Samsung rakes up Galaxy SII sales, passes 5 million mark

After several unconfirmed reports yesterday, Samsung has come out to say that it has indeed sold a cool five million Galaxy SII phones in just 85 days – a figure that will surely make Apple sit up as it prepares the next iteration of the iPhone in the coming months.

The Korean firm’s good start is achieved before it has even started selling the newfangled smartphone in the United States, one of its key markets. And things don’t seem to be slowing down – in the first 55 days, three million Galaxy SIIs were sold in places like Asia and Europe; the next 30 days saw another two million phones added to the chart. …