Samsung will be launching its much awaited Galaxy S III model on May 29 in USA and on June 1 in India. Customers can purchase the handset only from that date in the open markets. Everyone is talking about Galaxy S3 smartphone since its official lanuch on May 3. Many retailers receive calls from their regular customers querying the availability of Galaxy S III at their stores. Record number of pre-orders for Galaxy S IIISamsung estore has given a pre-order facility on their official online portal to receive the pre- orders from their awaited customers. consumers availed the pre-order facility to their best on Samsung official estore and the number reached to 9 million pre-orders and running towards 10 million. Samsung received the surprising millions of pre-orders from 100 carriers across the world. S3 available for pre order in UK, Japan and Russia via NTT Docomo and in Australia via MobiCity. Indians can book Galaxy S III from samsung official online estore.
Quick look at massive features of Samsung Galaxy S III
- 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display with 1280x720 pixels and 306 ppi density
- Exynos 1.4GHz quad-core processor
- 1GB of RAM
- 16/32/64GB of on-board storage which can be further expanded using the Micro-SD slot
- 8 mega pixel camera and 2 mega pixel front facing camera
- Touch Screen
Samsung Galaxy S2 took 6 months time Samsung took around 6 months time after its previous Galaxy S2's launch in April 2011 to reach ten million sales target. AS of February 2012, a total of 20 million Galaxy S2 handsets were shipped worldwide. Where as latest smartphone Galaxy S III reaches the 10 million magic number even before its launch in the form of pre orders.
Factories working at their full capacity Sources said that, Samsung factories are already running at their full capacity, manufacturing around five million units every month.Looking at the current demand over Galaxy S3 from the consumers, sales numbers may easily hit 10 million and 20 million in a record less time if the same rate of demand continues even after the official launch.
Expecting big Quarter 2 numbers With the stunning number of pre-orders across the world, Samsung's Galaxy S III might have resulted in posting very strong second quarter revenues for the South Korean company, Samsung.
Samsung tops the handset Sales in last Quarter Samsung tops the mobile handset sales (smartphones and feature phones combined) with 86.6 million units shipped in the last quarter kicked Nokia to the second position, which held the No. 1 position in handset sales since 1998.
3 Challenges in front of Samsung Galaxy S III
To provide enough stock at stores Track record says that, Samsung manages to provide the sufficient stock to all the retail stores during their new launches, but this time, it would be difficult for Samsung to meet the customer demand in case of Samsung S3.
Timely dispatch of Handsets Samsung has to ship the Galaxy S III mobile phone to all the customers who placed pre orders via hundreds of carriers across the world along with the assured free gifts. Any delay or faults in the dispatch of the handsets may witness the other side of customers, with their angry
Increase of its production Already, Samsung received 10 million pre orders across the world, 10 days before the official launch of the Galaxy S III smartphone. The number of pre orders may go up and may see demand increase even after the official launch as well, But looking at the capacity of samsung factories which can produce only 5 million handsets a month, How do the Samsung team manages to meet the customer demand with their production.
