SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of the Galaxy S22 series, the latest smartphones by Samsung Electronic Co., are gearing up to sue the company for the models’ built-in game optimizing service, which allegedly limits the phone performance, legal sources said Tuesday. The Galaxy S22 series released last month came under intense scrutiny at [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s OLED TV is unlikely to be released by year’s end as the company is demanding that panel suppliers cut their prices below the market price. The tech giant demanded that LG Display Co. set the supply price of 65-inch panels at a level up to 20 [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is widely expected to launch its entry-level Galaxy smartphones later this month in response to the March 8 release of Apple’s new iPhone SE, industry sources said Monday. Samsung’s mid-low tier Galaxy A series is forecast to come in various new models — A73, A53, A33 [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — To embrace user complaints over the slowdown in the performance of the Galaxy S22 smartphones series when game apps are running, Samsung Electronics Co. decided to give users a choice. The company issued a notice through the Samsung Members app that it will update its software to enable users [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it has released its Galaxy S22 smartphones and Galaxy Tab S8 series in South Korea and some 40 other countries, including the United States. On Feb. 10, the world’s largest smartphone maker unveiled its flagship Galaxy S series fitted with stronger chips, eco-friendly features [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. shipped more than four million units of premium OLED TVs last year, double the volume from a year earlier, on steady demand for premium TVs, a report showed Tuesday. The South Korean consumer electronics giant shipped a total of 4.04 million OLED TVs last year, with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean home appliance makers are offering upgrade services for previously sold products as part of their customer lock-in strategy. On Feb. 10, when Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled new Galaxy S22 smartphones, the company revealed a plan to extend its Android OS upgrade policy from three to four years. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. topped global TV sales for the 16th consecutive year in 2021 on increased sales of its high-end TVs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a global market research firm said Sunday. Last year, Samsung Electronics accounted for 29.5 percent of the world’s TV market in terms of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. reportedly decided to use a lower than expected quantity of its own mobile application processor (AP) for its new Galaxy S22 smartphones amid concerns about low production yields at its foundry division. Instead of using its new processor, the Exynos 2200, the tech giant decided to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday released new Bespoke home appliances and the premium lineup of Infinite as part of efforts to expand its competitiveness in the high-end home appliances market. The tech giant said its new home devices, 24 in total, come with enhanced artificial intelligence features that boost [...]