Customers look at Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S II LTE smartphones on display at a shop in Seoul
Customers look at Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S II LTE smartphones on display at a shop at the company's headquarters in Seoul October 28, 2011. REUTERS

(REUTERS) -- Samsung Electronics expects to beat its 2011 smartphone sales target thanks to brisk sales of its Galaxy smartphones, a mobile executive said on Monday.

We are pinning high hopes...on achieving sales higher than our previous plan, the executive said at a press conference, without disclosing its expected sales figure.

The executive was speaking at a local launch event for the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE.

(Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)

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