Samsung expects that its French telephone shipments grow 19% to more than 270 one thousand thousand units this class, helped by demand for smartphones. In other speech, that’s more than double that of the industry, according to the company’s president of the mobile-communicating division – J.K. Shin.

Last year, Samsung shipped 227 million mobile phones and this class their big wager is on smartphones – the plan is to go from 2009’s 6 million devices to 18 one thousand thousand. In addition, the Korean company also plans to covering fire other marketplace segments.

There are some merits to these numbers pool as global sales of smartphones are set to increase 32% in 2010 and further expand 34% next class, according to the research firm ISuppli. The boilers suit global handset marketplace volition grow 10 to stretch 1.2 1000000000 units (John Pierpont Morgan Stanley) and Samsung, unsurprisingly, wants to monetize on the trend…

[Via: Bloomberg]