SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. announced that it will open up free laundromats and mobile service centers in the parts of Turkey recently devastated by a series of earthquakes. The company has set up some 120 washing machines and dryers at eight temporary shelters in Mersin and Tarsus. LG will deploy [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has updated its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital assistant Bixby, enabling users of its new flagship Galaxy S23 smartphones to talk on the phone by typing messages in situations where it’s difficult for them to answer the phone. Samsung announced on Thursday that it had added the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is actively using a Chinese mobile game to highlight the performance of its latest Galaxy S23 series. The South Korean tech giant recently installed “Genshin Impact,” an online role-playing game from Chinese video gaming company miHoYo, on the Galaxy S23 devices it displayed at its domestic [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartphone release, the Galaxy S23, is gaining sensational popularity, while interest in foldable phones seems to be fading. Consumers are placing more value on the high performance of the new product than the utility obtained through foldable phones. Despite the advantage of having a large [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it has showcased non-fungible token (NFT) artworks on its next-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs at an art exhibition in the United States. The firm has partnered with American sculptor Barry X Ball to exhibit his artworks, including a 39-second-long [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s Brazil office on Monday (local time) unveiled an online store-dedicated discount policy to promote the recycling of old home appliances. The new program, dubbed EcoTroca, provides a discount coupon to consumers who return old home electronics as a way to encourage their disposal in a proper and sustainable [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday its new flagship Galaxy S23 smartphones set a new preorder record on its home turf. Preorders for the Galaxy S23 series, launched in early February, amounted to 1.09 million units, with the luxury Ultra model being the most popular. The world’s largest mobile phone [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s display industry is facing strong headwinds due to the global economic slump, but automotive organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, for which demand is surging, are emerging as a silver lining. This year’s global shipments of automotive displays are expected to exceed 200 million units, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it aims to broaden the use of eco-conscious materials to all its smartphone products in the coming years. The world’s largest smartphone maker said it plans to use recycled plastic materials in all its new flagship Galaxy smartphones and stop using plastics in packaging [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s newest Galaxy S23 flagship smartphones set a new record in India for the number of pre-orders in a single day. Raju Pullan, senior vice president of Samsung India, said that the number of pre-orders for the Galaxy S23 reached 140,000 units just 24 hours after its [...]