Samsung Galaxy S II hits 3 million pre-orders

Samsung claimed unprecedented genuine demand for the Galaxy S II on Sunday night. The electronics giant said it had picked up three million pre-orders worldwide for its dual-core Android phone by the end of April, when it went on sale in Korea. Orders were expected to only go up as the phone reached global scale and peaked at 120 countries.

The number suggested pent-up demand beyond just Samsung's home country, where it sold 120,000 of the phones in the first few days. It may force the company to up its forecast for the phone since it had predicted 10 million Galaxy S IIs shipping for the entire year.

Demand is likely to taper off, but at this rate could see Samsung's rapid growth in smartphones continue and threaten companies like Apple. The Galaxy S II has earned much of its early buzz from being the fastest phone to date as well as its 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display.

Its performance could change with the launch of the HTC Sensation by the summer as well as the next iPhone in September.

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Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 tablet hits US pre-orders

The Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 first unveiled at CeBIT in March is now up for pre-order on the company’s website. The Windows 7 tablet comes in two models, differentiated spec and price. The entry-level model starts at $729 and comes with 30GB SSD, while the higher-spec 62GB SSD model costs $849.

The two devices are further differentiated by RAM and batteries with the entry-level model is equipped with 2GB and a 2-cell battery and the higher-spec with 4GB and a 4-cell battery. The rest of the specifications remain identical. Core specifications include an Intel Atom Z670 clocked at 1.5GHz matched with 512KB cache and with an 800MHz FSB. The anti-glare 10.1-inch WXGA LED backlit display also features IPS technology for wide viewing angles. It also supports capacitive multi-touch as well as digital pen input.

The Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 is expected to ship in June.

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Samsung Galaxy S II hits 3 million pre-orders

Samsung claimed unprecedented genuine demand for the Galaxy S II on Sunday night. The electronics giant said it had picked up three million pre-orders worldwide for its dual-core Android phone by the end of April, when it went on sale in Korea. Orders were expected to only go up as the phone reached global scale and peaked at 120 countries.

The number suggested pent-up demand beyond just Samsung's home country, where it sold 120,000 of the phones in the first few days. It may force the company to up its forecast for the phone since it had predicted 10 million Galaxy S IIs shipping for the entire year.

Demand is likely to taper off, but at this rate could see Samsung's rapid growth in smartphones continue and threaten companies like Apple. The Galaxy S II has earned much of its early buzz from being the fastest phone to date as well as its 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display.

Its performance could change with the launch of the HTC Sensation by the summer as well as the next iPhone in September.

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Samsung takes 200K Galaxy S II pre-orders, passes iPhone 4

Samsung claimed an at least initial win for the Galaxy S II. The company took over 200,000 pre-orders across all three major Korean carriers between Monday of last week and the launch on Friday. About 160,000 of those were at the country's largest carrier, SK Telecom.

The pre-orders cracked 10,000 units in the first 29 minutes and doubled that in just over an hour, at 64 minutes.

Samsung's results blew past iPhone 4 pre-orders last August and set a relatively high but potentially surmountable barrier for Apple. The American firm took just over half as many pre-orders last year, but it also had just KT as its only carrier and only added SK Telecom as a carrier in March. Apple has yet to launch any iPhone on more than one Korean carrier at the same time.

Samsung's long-term, worldwide ambitions for the Galaxy S II are relatively modest. It plans to sell 10 million of the phones in all of 2011, or the same as it sold of the original last year. A wider range of Android phones should still lead to larger results, but its caution suggests it doesn't necessarily expect to beat other Android makers. Apple already shipped 18.65 million iPhones just in the winter.

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