Big seller: Samsung has had nine million pre-orders for the S3 - but you may be waiting for the blue model In the history of gadgets, none has picked up such an army of fans before launch. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has already received nine million pre-orders before launch - even with few people getting to play on Android's latest smartphone until it arrives in the UK on May 29. When the phone arrives, it will instantly become the fastest selling gadget in history, beating out the iPhone 4S's four million units sold in three days. It also tops the first iPad's two million tablets in two months, and the Microsoft Kinect system - which allows you to wave at your television via the Xbox 360 games console - which shifted 2.5 million units in 25 days.
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S3 will be fastest selling gadget in history
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Analysts predict Android usage will swell from an estimated 350million users today to one billion by end of 2013
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Windows Phone continues to sit at bottom of smartphone market as users stick with Apple and Android
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