Samsung Electronics have reached quite a milestone today as their flagship handset the Galaxy S2 has now sold 5 million handsets since it's launch three months ago.
The Korean tech giant managed to shift a whopping 5 million handsets in the first 85 days on sale. 3 million of them were in the first 55 days and added a further 2 million in the last month.
Samsung is likely to sell even more as the S2 has yet to go on sale in the US and when it does it's likely to sell even more.
The Samsung Galaxy S2 has been a massive success story in the UK as it's the top selling phone in the UK at the moment consistently outselling Apple's iPhone 4.
Measuring in at just 8.49mm thick the Android 2.3 Gingerbread touting Samsung Galaxy S2 plays host to a 1.2GHz dual-core processor as well as boasting an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p Full HD video recording capabilities and a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display.
The new model, which is spearheading the company’s smartphone push this year, was released locally on April 29, in some European countries in May and in Japan last month. The handset went on sale in China this week and will hit the US market next month.
“Since being launched into the retail market in late April, the Galaxy S II has seen tremendous growth,” JK Shin, head of Samsung’s mobile communications business, said in a statement.
Samsung said earlier this year that it plans to release the phone, based on Google’s Android operating system, in 120 countries and wants to sell 10 million units globally.