Samsung has announced that its Galaxy S II smartphone has reached a new milestone in South Korea. They’ve sold over 5 million Galaxy S IIs in their domestic market to channels and distributors in just nine months of its launch.

Samsung says Galaxy S II is one of the few phones in Korea to reach such a milestone and has been enjoying decent sales since its launch.

Samsung’s Korean smartphone market share stood at 53 percent for 2011.

The phone / tablet hybrid devices sales are pretty good, going by the numbers released by Samsung today. The Korean giant has shipped over a million units since its launch in late October. Galaxy Note has been received well in both Europe and Asia but countries like France, Germany, Taiwan and Hong Kong have shown a steady rise.

Samsung also confirmed to launch the mobile device in one of the world’s important telecommunications market – United States. There’s no word on the release but the launch there will help Samsung to accelerate the sales.

Samsung has announced that they’ve surpassed mobile phone shipments of 300 million handsets this year. This is a huge achievement because Samsung is the second company to do it after Nokia and its first since Samsung Electronics start making cell phones in 1988. In short, Samsung sold about 820,000 handsets each day this year.

Samsung acknowledged the fact that Galaxy S and Galaxy S II made them a worthy competitor in the smartphone space and also an important player in the 4G LTE market which grew by 33 percent in Q3 2011.

Samsung’s first major milestone came in 1996 when its total shipments exceeded 1 million and continued thereafter with 100 million in 2005 and 200 million handsets in 2009.

Samsung hasn’t divulged the smartphone figures but is expected to easily surpass its sales estimates for this year.

There’s no surprise that success of Galaxy S made Samsung a very important player in the smartphone arena. Now the company has announced that the original Galaxy S and its successor, Galaxy S II have passed a new milestone. Samsung has managed to sell over 30 million units of both Galaxy S and S II (cumulatively).

The numbers reflect for the sales all over the world with the Galaxy S taking 66 percent of the total share with 20 million handsets and Galaxy S II about 10 million.

Speaking of the latest generation Galaxy S handset, Galaxy S II is the fastest selling smartphone in Samsung’s history that broke 10 million sales figure in just 5 months.

Samsung’s TV Apps Store has reached a new milestone. The TV-specific App Store surpassed 10m app downloads in September and about 11m till date. Clocking in about 50,000 app downloads per day, the TV Apps Store consumption has doubled since the App Store’s last milestone of 5m in May.

Amongst the apps, YouTube, Maps, Accuweather, Vimeo and vTuner Internet Radio remained at the top of the charts globally whereas localized apps ruled in different regions like NDTV Convergence in India, Lovefilm in UK, Berliner Philharmoniker in Germany and more.

Samsung TV Apps Store now has a selection of over 1000 apps and has been organizing app developer contests to lure devs to create apps for their Smart TVs.

Admittedly, not as fast selling as Samsung’s Android phones but the bada-powered range is inching towards an important sales milestone. By end of October / November, Samsung’s Wave series sales will cross over 10 million units.

The Wave range was launched in May last year with the introduction of S8500 and since then they’ve launched six other bada devices. The new ones which includes Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y are expected to be launched in the last quarter of this year.

Samsung’s power packed Android phone has crossed the iconic sales figure of 10 million units. Samsung confirmed that they’ve sold more than 10 million units of Galaxy S II in about 5 months, making it the fastest selling Samsung device. Previously, the record was held by Samsung’s Star phone (S5230) that crossed the same sales figure in 6 months.

Galaxy S took about 7 months to reach the same milestone.

Region-wise, Samsung has sold 3.6 million Galaxy S IIs in South Korea, 3.4 million in Europe where France, Germany and Russia and other 10 countries contributing to the sales and 2.3 million in Asia.

Samsung’s fastest selling Galaxy S II smartphone has surpassed yet another milestone. Samsung has confirmed that its current flagship has crossed a sales of 5 million units. Although this number reflects the units shipped to channels and operators, it is impressive nonetheless.

Samsung says Galaxy S II managed to achieve this feat in less than 3 months, 85 days to be precise and is on its way to hit the 10 million mark pretty soon.

Samsung hasn’t shared individual region numbers but said that it managed to garner 56% market share in South Korea last month and has been on the top spot in more than 10 European countries.

Samsung surpassed yet another milestone by selling 3 million Galaxy S II units globally. Samsung is currently selling (supply basis) one Galaxy S II in every 1.5 seconds and has managed to achieve this milestone in just 55 days, which is 30 days less than Galaxy S II’s predecessor, Galaxy S.

Although Samsung is touting a great surge in European sales, Samsung’s home market has contributed close to 1.44 million handsets.

Samsung has announced that their 2011 range of Smart TVs has crossed sales of more than 2 million units. Smart TVs offer a new user interface called as Smart Hub that allows users to socially connect with their friends, browse the internet, play games etc.

Samsung managed to sell these TVs in under 3 months and to equate, the Korean TV manufacturer is selling about 15 units per minute and about 22,000 units per day.

Region-wise Samsung has sold 730,000 units in North America, the world’s largest TV market followed by Europe with 710,000 units, 170,000 TVs in Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa and 120,000 TVs in Korea.