Samsung expects global smartphone shipments to increase 50% this year

Xinhua Beijing, May 22, according to Reuters, South Korea's Samsung Mobile show a senior executive said in Thursday that the global smartphone shipments or growth of 50% this year, and promote high-end electromechanical excitation light display (OLED) sales in the next five years strong growth.　　"The demand for high-end display equipment is very strong, and even if capacity expands to seven times times today, we may not be able to meet all consumer demand by next year," said Lee Woo-jong, marketing vice president at Samsung Mobile display at the Reuters Technology summit.　　Samsung said early this week that it would invest in the 2.5 trillion trillion won 2012 years ago to build the world's largest OLED screen production line to meet the demand for strong high-end display equipment. Lee predicts that shipments of mobile devices, such as mobile phones and digital media players, will be increased from 1.9 billion units last year to about 212.2 billion this year. Among them, smartphone shipments will grow from 175 million last year to nearly 50% to 260 million units.