Samsung to use smartphone success to expand tablet presence

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Samsung to use smartphone success to expand tablet presence

By Peter Nowak, CBC News
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 8:41 AM ET


If the length of press conference lineups at the Consumer Electronics Show are anything to go by, Samsung is one of the hottest gadget makers going right now.

On Monday, the South Korean company had to turn away hundreds of journalists who were hoping to catch a glimpse of its latest televisions, phones, tablets and appliances, simply because there wasn’t enough space to accommodate them all.

The company used the event to claim market leadership in a number of product categories, including smartphones. Samsung Canada president James Politeski later sat down with CBC News to elaborate on the company’s present and future in this country, as well as overall trends in the electronics business.

CBC News: Can you explain how Samsung calculates its leadership position in smartphones? Some numbers give that position to Apple.

James Politeski: The number we count is units, so 300 million phones (shipped) makes that the largest quantity of phones in the world, as measured by the various reported sources of information. We are the largest in units. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/01/12/f-ces-samsung.html

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1. tablet

"Q: One area in which Samsung hasn’t done well is tablets. According to some estimates, Samsung’s market share in Canada is in the low single digits. What’s happening for you there?

A: Last year was our start, our first foray into them. We obviously have an opportunity to grow that business"


I call bullshit on that - from 2006 -