The forecasts ended up being fulfilled: South Korean Samsung broke its own records for mobile sales in the last quarter of 2011. Yesterday, Friday, January 6, the Asian firm made public its balance for the three months that closed last year, accounting for an amount of 35 million smart phones sold in that period alone.
With this, those of Seoul seal a growth that is estimated at 25 percent compared to the previous quarter, and 73 percent in profits compared to the same period in 2010, as we know through information from Reuters. And it is that Samsung recorded a profit in operations of no less than 4,500 million dollars -more than 3,470 million euros, at the current exchange rate-.
Analysts predicted in the days prior to the publication of the company's results that these data would remain at an already spectacular 4.1 billion dollars -almost 3.15 billion euros-, which underlines the excellent health for which pass the accounts of the Korean multinational.
Such is the enthusiasm that the balance printed at the offices of the company between forecasts that program for the current quarter contemplate republish sales the last three months, so that between January and March this year they hope to resell 35 million units from its mobile phone catalog.
The future of the firm in this segment happens, according to forecasts by the companies BNP Paribas and Korea Investment & Securities, due to the sale of no less than 170 million smart phones in 2012. It should be noted the category to which both analysis firms refer. This is not a data referring to the entire offer of Samsung phones, but only to so-called smartphones , or mobile phones with advanced functions.
In the case of the entire range of phones, as of November 2011, Samsung managed to sell more than 300 million units. The figure becomes more relevant when it is known that the company expected to commercialize 280 million devices between January 1 and December 31, 2011, so it can be confirmed, without hesitation, that last year was the most rewarding for Samsung figures.
