After Record-Setting Week, Samsung Predicts 70 Million GS6/GS6 Edge Sales

From DailyTech: It's been precisely a week since Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) launched the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. And while it's early it's been a wild -- and record setting ride thus far -- the kind of story that will surely comprise a seminal chapter when the story of Samsung is someday written down in the rear view.

The story of the duo is a unique and yet all too familiar narrative of complacency formenting a bitter failure which would ultimately come to pave the path to redemption. Unveiled in March, Samsung had hoped desperately that the radical redesign of the Galaxy S6 (GS6) and S6 Edge would free it from the stormclouds bred by the Galaxy S5's sales fizzle.

Now after keeping quiet amid building buzz, some executives at Samsung has joined the crowd of optimistic voices, with one even predicting record-setting sales of 70 million GS6 and GS6 Edge smartphones.

After managing to sell 10 million Galaxy S4s (GS4s) in just a months and 40 million GS4s in the device's first 6 months on the market, hopes were high about Galaxy S5. However, many fans were delivered when rumors of a metal body redesign proved false and the true GS5 turned out to be a relatively unambitious upgrade over the previous generation.

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