SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. has increased its smartphone market share in North America in the second quarter of the year amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a report showed Monday, boding well for the company’s effort to end a slump in its mobile business. South Korea’s No. 2 tech firm accounted [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will introduce five new mobile devices later this week as the company aims to boost its gadget sales amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Samsung will hold the Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday to unveil its latest mobile devices. It will broadcast live starting at 11 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has dropped to the second spot in global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of the year, with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. taking the top spot, a report showed Friday. Samsung shipped 54.2 million smartphones in the April-June period to take a market share of 19.5 [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms on Wednesday lamented the world’s largest tech expo’s decision to hold the event online next year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic as they seek ways to better promote their new technology and products. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced that the Consumer Electronics Show [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the increase in sales of dehumidifiers in recent days thanks to the prolonged rainy season, Samsung Electronics Co. remains unwilling to resume the production of dehumidifiers, raising curiosity about why. In 2017, Samsung stopped the sales of dehumidifiers, which it sold on an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) basis. [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has recaptured the second spot in the Indian smartphone market in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Friday, apparently riding on growing anti-China sentiment in the South Asian nation. The South Korean tech giant accounted for 26 percent of the Indian market in [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Friday its 48-inch OLED TV will hit store shelves in South Korea following the product’s successful overseas launch. LG’s 48CX OLED TV, which will become available Saturday, is priced at 1.89 million won (US$1,570). The 48-inch TV was released in European countries and Japan last [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — British home appliance maker Dyson Ltd. on Thursday launched its new vacuum cleaner with an omnidirectional head for the first time in the world in South Korea as it aims to boost sales here. The Omni-glide features an omnidirectional head that allows consumers to remove dust easily in tight [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s new phablet, the Galaxy Note 20, may be its cheapest 5G flagship mobile device in recent years, industry sources here said Thursday, as the company tries to boost handset sales amid the pandemic. According to the sources, Samsung could release the Galaxy Note 20 with a [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled the 5G variant of its Galaxy Z Flip foldable smartphone ahead of its main launch event next month. The latest device — launched Wednesday night — is a 5G-capable model of the Galaxy Z Flip, Samsung’s vertically bending phone that was first introduced in [...]