depended on execution - which of the Nokia smartphone rivals was most capable of ramping up and pushing smartphones at every price point, on every carrier, in every country. We see now that it was obviously Samsung who executed that tactical move to perfection, while others - most notably RIM - who were equally poised to capitalize, utterly failed to take advantage of the Nokia dividend (after all, for essentially all Nokia Symbian E-Series users, the obvious rival handset was the Blackberry. If Nokia E-Series was about a quarter of Nokia smartphone sales, why is RIM not today as big as Apple and Samsung?)

Now Samsung is poised to take the world leadership title in the truly big battle of this era, that of all mobile phone handsets. And that will bring a new era for Samsung. No longer able to copy the rival, Samsung will need to chart a strategic course for world domination. If Nokia could do it for more than a decade, surely Samsung must do so for the next ten years or so. And we should hear early signs of that new strategy towards the second half of this year.

Expect synergies here between the various units that Samsung is involved in from TVs to PCs and tablets to mobile, but also lessons from Samsung's South Korean domestic market, such as the digitally connected automobile and mobile money. Intel's Moblin-MeeGo-Tizen project had collected many electronics and automobile makers to join that ecosystem and it will give Samsung opportunity to differentiate - and to bring such benefits again back to Samsung flat screen TVs, tablet PCs etc. And if Apple's TV initiatives turn out winners, expect Samsung to have a rival up on the market soon as well.

So its the 'Leadwatch' for Samsung. Who is the global market share leader for Q4, for all of 2011, for Q1, for Q2, Q3 and Q4. By the end of 2012, it will be clear that for the full year, the global smartphone leader will be Samsung.

Then we watch in Q1, Q2, Q3 who is the world's biggest total handset maker. Samsung will be catching up to, and passing Nokia. Then there is bada. How will it fare against Microsoft's Windows Phone as Nokia ramps up Lumia sales. Then we have Android. How will Samsung do among the Android army against HTC and a surging LG and the others.

All of these will also yield local versions of the contest. Will Samsung continue to be the bestselling mobile phone handset in the USA? How big will its lead be in Europe. Will it lead in China? Can Samsung take Nokia's lead in India. How long will the market share in dumbphones continue to be bigger for Samsung than that in smartphones. And how rapidly will Samsung ramp up the transition of its dumbphones to the bada OS.

2012 will be a great year for those of us following the smartphones races, and Samsung is proving a remarkable competitor that is capitalizing on its opportunities.

Next up in this series: Apple, Nokia, RIM etc..

NOTE - For those posting comments - I love discussion on this blog. But because I will be publishing a series of articles about individual companies, I will be limiting all comments in these articles to related to that one company. So do not post comments about Apple or Nokia or Microsoft or RIM here in this thread. This discussion will be limited to Samsung. All comments that attempt to discuss non-Samsung aspects of the smarpthones races, will be deleted. You may, of course discuss Samsung in the context of whatever rival you want, but make sure you frame your comment to be about Samsung.

Comments

[Ramzi]

Great overview of Samsung's year and next future Tomi! (it's also relieving not to hear about WP and Nokia for a change :p)
Regarding Tizen project, the tight integration to TVs, cars and other home entertainment devices is obviously a plus for the newest OS; however Samsung might need more than few months to have the support of developers. Most of the serious ones already started HTML5 projects (from game developers to different services apps) but the technology is not mature enough to provide the native apps experience.. I wonder how Samsung will deal with that issue, especially for a high-end device..

[guest]

Tomi,

I am afraid I will have to break your rule somewhat, but in the specific case of Samsung this is warranted.

Samsung is not just a TV/PC/phone manufacturer, but also a major worldwide provider of essential electronic components. These are found everywhere, including in its competitors' products. A crucial case in point is Apple, which depends to a substantial part on components provided by Samsung for its iPhone.

How do you see this interdependence affecting Samsung's strategy in 2012?

[Tomi T Ahonen]

Hi Ramzi and guest

Ramzi - yes, the integration opportunities will take time, but also most of those companies are envious of the growth and profits in mobile and will put plenty of effort into capturing that opportunity. For Samsung I think its rapid small steps many times, more incremental gains than a big splash haha.

guest - no problem at all, you are 100% in the right here, that is valid comments, you dealt with Samsung and my blog article haha. I would never delete that. As to the components side, I think Samsung thought they were isolated from hostility from Apple being one of their critical suppliers but last year were faced with many lawsuits about the iPhone and iPad related patents etc. For Samsung it was a rude awakening but they have since toughened their stance with Apple and have been counter-suing and even sued pre-emptively to block some Apple launches. I think its a new and ugly side to the industry but will increase, not decrease in future. Same true of the components. Major conglomerates like Samsung will have R&D in many areas of high tech and will have abilities and components in many areas of it. That means that increasingly major companies are rivals in some area and partners in another. I would say, however, that Samsung is more astute in negotiating this treacherous side than Apple which tries to control everything and with that, Apple angers many partners and abandons many opportunities. Samsung is most capable at capitalizing on any emerging opportunities. They are perhaps 'the opportunist' of Mobile currently haha.

Thank you both for commenting

Tomi Ahonen :-)

[KPOM]

I agree Samsung will be the smartphone and possibly total phone sales leader in 2012. However, I think that their vulnerability lies in their "copy" approach. Apple's IP-related lawsuits are just the beginning. While they got the headlines, Microsoft got the licensing deals reportedly worth $15/phone, and there are also reports that Apple could get $10 per Android device if they changed their lawsuit strategy (which is totally possible). How much longer would Samsung want to subsidize their competitors at $20-$25 a pop is unknown (though they are also a major supplier to Apple).

Samsung may not be able to move to Tizen as easily as you suggest. Look at Nokia. Two different CEOs tried to move to a different platform. Symbian hung around, based largely on inertia, even as Android and iOS made significant inroads. Samsung may find that by the end of 2012, Android is so entrenched that it is "stuck" with it even if it would rather move to something in house like Bada or Tizen. If they try to hedge their bets by making more Windows phones (per their licensing agreement with Microsoft), they could unwittingly benefit Nokia and HTC, and threaten the viability of Tizen. If done sloppily (like Nokia's switch to Windows Phone), they could even undermine their own position with Android.

[cycnus]

Hi Tomi,

I remember you write that one of the reason that carrier hate nokia even more were because nokia doing the dual sim card. I was wondering what Samsung did on dual sim android that were differ with nokia. Or the carrier also hate samsung on doing the dual sim card?

I also want to know your opinion on samsung dual sim card strategy in China, namely the samsung galaxy SII duo that just got announced a couple of days back. FIY, I know that china dual sim card smartphone were started 5-7 years back, starting with MS Windows CE from Coolpad. and I believe you must be familiar with this too since you do a consulting in china?

Other than that, seeing how apple sales of iphone 4S were not good in most europe country, and fall behind SGS II, I agree that Samsung do perfect in 2011. and wondering if samsung can hold it's crown as long as nokia.

Thanks for the great blog, I always enjoy reading your blog.

[Tomi T Ahonen]

Hi Baron, Lee, KPOM and cygnus

(something weird with Typepad, I'll repost my replies one-by-one)

Baron - Good points and we mostly agree. On the cloud part - I would think the cloud strategy is 'a must' for any software company (Microsoft, Google etc) but not necessarily for a hardware company like Samsung. At least not in the short-to-mid term time window ie most of this decade. And if Sammy has something like a quarter of all mobile phone handsets of the world - more handsets using Samsung brand than all PCs of any kind combined - plus those are all smartphones, then Samsung would be in a great position to try to 'do an Ovi' strategy to do their own photo sharing and instant messaging and music store etc services, in addition to software sales like traditional app stores. That is an option that is realistic only for the very big reach global players (like Nokia, Samsung). I think Apple over-reached with the media play on the iPad and many media brands are abandoning their initial 'iPad is a separate medium' strategies. But time will tell, certainly the cloud will play a much bigger role in the future and we'll see how Samsung will adjust to that world.

Tomi Ahonen :-)

[Tomi T Ahonen]

Hi Baron, Lee, KPOM and cygnus

Leebase - I did mean that Samsung copies the market leader meticulously ie Sammhy copied Nokia, not Apple. Where Samsung copied Apple, it was indirectly where it initially copied Nokia. Of course where someone else does something clearly successful (touch screens on iPhone) then yes, they would take that 'short-cut' before Nokia figured it out that the iPhone was not a fad haha. But I was definitely not suggesting that when Samsung strategy is to copy the leader, they would focus on Blackberry (who outsold Apple still last year) or Apple for that matter. They have been 'meticulously' copying Nokia in everything Nokia did, including when Nokia had the Symbian partnership - Samsung stayed there - and when Nokia made Symbian its own OS, Samsung announced bada, and when Nokia did a 'special partnership' with Microsoft, so did Samsung etc etc etc. Its really copying the market leader meticulously and that is why Sammy is catching and will pass Nokia. They don't have to waste internal resources in comparing alternate strategies and then convincing internally conflicted units to agree on that selected strategy haha..

Then on Tizen and Google push-back. Google cannot 'push back' against any of its handset vendors. There were many OS options prior to Android (Symbian, Windows Mobile, LiMo) and there are many now (Windows Phone, Tizen, LiMo, even arguably WebOS). Most Android providers offered smartphones on other platforms - Samsung already has bada - and do so now. Samsung knows its OS is never on an exclusive basis. That is actually very good for Google, Google has to earn its role, it has to deliver better value to the handset makers and thus stay ahead of the rival OS platforms and so far, they have done that admirably.

For Samsung I think Tizen is the obvious play with bada, just like Nokia had the obvious 'best' strategy shifting to MeeGo at the top end, Symbian in short-term for low end, and developing Meltemi for low end in the longer run, all tied into Qt. Samsung can stay with Android but then both be at the whim of Google's development, and having no strategic differentiation options from other Android makers. In the long run, the Samsung-owned operating systems will pose biggest rival to Android, as their scale is considerably greater than the potential for iPhone or Blackberry (or Windows Phone haha). A smart rival handset maker will run some development on Tizen as an insurance play and to keep an eye on Samsung's focus areas..

Yes the Samsung 'interest' in Windows Phone haha. Good point. I should probably have added it. I think its totally cosmetic by Samsung and by far their least priority. Separately I think WP7 is failing miserably in the market so what one or two phones they might release with WP7 will be only for show, to placate Microsoft and keep them from lawsuits haha. I think Microsoft killed its chances with WP7 in the eyes of the carriers when MS bought Skype as I wrote on this blog, but MS also killed its chances with all (non-Nokia) handset makers when Microsoft resorted to lawsuits against handset makers like Motorola. For 2012, WP7 will not be a significant platform for Samsung, but maybe I should have said so in the blog.

Tomi Ahonen :-)

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[Tomi T Ahonen]

KPOM - I think you misunderstood what I meant with 'copy'. I meant Samsung is not copying hardware (even though they are also doing that, as Apple has been arguing in courts). I meant much more strategically, Samsung is copying the business, the strategy of the number 1 company in any industry they compete in, including in our case, that of Nokia the market leader in handsets (and up to early 2011, also in smartphones, which would not be the primary focus obviously). Samsung has not been copying the rather limited and short-sighted and carrier-hostile strategies of Apple. Samsung has ignored Apple strategies (and those of RIM which for the first 4 years of the iPhone was bigger than Apple in smartphones). Samsung has copied meticulously Nokia..

I do agree that Samsung may have taken the 'copy' idea maybe too far with some Apple product 'reverse engineering' ideas but for example the iPhone touch screen slate form factor was not Samsung copying Apple, if Samsung copied anyone, they were copying LG from the previous year ie 2006. I can't think of any iPhone or Apple smartphone 'innovation' that Samsung could be said to have been copying, that didn't exist somewhere else before it came to Apple, can you? Even the software 'multitouch' ie pinching etc was already shown by other software developers (in prototype form) in 2006.

I do agree that the migration(s) would not be easy. I also am 100% confident that Samsung is smart enough to see the massive mistakes done by Microsoft and Nokia (most of all, no migration path by Microsoft and destroying the already-announced and deployed migration path by Nokia). So while it wouldn't be easy or cheap or fast, Samsung should be able to execute that better than Nokia's fumbling in this space now - observing that obviously as I think the WP7 direction by Nokia is a dead end, if there is a Nokia alive as an independent smartphone maker by the end of next year, they will have abandoned the WP7 strategy and have to take on MUCH more expenses to either revert to the previous Symbian+MeeGo+Qt)+Meltemi) strategy, or shift to an Android+Meltemi+Qt strategy. The misadventure to WP7 will be seen as an enormously costly mis-step by the past CEO, and just recovering from that will be further costs and losses to Nokia and its tarnished brand.

Tomi Ahonen :-)

[KPOM]

I get your point about Samsung copying Nokia's strategies, but my point about the "copy" strategy going too far also refers to their product strategy. While Samsung may not have "copied" in a legal sense, they don't seem to have an original idea. That is, without a Nokia or an Apple to show the way, Samsung may just rest on its laurels and milk its market position for all its worth (much the way Nokia did in the OPK era). Without the success of the iPad, would Samsung have ever released the Galaxy Tab? Even the Galaxy Note was preceded by the Dell Streak. That's what I mean by "copying."

I also think you underestimate Apple's influence (though I'll wait to see your post on them). Samsung and the rest of the market weren't "copying" LG when they switched to capacitive, multi-touch screens. They were copying Apple, who showed everyone else it was commercially viable and a method of input. Sure, they existed before Apple, but I recall even after the iPhone's release that Nokia execs and apologists everywhere claimed they were inferior because they couldn't be used with a stylus or a gloved hand, and that they'd never take off in Asia because of the character set. Similarly, Apple's "short-sighted, carrier-hostile" policies helped break the stranglehold that carriers had, enabling such concepts as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (which has minimal carrier branding, albeit more than any iPhone).

Samsung is a master at playing "second mover advantage." However, that requires someone else to move first. That strategy is a great way to vault to a lead, but not necessarily a way to maintain that lead.

[KPOM]

@Baron95, the biggest threat to the Samsung tablet line isn't the iPad. It's the Kindle Fire. Even though it is sold only in the US, it is already the #2 tablet. If Amazon expands the line upward (which I think they will), and Apple expands the iPad downward (which I think they might - at the very least they'll copy their iPhone strategy and keep a cheaper iPad 2 around), then the tablet market will likely shake out with Apple and Amazon each grabbing about 30-35%, and everyone else (Android, Windows 8 ARM, etc.) fighting over the remaining 30-40%. Amazon's biggest threat is that people buy tablets for content, and Amazon has more content than anyone else. Apple also has content through iTunes. Samsung relies on others for its tablet software (Google for now, perhaps Microsoft with Windows 8 ARM), and has no content.

[Bob Shaw]

Going forward the smartphone cannot be looked as a standalone computing device used in isolation. It will have to work in tandem with other form factors i.e. tablets, laptops and PC. Also possibly television.

In 2 to 3 years going forward, the OS that would do well is the one that is scaleble and consistent across all form factors i.e. smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and possibly Televison. Also cloud would play a very prominent role as it would allow seamless working across these different form factors e.g. one can continue watching a movie in tablet or smartphone where the person left off on the desktop.

Windows 8 appears to be the most likely candidate for the top spot as it is expected to have the most seamless working across multiple form factors. Nokia may have some transition pains but it would benefit immensely from its relationship with Microsoft as the smartphone evolves in 2 to 3 years.

Samsung may have benefited at present by hoping in different beds with different OSes without any loyalty. However these benefits are short term and will not last as the smartphone evolves. In the long run it is only strong alliances between players with complementary skills that succeed.

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As a happy owner of note I would like to defend Samsung innovations that went into the device. It has combination of features that make it stand out from other smartphones including streak:
- screen resolution: 1280:800 is a truly desktop level experience that paired with no nonsense pixel density (with streak and iPhone on both extremes) removed mobile restrictions to Web browsing whether touch optimized or not,
- precise pen input goes as far as it gets on emulating mouse on a mobile device
- pressure sensitive pen and form factor brings it very close to physical note taking and hand drawing experience, something that tech conservationists among us may praise.
There are some quirks that suggest Samsung is not there yet with this class (GUI layout, ESP. keyboard and bars are not adapted to the fact than 30% of the screen is barely reachable single handed, I've seen handwriting recognition done ways better). Besides gingerbread doesn't seem best fit for such for such spectd device.
Nevertheless I believe all makes it one of the boldest pushes in Samsung smartphone history. Successors with amoled+ and keyboard could spring very successful family of devices and redefine a business phone.

[anotherGuest]

Well to me one of the main reasons why i dont find samsung smartphones to be appealing is the design ... it reassembles iPhone so much that i consider it to be its cheaper version :P

[usnuyh]

hmm... korean online news is saying that 2012 q4's sales will be 34millons for samsung and 23millions for apple. Anyway i think the biggest news for 2012 in smartphone industry will be samsung's galaxy skin(coming out in q2 of 2012). This will be like a next generation smartphone with flexible screens(power of AMOLED display). I don't know how great the first model would be but they already got technology to make bendable batteries, materials, and YES bendable internal circuits(i saw couple news, i'm not lying), so this would be totally interesting.

[usnuyh]

oops! i meant 2011's q4 sales

[cycnus]

Hi Tomi,

I think your answer to me still missing in action :(

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South Korean Samsung is currently the world's biggest smartphone handset maker. Globally world's second largest mobile phone handset maker and the biggest provider of Android smartphones, Samsung has two of its own OS's - bada is over a year old with about 2% market share of new sales, targeting low-cost smartphones, and Tizen being developed with Intel as an OS for premium-priced smartphones for 2012 release. Samsung is the only brand of mobile phones that has a number 1 or number 2 position on every one of the six inhabited continents but its market share of smartphones is still below that of its market share in dumbphones. Samsung seems to be on the rising side of most
trends of the industry.