(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd said on Sunday its annual mobile handset sales this year had exceeded 300 million units for the first time in the company's history.
Samsung, the world's second largest handset maker by volume, said in a statement it had broken its record 280 million handset sales in 2010 by the end of last month. The GALAXY S II, launched in April, set a new sales record for Samsung, generating 10 million-unit sales.
"We look forward to extending this success going into 2012," JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung's Mobile Communications Business, was quoted as saying.
Company's flagship handset is Galaxy S smartphone series, Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, and together wtih Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Samsung Galaxy Note contributed significantly to the results.
