The recently announced Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Mega 6.3 are extremely polarizing devices. You either hate that the company continues to make larger phones, or you’re excited that you no longer have to pick between owning a smartphone or owning a tablet since you can now have both products in one device.
According to DigiTimes, Samsung has placed orders for 5.8 inch LCD panels from Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Giantplus Technology to the tune of 1 million units a month. That’s not an insignificant number. To give you some context, the original Galaxy Note, the 5.3 inch smartphone that everyone laughed at, launched in October 2011. Five months later, in March 2012, the company announced that they managed to sell 5 million units. That’s a million units a month, on average.
For Samsung to be ordering one million panels a month says they expect sales of Mega 5.8 to perform at similar levels of the the device that gave birth to the “phablet” product category. Mind you, there will be additional products on sale at the time, namely the Mega 6.3, the Note II, and the 5 inch Galaxy Grand, which technically isn’t a smartphone/tablet hybrid anymore since the Galaxy S4 has a similarly sized display.
