But massive globe-trotting success wasn’t instant: The SI sold 20 million, and the SII sold 28 million. It wasn’t until the SIII that the really big numbers came out — Samsung has sold 50 million as of March of this year.
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TopTienMobiel, a Dutch site, tracked the history of the Galaxies in visual form:
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