SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is expected to use its own developed mobile modem chips capable to support CAT6 (LTE modem). According the industry, the System LSI division of Samsung is producing modem chip Exynos Modem 303. Modem chip is one of the system semiconductors and a core part for smartphones transforming radio frequencies [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Public Broadcasting DMB Commission announced on August 19 that, among video application net users, 1,764 used YouTube and 1,438 used DMB, based on a survey from January 2014 to July conducted by Nielsen KoreanClick. It means that Korea’s smartphone users mostly use YouTube and DMB video apps. Only [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, a tip became the talk of town that a wet smartphone can be easily resuscitated by an electric rice cooker and can be recovered with this simple remedy. The tip is that when a wet smartphone, with its battery detached, is dried up by practically using the rice cooker’s function [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Broadband will begin its service of up-scaling full HD video contents into ultra HD images with its proprietary solution offering UHD experience with existing full HD videos for the first time in the industry. Korea’s second-largest broadband Internet service provider in terms of the number of subscribers plans to offer Hollywood [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Paynow Plus offered by LG Uplus seems to lead the online payment service market. On August 13, LG Uplus announced that it launched a new online payment service, which met the strict standards set by the Financial Supervisory Service in terms of authentication and payment processes, security and safety, and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) —LG Uplus announced on August 10 that it is launching a new TV commercial for its “LTE Live Broadcasting” service, which allows users to broadcast video feeds from the smartphone to their living room in real time for the first time in the world. LTE Live Broadcasting is the world’s first [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Video contents consumption through mobile devices including smartphones and tablet computers quadrupled during the last two years, according to a recent study. Still, Koreans depend much on TVs to watch videos but they showed a tendency to use mobile devices together with TVs. According to a report by the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it will roll out the “G3 A,” its unique edition of LG Electronics-developed premium smartphone “G3,” on August 8. The SK telecom-launched new edition is designed to be more compact than the original G3 — from an original 5.5-inch display to 5.2-inch one — to be able [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is losing its power seller status in the lower-end smartphone market in China pushed back by local smartphone providers led by Xiaomi. According to Business Week on August 5, Xiaomi ranked first in the smartphone market in China beating Samsung by quoting a report of market research firm Canalys. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Pantech, Korea’s third-largest mobile handset manufacturer after Samsung and LG, petitioned to the President following its appeals to three mobile telecom service operators for help. The Council of Pantech’s Partner Companies said on August 5 in a statement addressed to President Park Geun-hye, “We implore you to consider our predicament. Without [...]