SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Google said Thursday its new image-based search feature for premium Android smartphones, including Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest Galaxy S24 series, will be launched later this month. The new function, named “Circle to Search,” will be available to users of Google’s Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Samsung’s Galaxy S24 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 young smartphone users in their teens and 20s opted for an Android phone as their initial smartphone, but over half of them eventually transitioned to iPhone smartphones. According to the report by industry tracker Counterpoint Research, about 85 percent of Korean smartphone users under the [...]
BOSTON, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — MicroEJ, leading provider of software containers for IoT and embedded devices, today announced the availability of Android Compatibility Kit, connecting global electronic things manufacturers to a fast-growing ecosystem of Android Studio and associated developers. This new release consolidates MicroEJ’s positioning as the “tiny sibling of Android” for small and [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Audio-based social networking service Clubhouse will launch on Google’s Android operating system in South Korea this week, its U.S.-based developer Alpha Exploration Co. said Tuesday, in a move to expand its growing user base. While the app had previously been available only on iPhones, the company said it will [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator has launched an investigation into anti-competitive practices of the dominant mobile operating system (OS), its chief said on Wednesday. The remarks by Joh Sung-wook, the chairperson of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), are seen as a warning against Google’s dominant Android mobile OS, KFTC [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Following Apple Inc.’s recent decision to support its newest smart device operating system, iOS 14, on older generation iPhone models dating back as far as six years, controversy has reemerged over Android smartphones, which have a shorter duration of technical support. Consumers say that a flagship smartphone model costing [...]
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — FIDO Alliance announced today that Android is now FIDO2 Certified, bringing simpler, stronger authentication capabilities to over a billion devices that use this platform every day. With this news, any compatible device running Android 7.0+ is now FIDO2 Certified out of the box or after an automated Google [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile payment system, Samsung Pay, boasted 8.86 million users in July in South Korea, making it the most popular Android-based financial app, data showed Tuesday. According to the data compiled by industry tracker WiseApp, Samsung Pay saw its number of users move up 53 percent from [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean users of Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile payment system Samsung Pay reached nearly 7 million in February, an industry tracker said Tuesday. According to the data compiled by WiseApp, some 6.94 million users of Android-powered smartphones used Samsung Pay at least once last month. WiseApp [...]
SEOUL, Nov.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Market research company Wiseapp publicly disclosed the results of a nationwide survey of 23,000 Android OS-based smartphone users on October 31, which revealed YouTube has overtaken messaging app Kakao Talk as the most used service. The results of the same survey that was conducted last year had Kakao Talk in [...]