The number is certainly impressive but Samsung has even bigger plans for this very affordable touchscreen phone. The Star S5230 or the Tocco Lite is supposed to sell in 10 million units by the end of the year and Samsung has 4 month to go and 5 million units to sell. The phone has been available since May and Samsung has been selling it like hot cakes all over the world.

Here’s what Youg-hee Lee, Vice President of Marketing, Mobile Communications Division of Samsung Elecronics, had to say:

We’re very pleased by this success. We see the demand for touch screen phones increasing and we will continue to offer consumers a diverse range of products, supported by unique marketing campaigns

What about you? Are you pleased with your Samasung Star S5230?

via newswire

UK customers will be able to choose a new Samsung phone this May. The Tocco Lite is a touchscreen phone which doesn’t have any 3G support. That’s a weird combination but the whole 3G-less feature will make people change their minds about buying one.

Nevertheless the Tocco Lite or the Samsung S5230 will offer you the following:

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity
• 3 inch TFT touchscreen display with 262K color and 240 x 400 pixels
• TouchWiz UI
• Accelerometer
• Facebook, MySpace and YouTube widgets
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Samsung DNSe 2.0 music technology
• FM Radio with RDS
• 3.2 MP camera
• 50 MB of built-in memory
• microSD card support, up to 8 GB
• 104 x 53 x 11.9 mm

All we need now are some prices and we expect the Tocco Lite to be available for a great price since it lacks that important 3G support.

via Pocket-lint