Samsung Sold 50 Million Touchscreen Phones to Date [40 Million Touchscreen Handsets Sold in 2009 Alone]

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I don’t know what happened today as everyone is bragging about their business. Sure it’s the end of another month and Black Friday has just passed by, but the holiday shopping season is still underway. We’ve seen Amazon showing off its record Kindle sales for November and now it’s time for Samsung to come out with a similar announcement.

But unlike Amazon, which failed to back its press release with actual numbers, Samsung has some impressive figures today. The giant handset manufacturer has announced that it has sold the 50 millionth touchscreen phone to date. Even more impressive is the fact that 40 million touchscreen cell phones have been sold by the Korean company this year alone.

On comparison Apple has over 30 million iPhones sold since the launch of the device and RIM has sold about 50 million BlackBerry smartphones so far. Sure Samsung doesn’t have a unique handset to sell as good as the iPhone but it certainly doesn’t look like it’s desperate about developing one.

On the other hand it looks like more and more people are choosing a phone with a touch-friendly interface these days. Whether it’s a smartphone or a dumber phone but filled with extra features accessible through a touchscreen UI, customers are slowly becoming used to the new handset trend.

A trend imposed by Apple of course and quickly followed by every manufacturer in the business, including Samsung. The most successful touchscreen handsets that Samsung sold this year are the Samsung S5230 which sold in 10 million copies within six months from getting launched, the F480 which sold 9 million units since May 2008 and the S3650 Corby which sold 3 million units since September 2009.

With so many touchscreen phones sold it’s no wonder that Samsung wants to introduce its own OS. bada is going to officially be unveiled next month in London and once properly launched it could help Samsung sell even more touchscreen devices next year. It seems that Samsung is following another trend imposed by Apple with bada. The new OS will come with support for lots of applications and we all know by now that apps play an important part in that whole touchscreen phone experience.