Samsung Galaxy S3 has received over 9 million pre-orders

Samsung’s latest version of its flagship phone has received over 9 million pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone from more than 100 global carriers in just a week after it was announced according to the  Korea Economic Daily.

These sales are quite staggering, the Samsung Galaxy S3 took around six months to sell 10 million phones and 11 months to sell 20 million,” according to the MailOnline., This looks like it could be a match for the iphone 5 which is likely to be released in a few months time. Apple at the moment are predicting poor Q3 results, due to people waiting until the iphone 5 get released.

The phone will first go on sale on May 29 in Europe and then it will be slowly released  to other countries around the world. The US is set to receive it on June 1 and it will be available on all carriers.