Good news for Galaxy Note 3 as predecessor tops 30 million

40 million Note smart phones sold so far
Go back two years and Samsung was launching a
rather odd product at IFA - the original Galaxy
Note smartphone, a phone so big (at the time)
many people laughed off its chances of success.
Accelerate back to the present and those
naysayers are eating their hats after Samsung
revealed it shifted 10 million of the original
phablet, and a rather more impressive 30 million
of its successor, the Galaxy Note 2.
Eyebrows were raised at TechRadar too when the
original Galaxy Note arrived with its S Pen stylus
(not, as a certain Marc Chacksfield called it, the
Pen S - that just sounds rude), but the larger
screened device grew on us with smooth
operation and an impressive display.
This is all good news for the recently launched
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 , the latest installment in
the Korean firm's super-sized handset range,
sporting a 5.7-inch display, quad-core processor,
3GB or RAM and 13MP camera. On paper at
least, it looks set to be a strong seller.
Sony looks to tackle Samsung
Will Samsung flaunts its latest sales figures Sony
wants to remind you that it's still a big player in
the smartphone game, with Digitimes reporting it
plans to shift 65 million handsets in 2014.
If Sony manages to hit that figure it would signal
a 55% increase in sales over 2013's projected 45
million units shipped, and would further cement
the Japanese firm's place in the market.
Sony has recently launched the Xperia Z Ultra
and Xperia Z1 at the top of its range and it's
hoping these flagship products will see the money
roll in and the phones roll out.