Samsung has announced today that the Galaxy S II is the hottest smartphone in the world, hitting 3 million units sold in just 55 days.
Making the number much more impressive is that fact that the device has not even reached U.S. shores yet, with expected launch date sometime in August.
At 3 million in 55 days, the sales eclipse the original Galaxy’s 85 days for the milestone.
The phone is also Samsung’s fastest selling phone, ever.
When the device hits the U.S., it will sell as the Samsung Function on Verizon, the Within on Sprint and the Attain on AT&T. There is no word on a T-Mobile release, yet.
Samsung has lofty expectations for 10 million sales of the Galaxy S II by the end of the year.
Result for: 10 million
IDC has posted their tablet and e-reader shipment figures for 2010, and it appears that 18 million media tablets were shipped for the year, and 12 million dedicated e-readers.
10 million of those tablets shipped in the Q4 alone.
Apple remained the dominate force, with a 73 percent share of the market, but that number fell substantially from the 93 percent share the company had at the end of the Q3.
Samsung took 17 percent share with their Galaxy Tab, while all other companies took the final 10 percent.
The e-reader market saw significant gains, as well, following the release of the refreshed Amazon Kindle and the Nook Color.
E-reader shipment growth grew 325 percent to 13 million, with the Kindle taking 48 percent share. B&N took second place, with their Nook and Nook Color devices. Pandigital was a close third, followed by Hanvon and Sony to round out the top 5.
IDC expects the media tablet market to hit 50 million shipped in 2011, thanks to the Motorola Xoom and other Android devices but mainly because of the new iPad 2 (pictured).
Result for: 10 million
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has confirmed today they have acquired the very popular technology blog TechCrunch.
TechCrunch was founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington.
GigaOM, a rival tech blog, first broke the news yesterday that a deal was in the works.
At TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference, Arrington and Armstrong signed the actual contract on stage, in front of a full audience.
AOL’s only condition is that Arrington stay as part of the site until 2013, at least.
The reported price for the acquisition is $25 million, even though the site reportedly brings in $10 million per year.
