Samsung to Ship 50 Million Smartphones this Year, HTC to Push 10 Million with 4G
The battle for smartphone OEM supremacy will no doubt heat up throughout 2011, and we have a pair of reports indicating just how many handsets two of the biggest manufacturers plan on moving this year. Samsung is aiming to ship and sell 50 million units this year, the majority of which will be Android-based. Taking up much smaller portions of that pie will be Samsung’s own Bada and Windows Phone 7.
A report from DigitTimes doesn’t peg a grand total for HTC’s handset shipments, but it does claim that the company plans on shipping 10 million 4G-enabled devices. The report also claims this won’t include HSPA+ “4G” phones, only WiMAX and LTE. They also point out that HTC moved 3 million WiMAX devices last year, all of which were the HTC EVO 4G.
[via BGR, UnwiredView]