The Android-based Galaxy S from Samsung has dethroned the iPhone in Japan. Sort of. The headlines are based on just one week of sales during the last week of October, and may represent just pent-up demand. The other proviso is the Samsung device defeated the 16GB iPhone and the 32GB iPhone individually, but not together.
The iPhone has held the No. 1 position in the gadget-hungry nation for more than 18 weeks. Samsung hopes to sell 10 million Galaxy S phones by the end of the year. The device with a four-inch screen launched in the U.S. this summer.
Earlier, a rumor that Verizon would begin selling the iPhone on November 9 was refuted after readers said a supposed announcement that the carrier would begin shipping an “iconic device” actually referred to the Android-based Samsung Continuum. The new Galaxy S device includes a ticker and smaller Super AMOLED screen.
