Samsung has announced its latest financial figures, the company made an operating profit of 6.27 trillion won, around $5.9 billion US dollars in the second quarter of 2012, which is up 79 percent on the same time last year.
The increase in profits is mainly down to the popularity of Samsung’s Galaxy range of smartphones, which have contributed to around 60 percent of their revenue.
Samsung shipped a total 93 million mobile phones in quarter two of 2012, and the now have a 25.7 percent share of the world mobile phone market and have taken the top spot from Nokia who were previously the world’s largest mobile phone maker.
Source BBC