Samsung is selling 200 Galaxy S4 smartphones EVERY MINUTE

South Korean smartphones maker Samsung Electronics, the world leader in smartphones sales, is setting new records and breaking its own previous ones with the shipment of its new Galaxy S4 handsets.

According to an unnamed Samsung executive, the company shipped over 6 million Galaxy S4 handsets by May 10, and he added that Samsung is on track to ship 10 million of its new smartphones by the end of May 2013.

Considering that the Galaxy S4 became available globally only on April 26, this translates into 10 million devices in about 35 days. Do the math (we did), and that works out to 198.4 Galaxy S4 smartphones per minute (yes, 3.3 smartphones sold every second).

So in the time it took you to read until here, Samsung shipped another 150-odd Galaxy S4 smartphones to be sold in 155 countries across 327 networks.

“As of the end of April, we supplied 4 million Galaxy S4 handsets to telecommunications operators around the world,” an unnamed Samsung executive told The Chosun Ilbo, a Korean news site.

We knew that already – Samsung had announced this number as the first weekend sale number. By this metric, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has beaten its own previous record of 21 days to 3 million units held by its predecessor the Samsung Galaxy S3. The previous flagship itself also broke sales records held by the Samsung Galaxy S2, which took 55 days to reach 3 million units.

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