{"id":6720,"date":"2012-02-27T05:55:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T05:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2012-02-27T06:10:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:10:45","slug":"samsung-aims-to-nearly-double-smartphone-sales-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/6720\/samsung-aims-to-nearly-double-smartphone-sales-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung aims to nearly double smartphone sales in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics&#8217; mobile chief said it aimed to nearly double its smartphone sales in 2012 from last year, stepping up its battle with arch rival Apple Inc.<\/p>\n<p>JK Shin, president and head of Samsung&#8217;s Mobile Communications Business, made the comment to reporters ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. His remarks were later confirmed by a company spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung topped global smartphone sales rankings last year, more than quadrupling smartphone sales to 97.4 million from 2010, according to data from Strategy Analytics. Apple finished a close second, with sales of 93 million smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Shin also said Samsung aimed to boost its total handset sales to 380 million this year, which would mark 16 percent sales growth for the world&#8217;s No.2 handset maker.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics last year sold 327.4 million handsets, up from 280.2 million in 2010, according to Strategy Analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics&#8217; mobile chief said it aimed to nearly double its smartphone sales in 2012 from last year, stepping up its battle with arch rival Apple Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,51,293,52,117],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-sales","tag-samsung","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6729,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/6729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}