Samsung's Incredible Smartphone Ride

Samsung continued its meteoric rise in smartphone shipments last quarter. Last week, the company said that it was selling nearly 500 handsets per minute last quarter. Analysts pegged the total haul at 63 million smartphones shipped in the fourth quarter, a 73 percent increase over the same quarter a year prior. Samsung announced Monday that its signature Galaxy S series surpassed 100 million unit sales. The Galaxy S III, released in May, has already sold 40 million units. How did they do it? Fig...