SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it sold four times as many foldable Galaxy Z series phones this year as last year, further solidifying its lead in the fast-growing new smartphone segment. While the South Korean tech giant did not disclose the exact tally, the total sales of the Galaxy [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, said Monday it will show off transparent OLED displays at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week, as part of efforts to present technological innovations that can transform the spaces where people live and work. Among the versatile [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday that it still plans to participate in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) early next month, even though major brands backed out as the omicron variant of the coronavirus drives a surge in infection cases in the United States. Samsung said there is no change [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy smartphones has faster download speeds than Apple Inc.’s iPhone 12 models on local networks in South Korea, a market tracker said Monday. Ookla, which runs internet speed measurement tool Speedtest, conducted a 5G download speed test for major smartphones in the third quarter of this [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has established a special team to spearhead efforts to prop up sales of its mobile phones and electronic devices in the Chinese market, industry sources said Sunday. The new team will focus on mobile devices, consumer electronics and video displays, and will be directly managed by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The prolonged pandemic has significantly changed how people spend their time at home, which became the location for everything from exercise to work. To some, it became a primary place to garden. LG Electronics Inc. has rolled out an automated indoor gardening appliance, LG tiiun, which means “to sprout” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. retained the top spot in the global smartphone market in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday. The world’s largest smartphone maker held a market share of 20 percent in the July-September period, followed by Apple with 14 percent and Xiaomi with 13 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s two biggest consumer electronics companies, will unveil a slew of innovative products at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) set to open early next month in Las Vegas. The two companies are among the approximately 1,700 businesses from around the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The users of iPhone devices, including the iPhone 12 and 13, continued to experience dropped calls even after updating the mobile operating system released by Apple last month to fix the issue, industry sources said Wednesday. An official at LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronic Co.’s shipments of its premium OLED television have surpassed the 10 million milestone in the third quarter since it was released in 2013, new data showed Friday. It took the South Korean TV maker seven years to reach the 5 million sales milestone, but it took only [...]