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Samsung has sold 30 million Galaxy S III devices worldwide

Samsung has reached yet another sales milestone with its Galaxy S III flagship. The Korean giant just announced that it has sold 30 million units of the smartphone worldwide. The number includes the I9300 as well as carrier specific versions offered in specific markets such as the United States, Japan, and Korea and is spot on with earlier expectations.

The above number has been achieved in an impressively quick fashion – the first Samsung Galaxy S III units hit the shelves roughly five months ago. With the upcoming holiday shopping season right around the corner, coupled with the healthy drop of the handset’s price in some major markets, it is all but guaranteed that the number will increase even further, thus cementing the position of the device as the go-to top shelf Android smartphone these days.

BlackBerry no longer Pentagon’s phone of choice

Blackberry phones belonging to senior members of US President Barack Obama's cabinet are pictured just outside the Cabinet Room of the White House

Washington - The Pentagon will no longer retain an exclusive contract with Blackberry maker Research in Motion and has invited companies such as Apple to offer smartphones to its vast work force.

The move, announced on Thursday, comes only days after another government agency, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, said it was dropping the Blackberry device altogether in favour of Apple's iPhone.

The Defence Department insisted it would still continue to work with Blackberry phones and that “large numbers of RIM devices” would remain in use among thousands of military personnel and civilians working for the Pentagon.