“The U.S. wireless industry should grow 7% to 10% next year, according to the head of Samsung Electronics’s North American wireless unit,” Roger Cheng reports for Dow Jones Newswires.
Cheng reports, “That compares with 7% to 8% growth for this year, said Dale Sohn, president of Samsung Telecommunications America. It’s one of the reasons why Samsung is expanding its product lineup to 60 devices in 2007. ‘I don’t see growth slowing in the U.S. market,’ he told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday during the Samsung Mobile Summit in New York.”
“Sohn said Samsung has taken the No. 2 position in the U.S. market behind Motorola. The world’s largest handset maker, Nokia, was third,” Cheng reports. “Samsung hopes its strategy of selling a wide variety of products will pay off in winning over the diverse U.S. customer base. One of the key capabilities is music. Sohn said he looks forward to Apple Computer Inc.’s launch of its iPhones because it gives Samsung the chance to tout its own lineup of music phones.”
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Sohn must also enjoy being driven over by steamrollers. Hey, whatever happened to Samsung’s “we will take top spot in music players from Apple by 2007” vow? They’re quickly running out of time. Samsung has quite a lot of ground to cover in 17 days.
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Yeah, right and I’m looking forward to my root canal next Wednesday. But what do you expect him to say “We’re scared of the iPhone?”