Exhaustive legal battles and a weak consumer electronics market failed to hurt the bottom line of Korean tech giant Samsung, which will deliver an impressive set of preliminary first quarter results later this month.
Last week the company reported sales estimates of around 45 trillion Won ($A38 billion) for the January to March 2012 period, up from 37 trillion Won in the previous corresponding quarter.
Operating profit almost doubled from just under 3 trillion Won in Q1 2011 to around 5.8 trillion Won.
Net profit and total product units sold will be revealed when Samsung's full results come out on April 27.
The company has released a slew of products in Australia over the last few months, including the Series 9 notebooks, Galaxy S II 4G and Galaxy Nexus smartphones, Galaxy Note smartphone-tablet hybrid, as well as the Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet and controversial Galaxy Tab 10.1.
The latter is the centre piece of an ongoing patent law suit raging in Australia and throughout the world between Samsung and rival Apple.
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