Samsung Galaxy S III made by 75,000 workers; phone is the fastest selling gadget of all-time

4. PhoneArenaUser posted on 19 May 2012, 15:46 8 5

Talking about manufacturing:

!!!SCANDALOUS TRUTH ABOUT APPLE AND MANUFACTURING THEIR DEVICES!!!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7mvIrPMctY (Watch in HD)

For those who don't understand in Russian, there is English subtitles!

48. abdane posted on 19 May 2012, 23:17 3 0

um... shouldn't the S3 sales by now WITH the us market be 19 million ??? because 9 million without the US, and a read a post before announcing the GS3 that USA already preordered 10 million of the GS3... so with US it could have sold 19 million :)

46. Android2627 posted on 19 May 2012, 22:18 6 1

Apple Has Workers Who Get Less Paid and Samsung Pays More to Workers then also Apple sells its product at more Cost :O Cheater's

21. Andman314 posted on 19 May 2012, 17:26 15 3

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

41. TROLL.ISAHA (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 21:42 2 3

Yeap....

36. E.N. posted on 19 May 2012, 20:23 4 4

"Samsung Electronics Co has received some 9 million pre-orders for its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone from more than 100 global carriers, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday"

The key word here is carriers, and not customers. That's a HUGE difference. Each carrier has their own pre-orders of the smartphone, but whether all the pre-orders from all the carriers totaled to 9,000,000 is questionable. They probably ordered much much more than what was pre-ordered. Some carriers are even just starting pre-orders. The pricing in some carriers are not even revealed yet. doesn't make sense.

Also Samsung already denied the comment made by "an anonymous Samsung official" that they were manufacturing the phone at maximum capacity producing 5 million phones per month. If they had been producing 5 million phones a month, they would have to have been producing smartphones since March. And we haven't even considered in store sales at this point. If Samsung plans to have any SGIIIs in any stores at all, you should double time because that means they have another batch of SGIIIs ready to send to the retailers. Also, Since they denied they were making 5 million/month, then that throws the production date to much much earlier towards the beginning of the year. Very unlikely.

The SGIII is going to be a great device no doubt, but still......

49. protozeloz posted on 19 May 2012, 23:21 0 0

agreed, number is a bit off, but maybe they sell a much reasonable number and beat smartphone records

51. dickwyn posted on 19 May 2012, 23:50 2 3

you do make sense. 9 million from CARRIERS and not people

55. ph00ny posted on 20 May 2012, 06:05 2 0

And how do you suppose samsung sell directly to their customers without direct sales ability?

58. dickwyn posted on 20 May 2012, 09:17 1 2

sell it in their stores like apple does or ask customers to directly pre-order their phone from them. it is not like all countries count on carrier phones, i live in asia and most people prefer to buy unlocked phones sim-free. finally i bet samsung have more authorised shops than apple do around the globe

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62. remixfa posted on 20 May 2012, 10:18 1 0

Samsung has barely any shops outside of korea. I think apple actually has more direct shops.

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67. manzl posted on 20 May 2012, 13:45 1 0

i think ur wrong ...samsung do have more stores than apple worldwide..

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73. dickwyn posted on 20 May 2012, 17:17 0 0

nope they have more shops than apple

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37. Archan_Pe posted on 19 May 2012, 20:24 2 0

Y wait for the 6 when there a 5? xD...

50. E.N. posted on 19 May 2012, 23:31 1 1

we don't know whether or not it'll be called the iPhone 5 or 6. Technically it should be called the iPhone 6 because its the 6th iPhone (iPhone 4 was the 4th iPhone), but if for some reason they need to hit all the numbers it may be called the iPhone 5 (iPhone 5 sounds a bit better too).

63. remixfa posted on 20 May 2012, 10:18 3 1

it will have 6G!!

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59. dickwyn posted on 20 May 2012, 09:30 0 2

yea its not fair. must wait till the next iphone sales then we start talking. i am pretty sure that the iphone sales this quarter will go down to the ground

7. taco50 (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 15:58 10 14

I agree it doesn't seem plausible, however it's very impressive if true. If Samsung sells even half that on pre orders they're doing really well.

60. dickwyn posted on 20 May 2012, 09:36 0 1

Isn't that guy a football player from Chelsea

16. remixfa posted on 19 May 2012, 16:54 5 0

either which way, its a huge number.

9. taco50 (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 15:59 16 16

It sold about 4 million opening weekend

19. twenti7 posted on 19 May 2012, 17:09 6 2

Hey guys I've got a great idea! Let's all thumb-down the fanboy because he answered a question with factual information!

In all seriousness tho, I am looking forward to seeing how the Galaxy S III stacks up to both the iPhone's 4s and iPhone XX in terms of sales.

31. Berzerk000 posted on 19 May 2012, 18:49 5 4

Why do you have so many thumbs down just by answering a question? Some of the people here are ridiculous.

40. TROLL.ISAHA (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 21:41 2 0

U must be new here.... apple fans users all ways
Gets thumb down.. .... looks like u are... . Do u ever teas his threads.

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52. Berzerk000 posted on 20 May 2012, 00:04 3 0

I'm not that new, I created an account a couple months ago, but I was lurking a bit before that. I have read his posts, and yes some, if not most, were unreasonable. But still, he just answered a question. It's not like he was bragging about the sales like he has before, someone asked, so he answered without any hint of trolling. If he's being civil, I say be civil to him. If you think otherwise, then you're just as unreasonable as he was.

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70. TROLL.ISAHA (banned) posted on 20 May 2012, 15:40 0 0

a thumbs up from me. True said.....

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44. Doakie posted on 19 May 2012, 22:07 2 1

We're really all just thumbs downing Taco because we all don't like him. He could one day praise Android and the most zealous Android fanboy would still thumbs down him for his past comments. Lol. Just like Anonymous, We never forget.

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71. gallitoking posted on 20 May 2012, 16:20 1 1

In other words fandroids use the thumbdown button as their toy and and not based on its comments itself... thats pretty dumb.. but not surprise

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75. E.N. posted on 20 May 2012, 18:39 1 0

Oh my gosh, what's up with all the we we we i.e. "we never forget". I swear Android is the new cult. Slightly scary

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45. networkdood posted on 19 May 2012, 22:16 2 1

Wow, factual information?? Who would have thought?

27. TROLL.ISAHA (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 17:46 6 1

so Apple pay is low to workers. they love sucking blood out ov human and underpay them..... how sick sad company Apple is..... mmm knowing that really apple a company itself are were born greedy.

32. E.N. posted on 19 May 2012, 19:15 2 0

if this phone had a more premium feel unlike all the other samsung phones and didn't have its goofy/plain design, it probably would have done even better.

It's kinda weird though because last week many agreed that this phone was slightly a disappointment. lol, to each his own i guess.

30. Mozarrt posted on 19 May 2012, 18:04 2 3

You do realize Korea is a first world nation and China isn't it. This has absolutely nothing to do about ethics and slavery.

38. taco50 (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 20:54 3 6

sorry but facts aren't remix's strong suit

39. tedkord posted on 19 May 2012, 21:26 4 1

Irony, thy name is taco50.

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42. TROLL.ISAHA (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 21:48 0 1

That recalls me ov

APPLE-ROYALLY™

Taco is a ifan
APPLE-ROYALLY™ is way above him........

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65. remixfa posted on 20 May 2012, 10:23 4 1

every time you use that as a come back, your completely wrong and have no argument, which is why you resort to idiotic insults that have no basis in reality.

Isnt it time for you to run along with your tail between your legs like you do every time you've been proven wrong? (which is daily)

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66. taco50 (banned) posted on 20 May 2012, 10:55 3 2

You just used no argument and instead resulted to personal attacks as usual.

Ironic don't you think?

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53. dsDoan posted on 20 May 2012, 03:55 1 0

An American company (Apple) is outsourcing, because China's labor is cheaper, while our own nation's manufacturing is suffering.

Sounds like bad ethics to me.

64. remixfa posted on 20 May 2012, 10:20 0 1

Most of Samsungs factories are in the phillipines, which is not a 1st world country, and still pays double and triple what apple pays... with benefits like health care and paid vacations. 2 things you will not likely ever see at an apple-foxconn plant.

68. manzl posted on 20 May 2012, 13:52 0 0

yes it does...apple is an american company so it has to pay what amt it pays for us citizen same to chinese ..instead they are using slavery and pay cut to chinese people...

56. ph00ny posted on 20 May 2012, 06:07 0 0

Ironically, Samsung actually has a fab in texas to build parts for Apple.

13. darac posted on 19 May 2012, 16:17 1 3

um..wait no.2, lol..if kinect is the previous fastest selling gadget(8 million in 60 days), what about the iphone 4s and it's 30+ million in 90 days?
iphone is still untouchable, i'm afraid

14. remixfa posted on 19 May 2012, 16:53 7 1

The iphone sold less than 5 million launch weekend. The SGS3 hasnt even launched yet, this is just preorders and its already at almost 10 million. If the enthusiasm keeps up for 90 days, its going to be well more than 30 million.
Before anyone starts any flame wars, let the phone actually launch first.. lol

28. TROLL.ISAHA (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 17:50 0 0

obviously your comparing mainstream basic fashion vs uniqueness....

17. jcpwn2004 posted on 19 May 2012, 16:57 4 0

it's pretty amazing considering the iphone (iOS) only has to compete against itself, while samsung has to compete against hundreds of android phones.

18. taco50 (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 17:03 0 12

Good logic there buddy. iPhone doesn't compete with android????

I'm confused...

22. remixfa posted on 19 May 2012, 17:35 6 1

he is making the same point we have tried to get you to understand for years concerning single device sales. the top iphone has no competition.. if you want the top iphone, you have one choice. the top android phone has competition from all angles within android to split sales with, on top of competition from outside the OS. There is much more competition for an android sale than there is for an iOS sale.

If these numbers are true, they are nothing short of remarkable. I knew the iphone's single device sales fanboy bulletpoint would be overtaken soon, but I didnt think it would happen just yet. I figured it would be the SGS4, so surprise surprise if the sales hold up for the SGS3.

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23. taco50 (banned) posted on 19 May 2012, 17:37 0 17

complete lack of logic as usual

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24. remixfa posted on 19 May 2012, 17:38 11 0

your response reminds me that you have no idea what logic actually is.

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33. leftheodo posted on 19 May 2012, 19:18 5 0

Can you please answer me one simple question? If i was an iOS fan and i wanted to buy an iOS smartphone, what choices would I have?
Cause I'm an Android fan and every time I want to buy a new high end smartphone I have at least 6 or 7 different devices to choose from! This is LOGIC!

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