2010 LG-Samsung bet on Android

After the phone market share increase last year, Samsung and LG will re-add the target in 2010. The two companies will rely on the Android platform.

Samsung is locked in second place behind Nokia reported to have sent 227 million handsets, well past the previous forecast of 200 million units for 2009.

Samsung will ship the planned target of more than 18 million smartphones this year.

Samsung is also producing mobile phone memory chips, LCD and TV, has passed through a Hewlett Packard electronics firm in sales last year. Google Nexus One

"Our Finance at the global level," said president and CEO of Samsung, Choi Gee-sung in a meeting with shareholders. "We have become world-class company."

Motorola also forecast sales growth will get a cell phone with a plan to achieve 19% growth this year with sales of 140 million units.

Most South Korean companies in 2009 reported the results on Friday (19 / 3) and as a strategy for early demonstration of shareholders and employees.

Samsung and LG are left in smartphone sales, but both have vowed to attack the market aggressively the U.S. and elsewhere.

Motorola's approach differs from that Samsung plans to build their own operating system Bada, while Motorola has said it will not launch the operating system itself.

Both companies rely heavily on Google's Android platform. Samsung and LG hopes to take the smartphone market share from Motorola, but the U.S. company that had returned with the launch of the new Android handset.

Although the two companies combined represent approximately 30% of the overall handset market, but the two companies only capture 5% of smartphone market