The marketing campaign that Samsung has adopted for its mobile phone division, as well as most other electronics divisions, has been to basically flood the market. As of September 2012, Samsung has unveiled many new products to the electronic world, including new mobile devices. Some of the items that have been released recently include: “updates to some of Samsung’s best-selling existing models such as the Galaxy Note as well as new product launches such as Series 5 and Series 7 Windows 8 tablets and a ATIV S Windows Phone 8 smartphone,” (Trefis Team). It is worth noting that the high number of recent releases from Samsung could be in accordance with the company attempting to deflect a portion of the negative media attention that fell to it after the lawsuit that Apple filed against Samsung for stealing their patent on phone software, however it appears that Samsung is following its strategy of continually offering its consumers more and more options in the world of mobile communications. The impact of the court ruling could have a monumental effect on the mobile phone division of Samsung and on the entire Electronics division as a whole. In the past year, Samsung’s market share of the Smartphone market increased dramatically. From the 2nd quarter of 2010 to the 2nd quarter of 2011, Samsung’s market share jumped from 18% to 36%. This success can be attributed, in large part, to the Galaxy S III. The Smartphone sold over 10 million units in a timeframe of fewer than two months. This has lead to Samsung taking a large lead over Apple, in the 2nd quarter of 2012. However, the patent win by Apple threatens to put Samsung’s recently found success in serious jeopardy. Currently, Apple has filed an injunction that would ban eight different Samsung devices from being sold in the U.S. because of patent-infringement. Though the devices are not necessarily the backbone of Samsung’s mobile products, as they include mostly older products that are approaching the end of their product cycle, this precedent could become a much larger issue, as it is just the first of many injunctions to follow. Apple has already made plans for a similar case to be filed that would target some of the newer Samsung products including the Galaxy S III. A ban on a product as successful as the Galaxy S III could seriously jeopardize all of the progress that Samsung has made in gaining a larger share of the Smartphone market (Trefis Team). The issue of losing one of its key products looms largely on Samsung’s mobile phone division, however the company has acquired multiple platforms for operation in the Smartphone market. Currently, Samsung produces Smartphones that run on multiple mobile operating systems. The operating systems include Android, Windows Phone 7, Bada OS (Samsung developed), and webOS (HP developed). This approach is much more diverse than other companies in the mobile phone market that tend to focus on a single system and work within it such as Apple with its iOS or RIM’s BlackBerry system. This approach can be seen in two potential views. The first, is that Samsung does not know if Android (the system that has seen Samsung’s highest selling products) is going to be successful in the long run, or that the company is simply trying to diversify the potential platforms that it has a foothold in incase one of the lesser known mobile phone operating systems should become wildly popular with the consumer base (Nguyen). Regardless of the provider that Samsung endorses the highest, there is one other glaring problem that the company must address beside the lawsuit with Apple. Samsung has consistently received negative reviews and feedback on its customer service. Customer Service Scoreboard, a website that takes user reviews on a company’s customer service program and ranks the comments, areas of interest, and overall quality of the customer review program, has found that Samsung’s program is overall “Disappointing.” The site ranked Samsung as “#373 out of 583 companies that have a CustomerServiceScoreboard.com rating with an overall score of 31.52 out of a possible 200 based upon 1128 ratings,” (“Samsung Customer Service”). The negative comments ranked at 93.88% of total comments received about the customer service system, and on the scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is the worst and 10 is the best) of ranking Issue Resolution, Reachability, Cancellation, Friendliness, and Product Knowledge, the company’s highest mark was in Friendliness at 3.4 (“Samsung Customer Service”). To continue in a successful manner, especially when one its top selling product’s future is jeopardized, the company must address the way in which it deals with customers in the customer service field.