Samsung, LG each sell more than 20 mln touchscreen phones

(ATTN: CHANGES slug, headline; INCORPORATES with story slugged LG
Electronics-touchscreen handsets; TRIMS)
SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., the
world's No. 2 and No. 4 makers of mobile phones, each reported Sunday that sales
of their touchscreen handsets have surpassed 20 million units.
Samsung and LG have increasingly introduced mobile phones with touchscreens,
which can detect the presence of a touch within the display.
Both companies reached the 20-million milestone about two years after they began
selling such products.
The global market for smartphones with touchscreens is expected to triple to 500
million units in 2012, compared with an anticipated 170 million units this year,
industry data showed.
(END)