Samsung aims to sell 25 million Smart TVs this year

Samsung plans to sell over 25 million Smart TVs this year, according to TV business chief Kim Hyun-Suk.

The Korean consumer electronics giant hopes that half its total estimated flatscreen TV sales of 50 million units will be of internet-connected Smart TVs.

Kim told journalists that a new model, the ES8000, with voice-recognition capability in 30 languages, enabling voice commands to switch-off and switch channels, as well as gesture-recognition controls, would be launched by the end of March.