Samsung's Next Milky Way Phone Set For Aug U.S. Release

Samsung skeleton a U.S. let go is to continuation to its many successful Android smartphone by the finish of the summer, according to a comparison senior manager of the company.

"We design to let go the Milky Way S2 in the U.S. marketplace someday in August," mentioned Shin Jong-kyun, Samsung boss of mobile business and digital imaging, in a lecture with reporters in South Korea on Wednesday. The story was initial reported by Yonhap News .

The phone was primarily expelled in South Korea - Samsung's universal domicile - in April, subsequently rolling out to Europe and southern Asian countries in the months that followed.

The let go of the Milky Way S2 comes at a quite quarrelsome time for Samsung, a of the largest manufacturers of Android-powered smartphones. The firm is inextricable in a caustic obvious disagreement with Apple , the latter claiming Samsung's Milky Way Tab and Milky Way S products were express rip-offs of Apple's iPad and iPhone devices.

"We admire competition, but you wish people to invent their own stuff, and you are going to ensure you urge our egghead property," Apple COO Tim Cook mentioned on the company's gain inform discussion call on Tuesday.

Samsung's initial Milky Way smartphone model - that admittedly looks a lot similar to the initial iPhone - was hugely successful is to company. In its initial 6 months after release, Samsung sole 10 million Milky Way S smartphones worldwide. Total sales of the Milky Way S2 from the countries it has already been expelled in amount to roughly 3 million gadgets thus far.

Considering the obvious disagreement with Apple, Samsung's sales total desire for comparison to the iPhone's success. Apple reported record sales of its iPhone gadgets in its gain inform on Tuesday, with 20 million iPhones sole in a time of usually 3 months.

But Shin has the company's sights set high. Samsung is heavily compelling its ultimate inscription offering, the Milky Way Tab 10.1. And Shin expects the firm to sell over 60 million smartphones by the finish of this year.

Whether that number is pragmatic or not waste to be seen. If customers admire the phone as ample as our sister site Wired.co.uk does, Shin's expectations might not be far off base.