[jsnell]

Holiday sales are big, they're not bigger than the rest of the year. Samsung were targeting Mobile World Congress in February for the main Galaxy line phones basically from the start (from Galaxy S2).

I was a bit dubious about the benchmarks posted earlier in the thread, for the last decade we're used to Apple having such a long lead that timing didn't matter. But given how hard you're pushing this "it's unfair to compare the currently available phones" angle, I guess the benchmarks are legit and they really have lost the lead.